\'COSI\' Quotes to memorise for quiz (002) PDF

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COSI QUOTES FOR THE BOOK COSI AND WOULD BE APPLICABLE FOR ANYONE DOING ENGLISH VCE...

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‘COSI’ QUOTE QUIZ QUOTES THE ”BURNT OUT THEATRE” SYMBOLISES THE LACK OF CARE AND SUPPORT THE PATIENTS RECEIVE FROM SOCIETY JUSTIN REASSURES LEWIS THAT THE PATIENTS “ARE JUST NORMAL PEOPLE” JUSTIN EXPLAINS THAT RATHER THAN BEING REJECTS OR WORTHLESS, THE PATIENTS “HAVE DONE EXTRAORDINARY THINGS, THOUGHT EXTRAORDINARY THOUGHTS” WHEN ATTEMPTING TO MAKE LEWIS UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS LIKE FOR THE PATIENTS HE LIKENS A MADMAN TO “SOMEONE WHO ARRIVES AT A FANCY DRESS PARTY IN THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES” DOUG OFTEN OVER STEPS SOCIAL BOUNDARIES AND MAKES OTHERS UNCOMFORTABLE, PARTLY BECAUSE IN THE ASYLUM THEY “MISS OUT ON A LOT OF SOCIETY’S MORALS” WHEN SPEAKING OF HIS OWN FAMILY’S EXPERIENCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS, LEWIS ADMITS THAT HE “LIKED [HIS] GRANDMOTHER, [HE] KNEW SHE HAD GONE MAD BUT SHE WAS STILL [HIS] GRANDMOTHER”

LEWIS’ SUPPORT OF THE PATIENTS BECOMES APPARENT WHEN HE BLOCKS HENRY’S WAY AND ASSURES HIM HE WOULD NOT “LET [HIM] WALK OUT ON [THEM]” WHEN TALKING OF THE ASYLUM WORKERS JULIE LAMENTS THAT “THEY DON’T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH DRUG USERS” JULIE’S “PARENTS HAD HER COMMITTED” TO THE ASYLUM BECAUSE IT WAS EASIER AND CONVINCED THEMSELVES THEY WEREN’T NEGLECTING THEIR DAUGHTER BY THINKING OF IT AS “SORT OF LIKE A HOLIDAY” THE PATIENTS OF THE ASYLUM NOT ONLY FACE MALTREATMENT FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD, BUT ALSO FROM ONE ANOTHER, WHICH IS HIGHLIGHTED WHEN ROY LABELS HENRY “A FAILURE, AS A HUMAN BEING AND AS A LAWYER” DUE TO HIS INABILITY TO COMMUNICATE

LEWIS’ TRANSFORMATION IS EVIDENT WHEN LUCY ACCUSES HIM THAT “WORKING WITH [THE PATIENTS] HAS CHANGED [HIM]” IN HIS TYPICAL SARCASTIC MANNER, ROY REFERS TO ASYLUMS AS “THE MOST INEFFICIENT PLACES ON THIS EARTH”

DESPITE EACH OF THE PATIENTS KNOWING HOW IT FEELS TO BE AN OUTCAST, THEY CONTINUE TO TAUNT EACH OTHER. JULIE IS LABELLED ”A JUNKIE AND A LOONIE” AND DOUG IS OFTEN ENCOURAGED TO “GO BURN A CAT”

LEWIS’ LOYALTY AND SUPPORT OF HIS NEW FRIENDS IS AT ITS CLEAREST WHEN HE CHOOSES REHEARSALS OVER THE MORATORIUM AND EVEN “PUNCHES NICK TO THE FLOOR” THE PATIENTS ARE OFTEN IGNORANT TO CURRENT EVENTS DUE TO THEIR ISOLATION AND ARE “ALWAYS THE LAST TO KNOW THINGS IN AN ASYLUM”. MANY OF THE PATIENTS ARE EVEN UNAWARE THAT AUSTRALIA IS IN THE MIDST OF WAR. ROY DESCRIBES HIS CHILDHOOD AS FULL OF ”TEA PARTIES, DANCES IN [THEIR] BALLROOM,” AND “LULLABIES GOODNIGHT SUNG TO [HIM] BY [HIS] BEAUTIFUL MOTHER” LATER, ROY’S TRUE CHILDHOOD IS UNCOVERED AS SPENDING ”MOST OF HIS EARLY LIFE IN ORPHANAGES AND BEING FARMED OUT TO FOSTER PARENTS” AFTER THE PLAY, JUSTIN PRAISES LEWIS FOR BEING ABLE TO MAKE THE PATIENTS COME “RIGHT OUT OF THEIR SHELLS” LUCY PROVES TO BE FAR LESS SUPPORTIVE THAN ANY OF LEWIS’ NEW FRIENDS WHEN SHE ADMITS TO HAVING ”SEX WITH [NICK] AND SLEEP[ING] WITH [LEWIS]” IN LEWIS’ FINAL MONOLGUE HE CLARFIES THAT ROY ”WENT FROM WARD TO WARD AFTER HIS FELLOW PATIENTS TOOK UP PETITIIONS TO GET RID OF HIM” JULIE’S BATTLE WITH DRUG ADDICTION CONTINUED AND SHE SOON “DIED OF A DRUG OVERDOSE”...