Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Free Bird
Through out this novel the patients have been refered to as birds and loons. When first reading I understood this to have a negative connotation and mean crazy. But as the term continually arose I thought it had to have more significance. I then thought about how birds are also a symbol of freedom because of their ability to fly. If this is representative of the patients, do you think Kesey is hinting at the fact that the patients also have the ability to fly and be free?
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I've been having a hard time understanding why Mac chooses to call the men birds, but I've never thought it was supposed to be derogatory. However, your comment about the fact that perhaps Mac means to tell the men that they can be free makes a lot of sense to me. Since our last reading, when Mac tried to lift the controll pannel, it's been really apparent how much he wants the men to try to free themselves. I also think that becasue a bird is animal, Mac views the men as men and not as machines...so there is still hope, and by him calling the men on the ward birds, it lets the audience know that there is still hope for them to escape the combine's power.
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