currently reading one flew over the cookoos nest. picking my book back up from where i left off, i'm getting a clearer view on a lot of aspects of this book. i'm getting a lot of ideas and theories. And another thing. I am currently doing possibly one of the worst thing a reader could do. i'm watching the movie, half way threw the book. (don't shoot me ms rear) My problem with reading this book on and off was that i kept forgetting detail like what the main character looked like, what the head nurse looked like, everything i was imagining kept changing until i was left with just some words and it wasn't what the author wanted me to imagine while reading so i felt really bad and i decided that i would watch the movie a bit and get a fair idea. So i'm watching this movie and right off the back i judge everything. how everything starts, who the main characters are. how each person is represented. I knew this would come. i knew i would be judging this movie because no movies are exactly like the book no matter how much we want them to be.
Anyways so i'm watching this and thinking back to project real today when i started thinking about the characters and everything. I was thinking about how this book is written in first person and it only gives this one persons point of view on things. And maybe not everything is like he describes it. For example, he describes all the "black boys" as mean, selfish and cruel. I imagined the asylum as a cell, a tourture zone where nothing was fair everything was dark and scary and death. but then i went to thinking, this is coming from the mouth of someone who has been there for a very long time, doesn't speak, and is in an insane asylum. so i kinda began to think about why this person makes infrences on the people he makes infrences on and all this other stuff. i thought the nurse was mean and her book was explicit i thought it was cruel and a form of violation. however, then i began to think about how i would defend the book. i thought it might be nice, and perhaps okay to discuss the feelings in these people and what they thought. what they're opinions where and seem like they care. unlike how the main character in the book describes it.
I'm noticing that as the 'new guy' spends more and more time with the people in the asylum, including the main character, it might become harder for the main character to pretend to stay deaf because he is getting more attention. I wonder if he is going to keep it up for the rest of the book.
