Cuckoo

1
Cuckoos Nest Visual Project Ideasdue Wednesday,
10/21

• Do your best to portray this immaculately
  imagistic novel.

2
Options for nonlinguistic representations

• Drawing
• Painting
• Sculpture
• Welding
• Cartoon/Graphic novel
• Short film that shows a metaphor/vision/symbol
• Series of staged/significant photographs
• T-shirt
• Collage
• Flipbook

3
Choose a metaphor

• Nurse as a searchlight beam
• Nurse as a spider on web of wires, catching
  wrapping men up
• Republican Party as butter (Col. Matterson)
• Mexico as a walnut (Col. Matterson)
• Fog men floating Chief hallucinating
• Chief going into landscape painting on the
  wallOregon, Columbia River, Nature
• Nurse sending blizzard at Mack Mack resisting

4
Choose a metaphor

• Fog machine encompassing Chief (T. Nelson)
• Mack as sperm whale
• Martini flying his bomber plane (plane
  control panel)
• Hardings hands as doves
• Ol Pete Bancinis hand as iron ball with arm as
  chain
• Black boy sniffing around for Chief, like some
  hound of hell with glowing eyes
• Dog under the geese, collarless, that gets
  demolished by the car (Natural vs. Unnaturalmost
  important metaphor?)

5
Jake Carlson
6
Choose a metaphor

• Floor drops walls raise (Chiefs hallucination
  in which Blastic dies)
• Factory, combine with doll-faced workers
  (mannequins)
• Blastic hung by his ankle cut open, rust and
  dust and parts falling out of him
• Meeting where the bosses spew visual sludge that
  Chief can see
• Men, people, students being harvested by a
  Combine that cuts them down, processes them, then
  spits them out (Minihan)

7
Choose a metaphor

• Nurse Pillbow scrubbing her birthmark off and/or
  bathing in her crucifix
• Men as rabbits, fearful and with long ears and
  big teeth
• Men as trophies or mounts on the wall, defeated,
  killed, displayed
• Men as lambs
• McMurphy punching through power (glass) to obtain
  cigarettes (Pueppke)
• Black boy as menacing jack-o-lantern (A. Brown)

8
Choose a metaphor

• A literal portrait of any character
• Black boys as hounds with glowing, searching,
  menacing eyes
• Nurse as wolf men as chickenspecking party
  cruelty (Amundson)
• Billy as baby Ellis as Jesus (Stowater)
• Bottle drinking out of Chiefs dad
• Nurse Ratched bleeding cigarettes out to the men
  (Suurmeyer)
• Playable tribal drum, signifying Chiefs heritage
  and recurring dream (Egge)
• Mack punching through a glass Ratched (Carlson)

9
Choose a metaphor

• Nurse Ratched as puppeteer others with limbs
  connected (I. Nelson)
• All men as dice Nurse shakes and rolls them,
  then controls their fates (gambling theme)
• Nurse as life-sucking vampire (Alexander)
• Fog as protective blanket for a child

10
Choose a metaphor

• Chief dunking basketball
• Chief tossing black boy, who weighs 10 or 15
  pounds to Chief because Chief has grown so much
• Mack as Jesus
• Broken glass baptizing the earth