One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Summary
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Part I The narrator of this novel is “Chief Bromden”, who also happens to be one of the main characters. He has been admitted into the Oregon psychiatric hospital for about 10 years, for recurring hallucinations and paranoia (known as schizophrenia). In this novel, he is known as “deaf and mute”. Because of this, majority of the people in the hospital ignore him. Nurse Ratched is in charge of the mental patients, and she is harsh to all of them.
Randle McMurphy arrives in the ward as a transfer, and most people believe something is seriously off about him. First of all, he fakes his insanity to get out of prison. He tells the other men how he enjoys gambling and women. During their time in the ward, the …show more content…
The novel doesn’t explain why, but it is assumed that it was for McMurphy to die with dignity. Bromden believes he lost strength during his time in the hospital, however he is able to escape the hospital by breaking through a window. He then reaches the highway and catches a ride with a Mexican man to finally reach Canada.
Part II Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is one of the books on ALA’s list of banned and challenged classics. In 1974, five residents of Strongsville, Ohio, sued the board of education to get the novel removed from classrooms. Labeling it “pornographic,” they charged the novel “glorifies criminal activity, has a tendency to corrupt juveniles, and contains descriptions of bestiality, bizarre violence, and torture, dismemberment, death, and human elimination.” It was removed from public schools in Randolph, New York, and Alton, Oklahoma in 1975, removed from the required reading list in Westport, Maine in 1977, and banned from the St. Anthony, Idaho Freemont High School classrooms in 1978 and the instructor who assigned it was terminated. Even in the 21st century, there were many complaints. Parents stated that teachers “can choose the best books, but they keep choosing this garbage over and over
Part I The narrator of this novel is “Chief Bromden”, who also happens to be one of the main characters. He has been admitted into the Oregon psychiatric hospital for about 10 years, for recurring hallucinations and paranoia (known as schizophrenia). In this novel, he is known as “deaf and mute”. Because of this, majority of the people in the hospital ignore him. Nurse Ratched is in charge of the mental patients, and she is harsh to all of them.
Randle McMurphy arrives in the ward as a transfer, and most people believe something is seriously off about him. First of all, he fakes his insanity to get out of prison. He tells the other men how he enjoys gambling and women. During their time in the ward, the …show more content…
The novel doesn’t explain why, but it is assumed that it was for McMurphy to die with dignity. Bromden believes he lost strength during his time in the hospital, however he is able to escape the hospital by breaking through a window. He then reaches the highway and catches a ride with a Mexican man to finally reach Canada.
Part II Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is one of the books on ALA’s list of banned and challenged classics. In 1974, five residents of Strongsville, Ohio, sued the board of education to get the novel removed from classrooms. Labeling it “pornographic,” they charged the novel “glorifies criminal activity, has a tendency to corrupt juveniles, and contains descriptions of bestiality, bizarre violence, and torture, dismemberment, death, and human elimination.” It was removed from public schools in Randolph, New York, and Alton, Oklahoma in 1975, removed from the required reading list in Westport, Maine in 1977, and banned from the St. Anthony, Idaho Freemont High School classrooms in 1978 and the instructor who assigned it was terminated. Even in the 21st century, there were many complaints. Parents stated that teachers “can choose the best books, but they keep choosing this garbage over and over