One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Chapter 11

When they first come to the Island Philip is dependent of timothy and doesn’t want to work because he is blind stated by him in the novel. ”I just wanted to sit and think. I didn’t want to work. I said timothy I can’t work I’m blind”. Page 70 in the novel. Then when Timothy almost died of malaria so Timothy trained him to to rely on himself. Phillip starts being independent of Timothy when he carves a crane for philip so he can move around the island and also attaches vines to each side of the island so philip can walk back and forth from the hut.In chapter eleven is when philip says ” Timothy fashioned a cane for me and I was now using it to feel my way around the island ”.” I was starting to be less dependent on the vine ”. While still dependent on timothy he started to be less being able to walk without him and the vines. To test if Philip was now independent of Timothy he had to climb a tree blind. When he first went up to it he had stop and

It was, of course, being not able to see that made all the sounds so frightening.”. Page 65-66 in the novel. Then when he is want to escape the island because he thought Timothy was going to kill stew cat. So hey went out of the hut and went into the water to get on the raft and while he was blind. Philip started developing this trait when Timothy starts teaching him to take his blindness in and use as an advantage and to do so he had to learn how to make mats, use a fishing rod and much more than just that. When Timothy died he wasn’t scared he just buried him and said his thanks for everything he had done for him while he was alive.He was brave to do that but he was still afraid to do so. Finally Philip demonstrates bravery after experiencing timothy’s death he went on his day’s doing what timothy did while