Quotes

I hide in the mop closet and listen, my heart beating in the dark, and I try to keep from getting scared, try to get my thoughts off someplace else-try to think back and remember things about the village and the big Columbia River, think about one time Papa and me were hunting birds in a stand of cedar trees near The Dalles. ... But like always when I try to place my thoughts in the past and hide there, the fear close at hand seeps in through the memory. I can feel that least black boy out there coming up the hall, smelling out for my fear. He opens out his nostrils like black funnels, his outsized head bobbing this way and that as he sniffs, and he sucks in fear from all over the ward. He's smelling me now, I can hear him snort. He don't know where I'm hid, but he's smelling and he's hunting around. I try to keep still. ...

(Papa tells me to keep still, tells me that the dog senses a bird somewheres right close. We borrowed a pointer dog from a man in The Dalles. All the village dogs are no-'count mongrels, Papa says, fish-gut eaters and no class a-tall; this here dog, he got insteek! I don't say anything, but I already see the bird up in a scrub cedar, hunched in a gray knot of feathers. Dog running in circles underneath, too much smell around for him to point for sure. The bird safe as long as he keeps still. He's holding out pretty good, but the dog keeps sniffing and circling, louder and loser. Then the bird breaks, feathers springing, jumps out of the cedar into the birdshot from Papa's gun.)

The least black boy and one of the bigger ones catch me before I get ten steps out of the mop closet, and drag me back to the shaving room. I don't fight or make any noise. If you yell it's just tougher on you. I hold back the yelling. I hold back till they get to my temples. I'm not sure it's one of those substitute machines and not a shaver till it gets to my temples; then I can't hold back. It's not a will-power thing any more when they get to my temples. It's a ... button, pushed, says Air Raid Air Raid, turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me, hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. My sound soaks up all other sound. (1.121-23)



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Film Scene Analysis

Analyse how the director has created particular feelings in the audience through the use of camera shots, sounds and acting.

        In this extract from One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, we see a very powerful scene from  the movie. In thsi scene we can see two main parts, when Billy talks to Miss. Ratched and dies, and also when McMurphy hangs nurse Ratched. Milos Forman (director) creates an intense talk between Billy and Nurse Ratched by always pointing at Billy's face after she says something about telling her mother what he did. We can see how Billy's face seems to be more woried everytime and also that he starts to stutter more and more. At the beginning Billy seems to be very confident because he knows that his friends are with him, but then he starts to feel more insecure and the leads him to commit suicide. 

        In the other scene, we see Nurse Ratched telling to the patients to remain calmed. but that is when McMurphy jumps on top of her and hangs her almost to death nut then Warren comes in and punches Randle on the back. We see the facial expression that McMurphy has when he is hanging her and also her face. That tells us that her power is corrupted and that patients are going to be different now, they will be more free-spirit and much more brave. 

   In conclusion, we as audience feel that this scene is a breakthrough in the story because before everythinh was happiness and now chaos is ruling in the ward. I think that after this scene only negative things happen that might change our point of view for this movie and book.

Beat Generation HW

1. Name some important Beat authors.
*Jack Kerouac
*Clellon Holmes
*Herbert Huncke
* Lucien Carr

2. Where did the Beat Generation culture originate primarily?
The Beat Generation originated in New York around 1948

3. How was it seen by the general public?
Normal people saw the Beat Generation as a criminal act because of the massive use of drugs

4. What did it offer the nation?
It was an anti-academic movement, they wanted to offer new formalistic literary ideas.

5. Describe the main characteristics of Beatniks. Can you find any images or video clips to support your description?
 "far out of the mainstream of society" this was a media stereotype of the time that was based in propaganda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVOXxDV5BdI

6. How do you think the Beat Generation have influenced our present culture?
I think that the literary techniques that were created at that time are useful tools for writers now a days. I also think that this was a great way for people to achieve a social skill and this was the breakthrough for  personal opinion over other people that are more important.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation