midterm - quote analysis + ddm

"A mistake was made somehow in manufacturing, putting those big, womanly breasts on what would of otherwise been a perfect work, and you can see how bitter she is about it”

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Why is it significant?

Chief says this about Nurse Ratched

Yes. This is what I know. The ward is a factory for the Combine. It's for fixing up mistakes made in the neighborhoods and in the schools and in the churches, the hospital is. When a completed product goes back out into society, all fixed up good as new, better than new sometimes, it brings joy to the Big Nurse's heart, something that came in all twisted different is now a functioning, adjusted component, a credit to the whole outfit and a marvel to behold. Watch him sliding across the land with a welded grin, fitting into some nice little neighborhood where they're just now digging trenches along the street to lay pipes for city water. He's happy with it. He's adjusted to surroundings finally.... (40) "

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Chief says this

"We need a good strong wolf like the nurse to teach us our place." (Kesey 64)

Harding says this to McMurphy

"You're safe as long as you keep control" (Kesey 73)

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Harding says this to McMurphy, explaning that McMurphy can’t diectly challenge the Nurse because she holds more control and power

I can't do nothing for you either, Billy. You know that. None of us can. You got to understand that as soon as a man goes to help somebody, he leaves himself wide open. He has to be cagey, Billy, you should know that as well as anyone. What could I do? I can't fix your stuttering. I can't wipe the razor-blade scars off your wrists or the cigarette burns off the back of your hands. I can't give you a new mother. And as far as the nurse riding you like this, rubbing your nose in your weakness till what little dignity you got left is gone and you shrink up to nothing from humiliation, I can't do anything about that, either. At Anzio, I saw a buddy of mine tied to a tree fifty yards from me, screaming for water, his face blistered in the sun. They wanted me to try to go out and help him. They'd of cut me in half from the farmhouse over there. (137)

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Chief says this when Nurse forces Billy to talk about his past

It's too late to stop it now. McMurphy did something to it that first day, put some kind of hex on it with his hand so it won't act like I order it. There's no sense in it, any fool can see; I wouldn't do it on my own. Just by the way the nurse is staring at me with her mouth empty of words I can see I'm in for trouble, but I can't stop it. McMurphy's got hidden wires hooked to it, lifting it slow just to get me out of the fog and into the open where I'm fair game. He's doing it, wires... No. That's not the truth. I lifted it myself. (152) What is the context of this quote?

Chief says this

Oh Dale, you never have enough, do you?" (184) What is the context of this quote (who said it and when?) What motifs do you see?

Why is it significant?

Harding’s wife says this. She is emasculating Harding

"But I tried though," he says. "Goddamnit, I sure as hell did that much, didn't I?” (125)

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McMurphy says this

DDM structure

topic sentence, context, analysis, conclusion

DDM prompt: Much of Am. Lit is connected or relates to the American dream, which is often associated w/ sucess. In the passage what conclusion does the narrator come to about the American Dream?

How would you approach this question? How does sucess relate to the american dream? pos/neg views?