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Context:
- Before this scene, McMurphy talks with the other patients about the nurse, and how the patients are all "kissing her ass".
- Says that the Nurse has no control over him
- In this scene, McMurphy finds out that most patients are voluntary except him and some of the chronics and Scanlon.
- After this scene, McMurphy finds out that one has to be nicer to the Nurse, because she has the control over him and when he lives.


Themes:
- Self-sacrifice vs. Self-interest
○ " you have more to lose than I do…I'm voluntary. I'm not committed"
- Perspective vs. perspective
○ "you, Billy -must be committed for Christsakes!"
○ "McMurphy doesn’t say a word. He's got that same puzzled look on his face like there's something isn't right, something he cant put his finger on"
- Control and Oppression
○ Control: the nurse has the control over McMurphy and when he has the right to leave the ward

Character:
- McMurphy
○ Change: finds out that he is one of the few that have been committed, and can’t chose when to leave the ward
- Harding
○ Is using this opportunity to be the bigger one
§ Motif: big vs. small
□ "No. You've got more to lose than I do, my friend"
® Condescending
- Billy Bibbit
○ Not committed either, being "big"
§ "standing on tiptoe"

Motifs:
- Big vs. small
○ The individual characters
○ The machinery:
§ " Martini comes away from the X-ray screen, buttoning his shirt and muttering, I wouldn’t of believed it if I hadn't saw it"

What drives the text?
- Language:
○ "like there's something isn't right…"
§ Unsophisticated language of McMurphy
§ The grammar is incorrect, there is a word missing
○ Tone of Harding:
§ Sophisticated
§ Condescending
§ Teasing
○ Tone of McMurphy
§ Unsophisticated
§ Harsh
§ Scared/confused
- Structure
○ The paragraphs are made when there is a change of character speaking, or if someone is in action
○ When the tone changes from Harding to McMurphy
- Imagery
○ "McMurphy walks up and down in front of that bench, running his hand around in that thick hair"
- Rhetoric
○ Repetition:
§ " You've got more to lose than I do"
§ "Are you bullshitting me?"