One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Kessey
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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Kessey
Hey Guys,
I really loved this novel! I am currently working on promoting it as part of my school's curriculum for next year. In fact, I have been assigned the task to get as many people as I can to vote on weather or not the novel should be included next year. I have created a list of quesitons to guide a discussion on the novel. Your comments and repsonses to my questions will help me give a better presentation and will really boost my grade! Please help me if you liked the book just as much as I did!
1. Did you enjoy One flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? Why or why not?
2. One a scale of 1-5, one being horrible and 5 being excellent, how would you rate the novel?
3. Do you reccomend the book to students?
4. Do you reccomend it as part of their high school curriculum?
5. Please rank the following nine criteria that you find most important in your everyday reading:
CLARITY –The criteria of clarity is a very simple standard of measuring according to which everything that resists reasonably careful reading is considered poor writing.
ESCAPE – If you measure by the criteria of escape, the literary work that causes you to forget yourself and the circumstances of your own life is by that fact good.
REFLECTION OF REAL LIFE – The work that reports actuality in a flawless manner is good; the one that distorts the facts as we know them is bad.
ARTISTRY IN DETAILS – By the standard of pleasure in artistic details, a work is good if it provides enough pleasurable moments through effectively handled details to compensate for the time spent on it.
INTERNAL CONSISTENCY – The problem here is to discover what the relation of the parts is to the whole and to one another. The competent work, presumably, is one in which the parts are so consistent and harmonious that the work as a totality is an organism in which no part can be changed without detriment to the whole work.
TONE – (The emotional quality of literature achieved by language, appropriate form, imagery, words, and rhythm.) The basic premise of those who use the criteria of tone is that a fundamentally significant aspect of a literary work is the personal quality given the material as it is expressed by the language of the author.
EMOTIONAL IMPACT or MOOD (which is distinct from tone; mood is how the reader feels in response to the text) –The basic premise of this criterion is that the most important aspect of a literary work is its effect upon the reader. Its concerns, therefore, are chiefly psychological, and they deal with the type of effect, its intensity, its components, its duration, and its universality.
PERSONAL BELIEFS - By the criterion of personal beliefs, a literary work is considered good if it states or implies ideas that are already congenial to the reader. In considering such a criterion, we could range through the whole gamut of human qualities, for to one degree or another everything we have opinions about affects our judgment. Here we can discuss only those concerns that most radically affect these judgments: morality, religion, politics and economics, philosophy, and literary criticism.
SIGNIFICANT INSIGHTS - The basic premise of those who use the criterion of significant insights in making literary judgments is that literature should be the repository of the best that has been thought and said. In the highest sense, it should be a “criticism of life,” for in making us conscious of the best it provides us with a standard against which we can measure our own thoughts and actions. A work, then, is great to the extent to which it provides us with insight into what is best – what is true, good, and beautiful. To apply these criteria, the reader should consider every aspect of the work to determine what is the totality of its insight into life. The core of the answer is likely to fall in one of four fields – the psychological, the sociological, the ethical, or the metaphysical.
6. Now based on your rankings please rate each criteria (clarity, escape, reflection of real life, artistry in details, internal consistency, tone, emotional impact or mood, personal beliefs and significant insights) in One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest on a scale of 1-5
7. Why did you rank it in such a way?
I really loved this novel! I am currently working on promoting it as part of my school's curriculum for next year. In fact, I have been assigned the task to get as many people as I can to vote on weather or not the novel should be included next year. I have created a list of quesitons to guide a discussion on the novel. Your comments and repsonses to my questions will help me give a better presentation and will really boost my grade! Please help me if you liked the book just as much as I did!
1. Did you enjoy One flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? Why or why not?
2. One a scale of 1-5, one being horrible and 5 being excellent, how would you rate the novel?
3. Do you reccomend the book to students?
4. Do you reccomend it as part of their high school curriculum?
5. Please rank the following nine criteria that you find most important in your everyday reading:
CLARITY –The criteria of clarity is a very simple standard of measuring according to which everything that resists reasonably careful reading is considered poor writing.
ESCAPE – If you measure by the criteria of escape, the literary work that causes you to forget yourself and the circumstances of your own life is by that fact good.
REFLECTION OF REAL LIFE – The work that reports actuality in a flawless manner is good; the one that distorts the facts as we know them is bad.
ARTISTRY IN DETAILS – By the standard of pleasure in artistic details, a work is good if it provides enough pleasurable moments through effectively handled details to compensate for the time spent on it.
INTERNAL CONSISTENCY – The problem here is to discover what the relation of the parts is to the whole and to one another. The competent work, presumably, is one in which the parts are so consistent and harmonious that the work as a totality is an organism in which no part can be changed without detriment to the whole work.
TONE – (The emotional quality of literature achieved by language, appropriate form, imagery, words, and rhythm.) The basic premise of those who use the criteria of tone is that a fundamentally significant aspect of a literary work is the personal quality given the material as it is expressed by the language of the author.
EMOTIONAL IMPACT or MOOD (which is distinct from tone; mood is how the reader feels in response to the text) –The basic premise of this criterion is that the most important aspect of a literary work is its effect upon the reader. Its concerns, therefore, are chiefly psychological, and they deal with the type of effect, its intensity, its components, its duration, and its universality.
PERSONAL BELIEFS - By the criterion of personal beliefs, a literary work is considered good if it states or implies ideas that are already congenial to the reader. In considering such a criterion, we could range through the whole gamut of human qualities, for to one degree or another everything we have opinions about affects our judgment. Here we can discuss only those concerns that most radically affect these judgments: morality, religion, politics and economics, philosophy, and literary criticism.
SIGNIFICANT INSIGHTS - The basic premise of those who use the criterion of significant insights in making literary judgments is that literature should be the repository of the best that has been thought and said. In the highest sense, it should be a “criticism of life,” for in making us conscious of the best it provides us with a standard against which we can measure our own thoughts and actions. A work, then, is great to the extent to which it provides us with insight into what is best – what is true, good, and beautiful. To apply these criteria, the reader should consider every aspect of the work to determine what is the totality of its insight into life. The core of the answer is likely to fall in one of four fields – the psychological, the sociological, the ethical, or the metaphysical.
6. Now based on your rankings please rate each criteria (clarity, escape, reflection of real life, artistry in details, internal consistency, tone, emotional impact or mood, personal beliefs and significant insights) in One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest on a scale of 1-5
7. Why did you rank it in such a way?
