She inhaled sharply at the short compliment, the innocent and soft smell of the wildflowers mixed with the chilled air meeting with her nose, and exhaled with a small giggle. ... Elisabeth looked into his eyes, her own becoming wide with torture and insanity. ...
Salinger, when Holden Caulfield tells his story from inside the mental hospital, there is a good chance treatment he is receiving is affecting the way the theme and tone of his story turn out. In the 1950s, mental institutions around the country quickly filled as every slight problem with a person was viewed as insanity. ... "By 1959 only 12% of admissions to mental illness hospitals were compulsory, and the trend was towards shorter periods of in-patient treatment and towards outpatient treatment. ... Even though Holden continually talks bad about himself, most of his memories have symboli...
The story begins with Randall P. ... McMurphy is coming from the state prison where he is serving a five-year sentence, but has been feigning insanity to get out of the prison work detail. ... While at a first glance one might consider this to be simply a fine entertaining piece of filmmaking, showing us the adventures of a rebellious free spirit in a mental ward, it's story goes much deeper, for we have only scratched the surface. With the film of the story of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", Kesey holds a mirror to our society and the images we see reflected back are of a dark, o...
Each short chapter focuses on an aspect of her experience, and these are arranged in chronological order, so as to tell her story of the people she met and the treatment she received. ... What is insanity? ... The characters are round, colorful, and vividly blunt, giving the story its open and upright themes of sanity, human nature, insecurities and fears, as well as the longer journeys we all mistakably take in life. ...
