"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

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This paper discusses the American classic book, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey. The characters and the plot and setting of the story are described. The paper explains that Kesey's novel has remained in the forefront of social consciousness due to its subject matter, the incredibly barbaric way mental patients were treated in institutions. The paper illustrates that this novel put the spot light on the social and humane issues regarding the mentally ill.

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"Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" has become an American classic. The novel, set in the 1960's in a mental hospital, tells the story of one of the hospital's patients, Randle Patrick McMurphy, who has conned his way into the hospital hoping to get a lighter sentence from the court. The story is told in first-person narration through the eyes of another patient, Chief Bromden, a six foot two Indian who has spent the last thirty years pretending to be deaf and dumb. The protagonist, McMurphy, focuses his attention on Nurse Ratched, head of the wards. The patients refer to her as Big Nurse. She runs the wards more like torture rooms than hospital rooms, leading McMurphy to rebel against her at every turn."

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