OFOTCN - narrative voice

Question 1

Narrative voice - explanation

Answer 1

• Bromden is superficially erratic, describing things that aren’t there
• actually reliable and perceptive of what is around him
• becomes increasingly clear as the novel progresses

Question 2

Examples

Answer 2

• “black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them.”
• “I looked out the window and saw for the first time how the hospital was out in the country.”
• “the culls of the combine’s product, the chronics. Not in the hospital these to get fixed, but to keep them from waking round the street giving the product a bad name.”