Brett Dalton's 'Institution In Raw'

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ENGLISH An Institution is an established organization or foundation, especially one dedicated to education, public service or culture. You can find many forms of institutions everywhere around you, for example the police. The police are a common form of an institution around us which serves and protects us the “citizens”. Then there are also the kinds of Institution which we haven’t heard of and they are not good institutions, these terrorist organizations are also a form of “institution” where they brainwash teenagers and adults alike into what they believe is the right way, which most of the time sadly is the wrong decision against society. So the police as an institution play a huge part in Brett Dalton’s life in the novel “Raw” written…show more content…
Prison farm is the place Brett’s being taken for his rehabilitation to begin and for him to be installed once again into the society as a useful individual that can contribute his services. Once he got to this “prison farm” he was introduced to the person who ran it, his name was Sam and unlike prison cells he ran this “prison farm” on very light rules. Those rules are as follows “No Fighting”, No Leaving the property”, “My decision is final” and to top it all off “No Drugs” and these rules were set as such that if one inmate breaks them, all the other inmates suffer the consequences too, for example no movie nights or no visits 2 the…show more content…
That forced a few changes in Brett’s behavior and lifestyle but in the end nothing prevailed. This next text I am about to speak about is also a very good example of institutions, where as the “prison farm” I spoke of earlier this text which is named “One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest” Directed by Milos Forman in 1975 is about a mental hospital but the man sent there ( Jack Nicholson ) finds the head nurse a lot more dangerous than the inmates themselves. Randle Patrick McMurphy ( Jack Nicholson ) thinks he can get out of doing work while in prison by pretending to be mad. His plans are rapidly backfired when he is sent a “mental asylum”. He tries to liven the place up on his arrival by playing card games and playing basketball with his fellow inmates, but the head nurse is after him at every turn. McMurphy has been dating a 15 year old and is sentenced to short term for contributing delinquency of a minor. Rather than spend his time in jail, he convinces the guards he is crazy enough to need psychiatric care and is sent to a hospital. He fits in frighteningly well, and his different point of view actually begins to cause some of the patients

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