Lit Log #3 - Inside & Out For Bromden [Q2]

In the cuckoo’s nest, the mentioning of war and the implications it had on certain men intrigued my interest. For a man to come out of a war and be deemed “ok” as moments prompt us of the time period the book is set in. So the representation of fog makes for an abundance of visual material to work with as there is so much to be said about the fog. It could be the state of his mind being full from the pills & drugs. But I see so much that could be created from this scene as there is a calming bliss to it in my opinion. So the research I did on fog told me that fog is a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air. ”Which I decided to go with a faded or not so drawn representation of the background because in his “fogged state of mind” everything he knows is suspended. But the things he sees in the fog as he tries getting past the pill’s effects makes for him to only end up in more fog which is why I put the machinery and control panels Bromden has seen through his times in the war and the ward which produce the combination in the art piece. We see as he doesn’t feel strong as he drifts in the fog that the ward has placed in the vents as the staff makes for reality to be shifted. Even as he wants to be above everything, he’s not there yet. That’s why I added his mind falling in the fog because of the ward’s readiness for him. “The numbers Murphy, THE NUMBERS ” this was something I acknowledged very early in the book as his involvement in the military was major. His mind is still there like it’s a switch, you can go there and be in the fog or be in reality as if you’re still lost in the world. So I added the split of activity in his brain, one side being in World war 2 still and then there is the careless nothingness of the ward. Two different worlds but they seem so far apart as there is no stopping his mind from wandering. More precisely as he’s stuck in the tradition of receiving the medicine and being gone he’s still the key to change. I included change in the visual piece because Mcmurphy is the one thing throwing the course of normalcy off as everything changed when he did. But Bromden picks this observation up as he doesn’t know what the staff may do with him and that’s why I included a blurry aspect that differs from the fog because you can see through fog, but you can’t see if your vision is just blurry.

The sounds of hysteria come full fledged that open up to an unknown kind of tension as everything isn’t meant to be ok. As the quote mentions this moment reading, “ The trouble was I’d been finding myself because I got scared of being lost for so long and went hollering so they could track me.” The combine has made him morph even as must get out. He looks at the option of fooling around, he looks to welcome the trouble bound to him. But things you try to figure out you can’t because you’re back to where you originated which is the fog. All that Bromden wants is to wake up fine but even as he doesn’t know how he survives he still doesn’t get to rock bottom even as he takes over his mind.