Leadthership and teachings blog # 3

After reading part 3 of one flew over the cuckoo’s nest i find that i am liking the book more and more as i discover who  the characters are and specially how mcmurphy changes and his personality develops. In the ending of part 2 we see that mcmurphy has had enough of listening to the nurse and seeing the other patience depressed and he breaks her glass window so he sacrifices himself because he may have to stay in the ward for a long time. in part 3 we can look deeper into it and we see how this represents that mcmurphy is taking back the control and he will lead the patients so they have a little bit more freedom and they can show their masculinity and a leader will usually sacrifice himself for the benefit of the group. Mc Murphy leads the men by disobeying the policies that the nurse has and when a new window is placed he accidently breaks it again, we can see how mcmurphy has succeeded in some lvl to lead the men because later on when the third glass window is placed mcmurphy does not break it, one of the other patience has broke it, so we see here that mc Murphy is giving the men a guideline for them to follow so that they can be more free. We also see how mcmurphy leads the men because when they go to a fishing trip and stop for gas, the guys at the gas pumps are giving the patience a difficult time and embarrassing them so mc Murphy takes the lead and says that they are crazy physcopaths and when the gas guys get scared the patience see this as a source of power so thanks to mcmurphy leadership the men have confidence in themself because they are crazy, so mcmurphy really thought them to embrace who they are as males and as crazy people. Another point of mcmurphy being a good leader and teacher would be when they are on the boat and they have caught a big fish, the patience don’t know what to do so they scream for mcmurphy to help but he just laughs at them and he does this so they do it without his help because he is not always going to be there. lastly mc Murphy has thought the men to laugh at their bad luck or at bad situations because laughing is better than crying or hiding those feelings so when they are mad or in a bad situation laughing will help them, and he thought them this on the boat when they were fishing and an accident happened.

I find that i like to take the role as a leader on some situations like sports or presentations, and i always try to make the decisions that will benefit the whole group instead of just benefiting me. But now that i think about it i am a little bit like mcmurphy because i mostly take leadership if i am comfortable with the group for example in a sport that i know how to play i will lead my team mates but in a sport i don’t know how to play i will doubt myself and may not take the lead automatically, we see that mcmurphy feels like he is very masculine so he does not care and is comfortable dominating a woman in most situations.

I find that we have a lot of people that like to take the lead in the world, and that is why we have different people running for president but we have so many leaders and only one position that it is difficult to chose the best person for the job, i also think that leaders take on a big responsibility because they decide what is best for everyone they are leading and they are also partially responsible for the actions of the people lead.

use of power

In part 2 of the book one flew over the cuckoo’s nest we see the reaction of the big nurse for mcmurphys outrageous actions about voting for the baseball game. The big nurse is very angry that she lost control of the men by the influence of mcmurphy so she uses that anger and her position of power to decide the future of mcmurphy. Everyone in the ward is intimidated by the big nurse, including the staff members and when they suggest to remove mcmurphy from her ward everyone things is a great idea but as soon as the big nurse disagrees everyone will do what she says. The big nurse also knows that  mcmurphy has already ‘damaged’ the other men by making them more confident with themselves so she has already lost power of them  mentally and if mcmurphy is transferred she is admitting defeat and that will give the men even more confidence. The big nurse is also very smart and because she is angry with mcmurphy she knows that she is able to control his future and that she can keep him as long as she wants. The big nurse uses her power of authority to control the ward and everyone in it, everyone knows this except mcmurphy, but later on when the patience are taken to the pool he learns of the power the nurses have so immediately he adjust his behaviour and he actually started doing useful things and be extremely nice, and this is exactly why the nurse didn’t want to send him to another ward because she knew that at some point he would figure out that she decides how long he stays and he would change his behaviour.  we see how everyone is affected by the amount of power someone has and that people will listen to authorities if it is beneficial to themselves 

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The way that mcmurphy acts until he learns the power that the nurse has reminds me of how some people have acted towards me when i had the power to decide their future. One of my friends learned that i worked at goodlife so she started to buy me lunch and to help me with assignments and school stuff but i knew that she was acting weird so i asked her why she’s doing all does things and she asked me if i could get her an interview because she also wanted to work there so i said yes and when she had the interview and i put in a good word for her she stopped doing all the extra things. I really think it was unnecessary for her to do all the extra things because i would have help her anyway, but i automatically saw how people act differently when they need something and someone else has power over  their future.

I also think that the nurse’s power can be seen to represent the people that work for the government like presidents or governors. These power figures that we have in our society take the final say on what is decided and that’s why companiess or people bribe government figures so that the power figure change the laws to do what the company want because otherwise company would not give money to the government for no reason, its only based on the company’s own interests.

insanity??

I think that this book is very interesting, and that a big part of the reason for this book is to make the reader think about what is insanity and sanity. This topic makes me think of what really is insanity and who determines it? I really believe that everyone is a little crazy but in society a person that is considered to be insane is someone that is too different from society, or someone that stands out too much, but to be honest in my opinion I find that it is better to be a little different and crazy than to be completely ‘normal’ and not have anything special about one self. Nobody in this world is made the same and nobody has exactly the same personality as someone else, and I think we should embrace that instead of suppressing it and we should try to be more different form each other instead of all of us trying to be the same, and we shouldn’t be making all the insane or different people that want to remain the same go to a medical center but we should analyse them and maybe be a little bit like them. I personally like to be different and I like to stand out of a group, I love all of my crazy habits, the way I think and my personality and i think people like me because i am different. I also find that people naturally want to be different but they are afraid of what people would think of them, but they don’t realise that the people that judge them also want to be different but are afraid to be judged as well. people also like to explore places and go on adventures and things because they like different atmospheres and they like to experience new thing, but i think that society is very boring in the aspects of what humans are supposed to be  like and they are supposed to act, i would rather be around a crazy person than a normal person because i can figure out what the normal person will do but what the crazy person will do is completely unknown. I guess it depends of the person, for me i like to be adventurous and i really try to do something new each day, but some people like to remain doing the same thing and like to stay in there comfort zone and for them that is perfect and its what they like to do and there is nothing wrong with that. I really try to tell people to express who they really are because nobody can do it for them, and that if you want to act a certain way or dress a certain way to do it because is there life. Even do I believe in these things I also belief that one should not do things only for one’s self but to keep in mind other people and not to hurt them, to think before they act. So I guess I’m contradicting my thoughts a little, but in conclusion there should be a valance of doing what you want even do people might think is insane but also keep others in mind so that you are not hurting them.