Letter From Chief Explaining His Intentions and Life after the Breakout

English 4

Alex Merrill

Jeffrey Baker

Response #3

Write a letter from Chief explaining your actions at the end of the film and your motivations for them.  What happened to you after you left?  

Dear Reader, 

I can guess you are probably thinking, “can a deaf and dumb Indian really be writing this right now?” Well, he is. Over the past weeks, ever since Randall has been in my life, I’ve noticed a change within myself. I have noticed that I have started to rely on people, especially Randall, to keep me from breaking out. When I saw him on that bed, shaking him, and then proceeding to talk him, I wanted a conversation, a response at the very least. I did not get anything out of him; he was completely brain-dead. Not only would he not respond, but also he would barely even nod or show any signs of life. That is when I decided to suffocate him. After I made sure he was dead, I went over to the tub room and remembered what Randall had been talking about. I remember him saying that he would use the main water dispenser to break out through the glass. He could not lift it at the time, but I knew I could. So after I lifted it, I walked over to the glass, and smashed it right through. I heard Taber screaming behind me as I hopped over and started running. I didn’t know whether he was mad, upset, or confused, but whatever the case, I kept running, not even stopping to look behind me to see if anyone had followed. I did stop at one point to reflect and convince myself of why I did it. I finally came up with the only reason I could find: McMurphy was a great friend of mine who I came to rely on. I learned basketball from him, we went through electric shock together, and overall we became great friends. He was not the same when the two workers left him on that bed, I could see it right away. I was not going to let him live like that, so I choked him and escaped, plain and simple. I now reside in a community where I am some what respected by mostly everybody, which is great considering they did eventually find out about my past. Though I reminisce sometimes on what could have been, I realize that in my heart, I am a good person and I did what was right, which is all that really matters in the end.

Sincerely,

Chief B.