Moni Basu and Matt Smith, CNN
Date Published: Oct. 21, 2011 Date Accessed: Oct. 21, 2011
Summary: CNN reports that Mahmoud Jibril, Libya’s transitional prime minister, claimed that the ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi has been killed after being captured. The prime minister’s troops overran Gadhafi’s hometown and captured the ousted dictator unharmed as Gadhafi did not resisted even though he had a gun, but when Gadhafi was being loaded into a vehicle, Gadhafi’s supporters arrived and a gunbattle between prime minister’s troops and the supporters erupted. During the gunbattle, Gadhafi was hit in the head, and died before arriving at the hospital. However, Ali Aujali, Libya’s ambassador to the United States, stated that troops found Gadhafi in a large drainage pipe that was filled with trash and sand. The Libyans celebrate the fate of Gadhafi.
Response: This article relates to One Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest as there was conflict between two group of people; as in article, Gadhafi’s and Jibril’s supporters, as in the novel, the patients and the Combine. Gadhafi can be viewed as McMurphy because he dies at the end, may have brought a change in the end to other people that remain alive and also shows that nobody can beat the system. In this case, McMurphy is a villain and the Combine is the good side. The Combine is the belief of justice that mankind has, that is why most people in the world go against Gadhafi.
Vocabulary:
- Ousted
1. “Libyans cheered the fate of ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi into the early hours of Friday”
2. to expel or remove from a place or position occupied
3. The bouncer ousted the drunk; to oust the Prime Minister in the next election.
- Coroner
1. Gadhafi died moments before arriving at a hospital in Misrata, Jibril said, citing the city's coroner.
2. an officer whose chief function is to investigate by inquest, as before a jury, any death not clearly resulting from natural causes.
3. The coroner claimed that George Bush had indeed died of a stroke, not alcohol poising.
- Insurgency
1. "There will be tribal differences, there will be Gadhafi loyalists who melt into the population and attempt to launch an insurgency like what we saw in Iraq."
2. rebellion within a group
3. There was a sense of insurgency as people had different views as to who should be the chief leader.
