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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: McMurphy

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, with its meaningful message of
individualism, was an extremely influential novel during the 1960's. In
addition, its author, Ken Kesey, played a significant role in the development of
the counterculture of the 60's; this included all people who did not conform to
society's standards, experimented in drugs, and just lived their lives in an
unconventional manner. Ken Kesey had many significant experiences that enabled
him to create One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. As a result of his entrance into
the creative writing program at Stanford University in 1959 (Ken 1), Kesey moved
to Perry Lane in Menlo Park. It was there that he and other writers first
experimented with psychedelic drugs. After living at Perry Lane for a while,
Kesey's friend, Vik Lovell, informed him about experiments at a local V.A.
hospital in which volunteers were paid to take mind-altering drugs (Wolfe 321).
Kesey's experiences at......

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