Blog 5 Cuckoos Nest

The hospital did cause Bromdens problem not his past. His paranoia is from the way the hospital treats the patients. He sees more then the other men do because they think he's deaf. He gets to hear behind the scenes information when he cleans the back room while the staff talks because they think he can't hear him. Which is probably why he is so paranoid. He gets a glimpse at the truth that is destroying all of the patients. They say that Bromdens paranoia and his mental instability is due to the war. They are saying that his issues are from shell shock and that things he saw and went through during the war. I argue that the ward is responsible for his "problems". He also is treated differently because he is thought to be deaf. Hes is neglected and I think that the things they say right in front of him that they think he cant hear, the hurtful things, definitely effect him and probably causes paranoia as well. When he hears them all talking about giving lobotomy's or how they think the patients are close to nothing that would most definitely effect anybody. Nurse Ratched is messing with all the men in the ward. Of course Bromden has some effects from the war. He has seen things that most can't even imagine, but the way he is treated in the hospital caused the damage he suffers from. If Bromden never went to war his paranoia might not be as bad, but is he never went to the ward his paranoia wouldn't be as bad either. Nurse Ratched tortures these men. In the very beginning of the book they force Bromden into the shower and they force shaving on him. He went into the "fog" and probably does has the more vivid and crazy hallucinations because how terribly he is treated and that could be his brains way of trying to make sense of what is going on. He also pictures the nurse as a combine machine in the beginning of the book with multiple metal arms. He feels this way because of how controlling she it towards everyone. When the black boys are walking towards him he tries to disappear into the wall trying to hide from the men when they are trying to force him into the shower, that's how he is coping with the way he doesn't have a say in how his life runs anymore. Having no control over your own life would take a toll on you without a doubt and because of that Bromden is worried about everything all the time as he should be.