IR Final Blog Post

 Summary:Kesey appears in court and his lawyers successfully convince the judge to let him post bail. He is still accused of other charges in San Francisco, but the lawyers get him off there, too. Kesey is back on the street after only five days in the criminal justice system. His status of the leader in the LSD world suffers, because people think he has abandoned principles to stay out of jail.
Many of the old Pranksters who drifted away once Babbs took over return to San Francisco to partake in the Graduation. Plans for the Graduation fall apart, but it is held in the Warehouse anyway on Halloween. Kesey expects a power struggle to take place between returning members and himself over who is the leader of the LSD world. Kesey, his family and a Prankster named Ram Rod take the bus to his home town, Springfield, Oregon. The other Pranksters scatter around the country and to Mexico. Kesey gets off easy on a third felony count by pleading no contest to a lesser charge.
Symbols:The court system and the system of leadership in the LSD world, both have similarities in that you are judged by your peers by a certain standard and if they are not met you could very easily lose your place if it holds some form of power.
Events: The graduation, Kesey' trials.
Themes:An alternate reality. The whole book is really in some way a jump between realities for Kesey and the Pranksters. With their experiments with LSD and other hallucinogens, they put themselves in a  euphoric like state a majority of the time and after coming down are forced back into the world which we consider to be the real and have to face the harsh judgment of others.
Connections: I can connect to this through the ideas of alternate realities, I have always thought of the idea of there being some form of different now. There could be many different ways to find it but Kesey and the Pranksters seemed to have found a short cut through LSD.

This is a picture of 9 drawings made through out the time one artist was on LSD. This was done for a government experiment. Its clear to see how the ideas of alternate reality can come up.