1. Context:
This excerpt is from "One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest" by Ken Kesey. His book focuses on the oppressive American society in the 60's . In this scene McMurphy learns that most of the patients on the ward are not committed but voluntary. This passage is important because McMurphy realizes that he needs to play by the nurses rules, in order to leave the ward. He also realizes, that he is the only one that she is truly in control of.
2. Themes/ Characters:
Themes:
- Big vs. Small=> X-Ray machine
- Perspective vs. Perspective (friend vs. buddy=> juxtaposition of language)
- Living vs. Apathy=> McMurphy realizes that most of the patients are voluntary and therefore don’t oppose to the way they are being treated (apathy)
Characters:
a. Harding
- Leads the conversation
- Speaks in a condescending way to McMurphy because he knows he has valuable information for McMurphy
- Uses repetition of entire phrases
b. McMurphy
- Unsophisticated diction
- A change happens, he suddenly realizes how the ward works, and that he is one of the few committed patients
- He takes a while to understand what is going on
- Harding is in full control until McMurphy suddenly realizes
a. Characteristics are being:
- Expressed (shown)
- Reinforced
b. A change is happening
Motifs-> Symbols:
- Control panel
- Machinery
Quotes:
1. "Everybody moves down a place. Martini comes away from the X-ray machine, buttoning his shirt and muttering, "I wouldn’t of believed it if I hadn't saw it," and Billy Bibbit goes to the black glass to take Martini's place. (Big vs. Small)
2. "No. You've got ore to lose than I do, my friend." (Perspective vs. Perspective=> Buddy vs. Friend)
Friday, 25 September 2009
Monday, 7 September 2009
My Modest Proposal-Outline
Global Issue: Africa the failed Continent
Africa is a failed continent because Europe messed it up in the past
Since Africa is treated as an effectively failed continent, and one which the West seems to ignore, we should use this useless space for the disposal of our garbage and thus eliminate the problem of waste accumulation in wealthy countries . This solution would solve Europe's garbage (also nuclear waste) problem and the people in Africa would not be worse off than they are today.
Outline
1. Introduction
a) Africa is a failed/ doomed/ useless continent
b) It causes the world many problems and is a burden to the west
2. The Problem
a) The west is facing a global issue of increased waste products
b) The world needs to find a solution to deal with the rising amounts of garbage that are being produced
3. A solution
a) Africa is a useless continent anyways
b) Africa=> the failed continent
c) To make use of it, the west should just turn the continent into a huge garbage dump
d) This way Europe (the west) would get rid of its garbage, and in due time the useless continent of Africa would just sink into the ocean and their problem of poverty and hunger would be solved
e) There seem to be no objections to this idea, because millions of people are dying of starvation and genocide (deliberate extermination of a ethnic group) and corruption in Africa today and no one seems to care anyways
f) This way the world could assign the useless continent and job that in due time will save them from their own misery and will benefit the rest of the world
g) Africa would also stop overpopulating our planet
h) The west could harvest all of the valuable resources prior to turning it into a garbage dump
i) Clearly this would be a win win situation
j) Unlike Iraq there is no oil worth defending (oil is a long term extraction project and would therefore justify international intervention)
4. Conclusion
a) Something needs to be done about the rising issues that Africa is causing
b) Win win situation=> everyone would benefit
c) Create awareness about the inhumane situation that Africa is in
Africa is a failed continent because Europe messed it up in the past
Since Africa is treated as an effectively failed continent, and one which the West seems to ignore, we should use this useless space for the disposal of our garbage and thus eliminate the problem of waste accumulation in wealthy countries . This solution would solve Europe's garbage (also nuclear waste) problem and the people in Africa would not be worse off than they are today.
Outline
1. Introduction
a) Africa is a failed/ doomed/ useless continent
b) It causes the world many problems and is a burden to the west
2. The Problem
a) The west is facing a global issue of increased waste products
b) The world needs to find a solution to deal with the rising amounts of garbage that are being produced
3. A solution
a) Africa is a useless continent anyways
b) Africa=> the failed continent
c) To make use of it, the west should just turn the continent into a huge garbage dump
d) This way Europe (the west) would get rid of its garbage, and in due time the useless continent of Africa would just sink into the ocean and their problem of poverty and hunger would be solved
e) There seem to be no objections to this idea, because millions of people are dying of starvation and genocide (deliberate extermination of a ethnic group) and corruption in Africa today and no one seems to care anyways
f) This way the world could assign the useless continent and job that in due time will save them from their own misery and will benefit the rest of the world
g) Africa would also stop overpopulating our planet
h) The west could harvest all of the valuable resources prior to turning it into a garbage dump
i) Clearly this would be a win win situation
j) Unlike Iraq there is no oil worth defending (oil is a long term extraction project and would therefore justify international intervention)
4. Conclusion
a) Something needs to be done about the rising issues that Africa is causing
b) Win win situation=> everyone would benefit
c) Create awareness about the inhumane situation that Africa is in
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