Post #4 Part II

Part II has a lot of change happening within the characters. The chapter starts with a staff meeting, where the Big Nurse, Doctors and all the Black Boys meet up to discuss the actions of McMurphy. During this meeting, Chief Bromden is allowed to be in the staff room, sweeping the floor, since everyone thinks he is deaf. In the meeting, all the Black Boys think that McMurphy should be send to another Ward, however at the end of the meeting the Big Nurse decides to keep him in the same ward and let him struggle. “I don’t agree that he should be sent up to the Disturbed, which would simply be an easy way of passing our problem on to another ward, and I don’t agree that he is some kind of extraordinary being – some kind of ‘super’ psychopath.” (136) This decision is a surprise to everyone, even Chief Bromden who heard everything that was said during the meeting.
Another change that happened was that Chief Bromden now is able to see the patients clear again, since the fog machine is turned off. This relates to my post I did last time, where I said that the fog machine was a hallucination and not a realistic way of torture. Furthermore, during a night in the institution, Chief Bromden wakes up and sees for the first time out of the window: “I looked out the window and saw for the first time how the hospital was out in the country.” (141) During that same night, it is the first time the author, Ken Kensey uses a reference to birds: “Then they crossed the moon- a black, weaving necklace, drawn into a V by that lead goose.” (143)
Another change, which happens, is with McMurphy and him not standing up anymore for the other patients. For example, at some point Cheswick wants something so bad that he becomes a danger for the ward so he is send to the Disturbed for the day, however McMurphy does not help him out of this situation. During a trip to the pool with the Ward, an accident happens and Cheswick drowns. From this day on, McMurphy changes and tries to become more behaved towards the Big Nurse. This proves that during the meeting at the beginning, the Big Nurse was right to keep him in the same ward until his ice would break.
At the end of Part II, McMurphy apologizes for the first time to the Big Nurse about not behaving. This is the biggest change that McMurphy has gone through, and due to this the other patients will have to change too. I hope that in Part III, there will be more change within the patients and that we find out more information about the past.