1. Cuckoo’s Nest Visual Project Ideas—due 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 wall—Oregon, 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) Harding’s hands as doves Ol’ Pete Bancini’s 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. Unnatural—most important metaphor?)

5. Jake Carlson

6. Choose a metaphor— Floor drops & walls raise (Chief’s 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 chickens—pecking party cruelty (Amundson) Billy as baby; Ellis as Jesus (Stowater) Bottle drinking out of Chief’s dad Nurse Ratched bleeding cigarettes out to the men (Suurmeyer) Playable tribal drum, signifying Chief’s 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