One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Chapter 11
Chapter Eleven: The Nest of the Missel Thrush
“‘Dickon,’ she said, ‘you are as nice as Martha said you were. I like you, and you make the fifth person. I never thought I should like five people.”
I think the fact that Mary has so rapidly collected a group of people she likes is a good indicator of how rapidly she is gaining happiness. Children like everyone, usually, because children have this glow about them that makes them cheerful to everyone and everything.
“Then Mary did a strange thing. She leaned forward and asked him a question she had never dreamed of asking anyone before. And she tried to ask it in Yorkshire because that was his language, and in India a native was always pleased if you knew his speech.
‘Does tha’ like me?’ she said.” …show more content…
Mary, for as long as she has been alive, has been used to others wanting to please her.
She has never once worried about if someone liked her, because she herself never had any reason to like anyone else. These past few chapters have shown how quickly that has changed, because she is now asking if someone else likes her. Not only that, but she is trying to take into consideration how it might make another person feel if she were to do something to accommodate them, for lack of a better word. This shows me that she is turning into a happier person with healthier social habits.
Chapter Twelve: “Might I Have a Bit of Earth?”
“‘Oh!” cried Mary, ‘is he going away tomorrow? I am so glad!’”
Even though she is glad for a reason that may seem selfish, I think that her excitement shows relief in the fact that she doesn’t have to fear someone will take the secret garden away from her. If the garden were to be taken away from her, she should believe she’d have nothing to be happy about anymore and would be extremely upset that her special happy place was gone.
“‘Might I,’ quavered Mary, ‘might I have a bit of earth?’”
A child who is used to getting everything she wants was just offered anything her heart could possibly desire. She turns down dolls, toys, and books, and instead asks for just a small plot of land to call her own. Mary has the secret garden already, but asks for permission in the cleverest way. I believe this shows just how much she truly cares about the secret
garden.
Chapter Thirteen: “I Am Colin”
“The robin pleased him so much that he smiled until he looked almost beautiful, and at first Mary had thought that he was even plainer than herself, with his big eyes and heavy locks of hair.” Colin has only heard of the robin so far, and already the bird is lighting up the young boy’s soul. This boy has been in a room for all of his life, throwing tantrums and getting anything he wants, much like Mary had before she moved to Misselthwaite, but now he is already beginning to feel lighter.
“‘Dickon,’ she said, ‘you are as nice as Martha said you were. I like you, and you make the fifth person. I never thought I should like five people.”
I think the fact that Mary has so rapidly collected a group of people she likes is a good indicator of how rapidly she is gaining happiness. Children like everyone, usually, because children have this glow about them that makes them cheerful to everyone and everything.
“Then Mary did a strange thing. She leaned forward and asked him a question she had never dreamed of asking anyone before. And she tried to ask it in Yorkshire because that was his language, and in India a native was always pleased if you knew his speech.
‘Does tha’ like me?’ she said.” …show more content…
Mary, for as long as she has been alive, has been used to others wanting to please her.
She has never once worried about if someone liked her, because she herself never had any reason to like anyone else. These past few chapters have shown how quickly that has changed, because she is now asking if someone else likes her. Not only that, but she is trying to take into consideration how it might make another person feel if she were to do something to accommodate them, for lack of a better word. This shows me that she is turning into a happier person with healthier social habits.
Chapter Twelve: “Might I Have a Bit of Earth?”
“‘Oh!” cried Mary, ‘is he going away tomorrow? I am so glad!’”
Even though she is glad for a reason that may seem selfish, I think that her excitement shows relief in the fact that she doesn’t have to fear someone will take the secret garden away from her. If the garden were to be taken away from her, she should believe she’d have nothing to be happy about anymore and would be extremely upset that her special happy place was gone.
“‘Might I,’ quavered Mary, ‘might I have a bit of earth?’”
A child who is used to getting everything she wants was just offered anything her heart could possibly desire. She turns down dolls, toys, and books, and instead asks for just a small plot of land to call her own. Mary has the secret garden already, but asks for permission in the cleverest way. I believe this shows just how much she truly cares about the secret
garden.
Chapter Thirteen: “I Am Colin”
“The robin pleased him so much that he smiled until he looked almost beautiful, and at first Mary had thought that he was even plainer than herself, with his big eyes and heavy locks of hair.” Colin has only heard of the robin so far, and already the bird is lighting up the young boy’s soul. This boy has been in a room for all of his life, throwing tantrums and getting anything he wants, much like Mary had before she moved to Misselthwaite, but now he is already beginning to feel lighter.