Limited Narratorthe curious incident of the dog in the night-timeOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestGirl, Interrupted

the curious incident of the dog in the night-time• Narrator and protagonist- Christopher Boone, 15

year old boy with autism.• Chris lives with his “widowed” father• Wellington is killed and Chris begins to solve the

mystery of the killing behind his father’s back.• He is encouraged to stop his investigation and to

not get into people’s business• Although Chris has a learning disorder, he is very

bright and able to problem solve well.

Mark Haddon• English novelist and poet• Haddon worked with people with disabilities• 2003- won the Witbread Book of the Year Award• 2004- won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize

Overall Best First Book• Both for the novel the curious incident of the dog

in the night-time

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest• The narrator, Chief Bromden, is a half-indian

patient at Oregon psychiatric hospital.• The patients are all male.• Run by Nurse Ratched, a.k.a. “Big Nurse.”• Randle McMurphy arrives and all of the patients

realize there is something different about him.• McMurphy defies Nurse Ratched’s authority. • He begins to do things to go against Big Nurse.

Ken Kesey• Best known for OFOTCN• Counter-cultural figure who considered himself a

link between the Beat Generation (1950’s) and the hippies (1960’s).

• Awarded the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship in 1958 which enrolled him in the creative writing program at Stanford University.

Girl, Interrupted• Susanna Kaysen is a patient at McLean hospital in

Belmont, Massachusetts.• All girls• Real diary entries of her life and the lives of the

other patients in the hospital.• She suffers from mild Schizophrenia.• Attempted suicide by taking 50 aspirin, then gets

her stomach pumped after.

Susanna Kaysen• Born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts• Attended the Commonwealth School in Boston

and the Cambridge School• Then was sent to McLean for depression in 1967• Diagnosed with borderline personality and

released after 18 months

Limited Narrator• All of the narrators in the books deal with some

sort of handicap which makes us question whether they are reliable narrators or not.

• Christopher Boone shows the reader that even with Autism, he is able to accomplish what he set his mind to.

• Randle McMurphy becomes the advocate for the patients in the mental hospital who cannot stand up for themselves against Nurse Ratched.

• The real-life stories by Susanna Kaysen gives the reader an inside look at what happened inside McLean.