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1) Chief talks about his childhood memories:
a. His large mother who grew bigger than the father and got the combine to swallow him
b. And his father who was worked upon
2) Themes:
a. The Role of Sexuality
i. Characters-
1) Chief
a) Shy, voluntary Indian that keeps quite though keeps up on his surroundings
b) Change- speaks for the first time and says what he believes
b. Control vs. Oppression
i. Characters-
1) Chief
a) Characteristics of chief repeated
b) Change: tells McMurphy that the combine/hospital works on him and McMurphy
2) McMurphy
a) Characteristic: loud, committed, rude, says what he thinks, no respect, talks back
b) Change: suddenly get serious, listens to Chief
3) Motifs:
a. Big vs. Small - father vs. mother
i. Connects to - the role of sexuality
b. Combine - controls everything and everyone
i. Connects to - Control vs. Oppression
c. McMurphy -
i. Character and connects to - control vs. oppression

4) What drives this text ?
a. Size drives this text and how one the father was big, big, big, big, the mother bigger, bigger, bigger, and the combine made the father small, small, small.
b. Language - the dialog
i. Structure
c. Imagery - the small and bigger bigger bigger


4.5) Synecdoche:
a. doctors/hospital (mainly nurse) controls McMurphy is a synecdoche to the U.S.A. trying to control everyone and everything.

5) Language :
a. Syntax - simple sentence structure
b. Diction - unsophisticated language, no high language or word usage

6) Structure:
a. Dialog
b. Two main paragraphs connecting to two main themes
i. Paragraph 1: Role of Sexuality
ii. Paragraph 2: control vs. oppression

7) Imagery
a. Sensory -
i. Hear:
1) Tee Ah Millatoona
2) Soft voice - McMurphy speaking
ii. Sight:
1) He was real big
2) Twice the size
3) Five feet nine and hundred and thirty pounds
b. Figurative -
i. … none?

8) Rhetoric:
a. "Tee Ah Millatoona" onomatopia
b. Listing: "the tribe, the village, the falls…"
c. Repetition: "big" "bigger" "little"
d. Animalism : "real moose"