Letter from Chief

Dear Nurse Ratchet,

 

            I am writing you this letter to explain my feelings towards the whole McMurphy situation, and to explain why I decided to escape. When you and the other nurses were giving Cheswick his electroshock therapy, I revealed to McMurphy that not only can I hear what everybody is saying, but that I can also talk. This was time in which we began planning our escape from the ward. When McMurphy invited the two girls into the ward that night and we “partied” with them, McMurphy and I planned on escaping with them. However, we got sidetracked when Billy Bibbit wanted to stay with the brunette girl, but felt that he wasn’t ready to leave the ward. So, McMurphy locked the two of them into a room together for them to spend the night together, and said that we would leave in the morning.

            After we found Billy dead in the office, you could tell by our faces that we were shocked. We all felt saddened because we all cared about Billy, but we also felt the same as McMurphy. McMurphy felt angry, and felt that it was your fault that Billy had killed himself because you kept telling him that you were going to tell his mother. When the orderlies took McMurphy away after trying to choke you to death, we all thought you were giving him electroshock therapy again, and figured that he would be back soon. However, McMurphy was still missing after a week, and there were rumors going around that McMurphy had escaped by himself. I felt betrayed because we had made a plan to stick together, and escape together. However, the night that the orderlies brought McMurphy back changed everything.

            I awoke to the sound of the orderlies practically dragging someone to the beds. I looked up, and noticed that it was McMurphy. Once the orderlies left, I walked over, and started to talk to him about how glad I was that he had come back to escape with me. When he was not replying, I took a closer look at him and noticed the lobotomy scars on his head, and realized what had happened. I was furious that the nurses thought it was okay to do this. You took away his emotions, and left him as a brain-dead zombie. I was unwilling to let McMurphy live his life in this way, so I suffocated him with his pillow. Afterwards, frustrated with the nurses and orderlies in the ward that the power of trying to change us get to their heads, I decided that I needed to escape. So, I went into the showers, and ripped the water control panel off of its stand, and crashed it through the window. I ran through the window, and ran as fast as I can away from the ward. From a distance, I could faintly hear Taber screaming in joy of my escape.

            So, that leaves me to where I am now. Right now, I am writing to you from Utah, but
I will probably be somewhere different by the time you get this letter. I have been hitch-hiking, and catching rides with nice people who have been willingly to drive me as far as they can. Since I left the ward with no money, I have been begging people for either food or money. Most people have given money. I’ve been using the money to buy food, and I had some leftover to send this letter. I just wanted to let you know that although you think you have power, you do not have all the power. I believe the power has gone to your head, and I advise you to control the power you think you have. McMurphy’s attitude towards the ward, and his opinion on the ward is what motivated me to leave the ward. Not only has he inspired me, but he inspired the whole ward to step up and fight for their uniqueness, which you are trying to take away from them. I wish you, Nurse Ratchet, to see our perspective on what is best for us because I believe that the people who know what is best for us are the people that are going through it themselves.

 

Sincerely,

Chief