Part 3 Cuckoo's Nest

Now that McMurphy is back to his old ways again, things are a bit out of order again as they were before when he first decided not to follow the rules.
It seems as though he was trying his hardest to stay quiet and really keep his loud, boisterous actions to a minimum so that Nurse Ratched would not keep him at the ward because he doesn't want to become a chronic or even increase his chances of becoming a member of the Disturbed. But after this little incident where Nurse Ratched decided to publicly show her status, McMurphy could not even help himself to be any other way but his usual self. He had broken her window to her station for cigarettes that belonged to him and the rest of the patients but were confiscated supposedly for their own good.
I think the nurse should've just privately accepted her victory, because he was behaving properly. I'm sure it was because he found out that she could keep him in the ward as long as she pleased. He felt as though he had to give up on being the go to person for everyone and he didn't want to be used as the one they would rely to disrupt their rules just because he was accustomed to following any in the first place. He was taking all of the risk but that had to stop.
But anyways, in my eyes, she totally had the upper hand, whether or not he had failed to realize that (but luckily he did). And when he did his behavior was acceptable.
Sometimes when you provoke people, you are calling them to react upon your actions, even though you may not really want them to. Sometimes you should just take the respect that you have from them and be satisfied with it because it may be at a maximum and too hard of a push could just send them over the edge and they could just fall right back into the same habit as before. You should just try to ignore them for the most part.
Now that McMurphy has been at the ward for some time and has been able to spread his influence on the rest of the patients they start not relying on him to speak out. They begin to but all of this is still new to them.
I wondered how much can a person really impact your life? Can one person affect a whole unit of people and change their lives forever?
McMurphy had made the ward a difficult place to be in for the patients, but as soon as they understood him for who he really was, they see that he's not so bad. He just didn't want any of them to be held back any more than they deserved.
He sort developed his own way of helping them cope with their issues. It's in the opposite direction of the ward's way of helping them, but maybe that's what they needed all along.
It was a shock to see that McMurphy was granted an outside trip. But it just goes to show me as the reader and the other patients just how much McMurphy is respected or feared because of his knowledge and independence by the Nurse and the others in charge. His strength and inability to conform gave the other patients strength too to do things on their own, especially Bromden who hadn't spoken a word before. Now miraculously, he speaks and this could be the turning in point in his prolonged recovery.