My Interpretation of Cuckoo's Nest

While reading the first couple of pages in the book, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I was quite annoyed by the author's writing style. I didn't understand the point of the story, until I started to take notes by focusing on the main characters. I learned to read in quiet place so there were no distractions, and I began interested in the text. I found that the author's hallucinations helped me differentiate between what was real and what was fake. The book has become more interesting each chapter especially with the character, McMurphy. I have enjoyed Kesey's use of figurative language throughout the book because it allows the reader to use his/her imagination while reading. Each character is described through imagery and detailed metaphors which makes reading more enjoyable. I know a lot of people in class hate reading this book, but I found that if you take time to read it, the book isn't so bad. Is this book boring and useless for our class to read, or is the book worthwhile learning about emasculating? What does everyone think?

What Cuckoo Published This?

Who would ever think that a novel like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest would ever be published, let alone part of a high school curriculum. The novel begins in an off the wall matter, but does settle. The writing is well done, but the context can be confusing. I have given up rereading sections of the novel to understand a scene because the novel is contradictory. Although it can be difficult to figure out what is real and what is not, I enjoy going with the flow of the novel. The novel is interesting. Even if nothing too interesting is happening in the plot, the writing itself keeps me awake and thinking.
What do you think?

Mean Girls Revisited

While watching the movie "Mean Girls," I found many parts to be humorous. I realized that half of the scenes I was laughing about were true at our school today. There are still girls who will act stupid to get a boy's attention, or girls who will do anything to be popular. In the movie, Caddy, a new student, gets sucked into the world of the "Plastic" life. At first, she joined the group to make fun of the leader, but Caddy ended up becoming fake herself. I have found that many girls at our school try to do anything to become popular, whether it means to change their personalities, leave old friends for popular girls, or to become entirely fake. I thought the scenes were funny in the movie, but to be truthful the scenes were quite desperate. The characters known as the "Plastics" hurt their fellow classmates and teachers by trying to up their status at the school. They made themselves feel better by putting other students down. Girls can be extremely nasty towards one another because they are always in competition with each other. I don't know if this vicious cycle will ever end, but I do know it isn't worth trying to start the cycle. Do people feel that they need to become popular in order to survive their high school years?

WHY

Why is it that a guest (for a dance) if graduated from highschool must have graduated from groves?This is the most frustrating thing in the world to me because as seniors, it is not uncommon to find students who have significant others a year or two older. Can soemone explain to me the logic behind this? Other than the slight chance that my guest may be a serial killer that got expelled from his or her highschool and are now coming to the groves commons (again, i could talk about that for days) to attack our school. Why?

Mean Teeny Boppers

Perhaps many of you will think I am completely oblivious to the true atmosphere of our school when you read this, but I don't find that our school has a "plastic" like clique, or even one dominate clique. When I mentioned this to a friend of mine, she suggested that this was because there is too many egotistical people within the school for one to ever be able to take over the vast majority. We have abundent amounts of beautiful, wealthy and intelligent people in our school, how would we ever pick one?
I like to think that our school is filled with mature young adults who have had plenty of anti-bullying assemblys to thank for the lack of cliques, but I'll leave the decision up to you.
My cousin is going into the eigth grade this year and it's almsost documentary worthy how mean her friends are to each other. It seems like the sterotype of "mean girls" has gone down a few generations to the teeny boppers. But how does this attitude stop at the highschool level?Why?Or does it?

Response to Mom, Doug is a Good Babysitter 10/1

I agree with the fact that our society hasn't reached equality among men and women. Women are still thought of as the care givers that clean the house and prepare meals. Men on the other hand, are thought of as the money maker that is unreliable when it comes to care giving. Men are thought of as being aggressive and dangerous, but this isn't true for all men. I have experienced this with my older brother. When I was a freshman, I didn't trust my brother and accused him of lying all the time. He wasn't reliable, and made stupid decisions that I didn't approve of. I thought my brother would always be that way, and he would never grow up, but I didn't give my brother enough credit. Today, my brother is one of the most trustworthy person I know. He has moved on from being the "typical male teenager" and has showed me that I can count on him with any situation. I hate the typical stereotypes for males and females because it is only directed toward the selected few people of society. People change whether for the good or bad, and they need a chance to show that they can change.