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Quotes From 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's'

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One quote that made me feel is the quote, “The real impact is measured in the widows left behind, the children who will never know fathers or mothers, the names of the fallen etched changed” (Bay Area News Group). This quote makes me feel upset that the children don’t even know their family and get left behind. One quote that makes me think is the quote “‘ Over time, the pain gets a little better, than a moment will strike you when it’s as strange as it ever was… and it’s as if you just heard it,’” (Chapman). This made me think how hard it must to be keep being reminded the lost of someone near and dear to your heart, and I can relate with my own family. One quote that made me wonder is the quote “ … where there were more troops, more deaths, more headlines” I was wondering why was there more deaths, troops and headlines. …show more content…

She was widow at 22.” (Bay Area News Group). This quote proves how war can lead to many deaths of soldiers and cause toll on their wife's,brother,mother,dad,sister, etc. Another quote that proves that war is a crime is the quote “ Thousand of U.S. troops injured and nearly 1,700 dead, not counting the death of Afghan civilians and U.S.coalitions partners”(Bay Area News Group). This quote proves how many soldiers didn’t come back and the emptiness it causes to their

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Furthermore, he stated that those who would find killing a human difficult or wrong are the same who would find killing a deer difficult or wrong. However, the deaths of fellow soldiers also weigh on the psyche of the writers. Even though some speak of the death of a friend rather nonchalantly, there are many that appeared to have been greatly affected by their friend’s death and dedicate a large piece of their letter to the death. On the whole, the letters offer a wide-ranging view into the soldier’s minds and how the war affected them as individuals.

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Throughout the book, Brett reveals himself as a tough, hero willing to do anything such as defending and protecting patrols overnight. Not until later in the book, Jack (member of Brett 's squad) was injured and taken to Dr. Morgan 's clinic. He reported that Jack had been severely injured and could not do anything about him because of the mass amount of internal bleeding. At that point, Jack explained that it was Brett and his squad who set the people in the tent on fire. Herb and the committee waited for Brett to arrive and he confessed it.

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The Origins of Madness in One Who Flew Off The Cuckoo's Nest The book, One who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey, is an eccentric story on the cruel treatment of patients within psychiatric wards in the 1960s. It is told from the narration of an indigenous man, named Chief Bromden, a character who is deeply conflicted and wounded inside, as he narrates the story of another patient McMurphy. McMurphy is not like Chief, nor any of the other patients for that matter, for he is a man who refuses to follow the wards rules and does whatever it takes in the book to strip the head nurse, Miss Ratched, of her power, in a fight for the patients, sovereignty within the ward. His rebellious attitude unfolds and the consequences begin unveiling

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Soldiers typically lacked sympathy for what they went through from society ignoring the trauma they brought back from the Vietnam War. The following quote from the article presents the thought process of most soldiers to us: “By forgetting, he said he could prove that he was strong and could master his anxieties… by remembering, he felt he was admitting that he was weak and no longer in control” (Penk and Robinowitz 3). The previous quote shows how the soldiers felt that forgetting made them appear strong rather than letting their emotions weaken them, and this is why we see a soldier’s inner conflict as they force themselves to remember in the poem. In this quote from the poem the soldier has come to the monument for remembering those who passed in the war and as he looks at those names his first thought is: “No tears.

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Talking about the fallen soldiers also brings up the emotions that Webster has been affirming so far in the

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Do you know how much people can lose in a war? Lots of things like homes, lives, friends, and other things of importance. Like the child in the poem, “In Response to Executive Order 9066” by Dwight Okita. This is about a girl whose whole life was changed severely due to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Soldier are not the only ones that are affected by the wars that occur in the war.

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“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

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Comfort is provided in saying “Your loved ones were daring and brave, and they had that special grace, that special spirit that says, ‘Give me a challenge and I’ll meet it with joy’” (Reagan). He praises their loved ones to banish any negative thoughts of cowardice and pain. He brings comfort in the form of acknowledging that their loved ones were impactful, intelligent, and courageous heroes while submitting to a tone of grief yet also pride.

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When will I see them again?” (11). This quote supports the theme, "War hurts the innocent” because Salva represents the innocent worrying about his family. This really shows the connection between wars and that they hurt the innocent because Salva doesn't know why the war came to him, making him an innocent kid. I think this quote really starts to show

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Moral Lense Literary Analysis of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest The 1950s, the context of which One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a novel by Ken Kesey, was written, was called the Era of Conformity. During this time, the American social atmosphere was quiet conformed, in that everyone was expected to follow the same, fixed format of behavior in society, and the ones who stand out of being not the same would likely be “beaten down” by the social norms. In the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Kesey argues that it is immoral for society to simply push its beliefs onto the people who are deemed different, as it is unfair and could lead to destructive results. First of all, it is unjust for people who are deemed unalike from others in society to be forced into the preset way of conduct because human tend to have dissimilar nature.

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soldiers are constantly dying in wars many of them never return home. Many of the soldiers never return home for proper burial or even to be properly identified. The family never gets to see their loved one again. Their loved ones were never told by a doctor that their time was near. They were not one last chance to say “good-bye” or “I love you”.

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The inability to communicate their losses and their pain is not only shown in violence, but a disconnect to their loved ones after coming home. After returning from the war, “they lost sight of how different the Iraq war was in Iraq than it was in the United States. To them, it was about specific acts of bravery and tragedy. The firefight in Fedaliyah--- That was war.

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Furthermore, animals are not seen for their true value and instead of showing empathy towards these animals, humans would rather look at them as trophies or something to brag about. Towards the end of the novel, Deckard finds a toad, one of the most important animals to Mercer and long to be extinct. Deckard says: I'm a special, he thought. Something has happened to me. Like the chickenhead Isidore and his spider; what happened to him is happening to me.

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Reflection on Chapter 7. In this Chapter the author broached the subject of tips and bribery. I had had a little introduction into this subject when Steven Height taught presented this topic in one of my other missions classes, however, Hale puts yet another angle on this topic. I had never thought about tipping a waitress, baggage man, or taxi driver as the same as tipping a customs agent in order to ensure your luggage ended up where you wanted it to.

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(Crane 1-5) The entire stanza is a piece of irony, war is not kind and when a woman's husband dies she should mourn in all rights. Some authors make you think something good will happen and everyone is gonna be okay, but “Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried tranquilizers until he was shot in the head” (O’Brien 8-9) when he was in a village. Even though he might have seemed he went to war it wasn’t on his choose and the reader might have thought that he was a medic and might have done some good until he was killed. Writers use structure as a way to bring about feelings from the reader.

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