FINALLY!

YAY! Today I finally finished my book! I thoroughly enjoyed it; the end left me wanting more, but I think part of the charm of the book is that you never know exactly what happens to Chief. Throughout the entire book you question: sane or crazy? Reality or hallucinations? I think the end of the book is just another one of those questions: will he survive or not? Despite this hanging end, the main conflict of the novel is tied up; the Nurse has lost her inhuman power over the men on the ward, and McMurphy has sacrificed himself on their behalf.  One of the passages I may do for an annotation strongly portrays McMurphy as a Christ Figure; because of this, he had to fall victim to the Nurse while at the same time bringing her down with him, just as Jesus sacrificed himself to cleanse the sins of everyone else. McMurphy sacrificed himself to bring down the Nurse and free the rest of the ward from her totalitarian control. This saddened me a little, but as I said before, it was inevitable.

I had left off blogging for a while in order to get the reading done. Throughout the week I’ll make four more posts on the reading, despite the fact that I’ve finished: One for the rest of part one, and then another one for each of the other parts in the book. My plan of action is to try to have a rough draft for each of my annotations by spring break: one annotation a week. I’ll also be choosing my criticism, as I have several choices and can’t decide between them. Wish me luck!