Foreshadowing

Today I’m blogging about foreshadowing in one flew over the cuckoo’s nest. How ken Kelsey tells the storey through chief and the way he words it as well. Using the texts itself I am able to see loads of foreshadowing by ken as chief describes what he’s seeing. Like McMurphy for instance how chief can see what’s going to happen to McMurphy has he rebels and disturbers the ward, trying to get Miss. Ratchets “goat”.  Also when chief was in the staff meeting listening to the staff talk about McMurphy and what they are going to do with him, and miss. Ratchet realizing what she needs to do to deal with him. Foreshadowing through chief on what’s to come for poor McMurphy and his pride. Chiefs himself expressing his thoughts foreshadowing himself like for example listing to McMurphy and rising his hand up and being pulled out of the fog. And with miss. Ratchets looking like she has won and defeated McMurphy and restating her power to all the other patients. The best example i can think of from the texts is when McMurphy realizes what’s in store for him if he kept on the path he was on being committed not a volunteer. On the start of part two joking about being committed and how it was better than jail. Then at the end when he realizes after talking to the life guard what being committed really meant.

Connecting what I’ve learned so far and connecting to myself hmm. Well I guess I can connected to my first ISU book the kite runner and the fact that the book it basically one big ironic foreshadow. In the kite runner the main charter “Amir” does a number of questionable things. That both the reader and Amir can see coming back to bite him the ass. Much like chief looking at what McMurphy and realizing how what McMurphy is doing will also come back and bite him the ass. In thinking about it I guess I can also connect to myself as well. In that when I was in high school I could tell not doing my homework and any school work really would come back to haunt me. Not fully understanding the full ramifications of my actions at the time. I now look back and realize with real world/life experience that I was a complete dumb ass. That I should have put at least a little effort into my schooling and made my life a lot easier. This is also perceived in McMurphy with him hooting and hollering and just generally just trying to make miss. Ratchet mad, with him knowing what could happen. It’s not till later that he realizes the possible consequences of his actions after talking to the life guard.

And finally to the world or in my case to the American election and the Mr. Romney and the foreshadowing the American press have done. How they have predicted his craziness and ultimately his demise. The world can only hope that the crazy backwards man doesn’t get in. Anyways the way they showed how Romney kept changing his standing and his policies on the hot topics of the election and then pretending that he never said anything to contradict himself even though there videos of him saying different. This is in line with how miss. Ratchet chances her stance on the hot topics to please to doctor and possibly the patients. Then the minute she gets the chance changes everything back to the way she likes and wants it to be.  

In the end I guess foreshadowing is really that “gut” you get when you read something and wonder why, why is it there? Is there a reason for it, the answer is almost always yes there is and it up to you to figure it out!