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PSYCHOLOGY One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Not too many books take you into the world of mental illness. One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey does. It is told through the eyes of a mental patient named
Chief Bromden. He is a northwest Indian, who is disturbed with hallucinations about
machines taking over the world he knows. The mental hospital is in Oregon; a Nurse
Ratched, has machine like control of everyone and everything in the ward. The only hint
of her humanity is the fact that she possesses
very large breasts, which she keeps tucked
away under her neat-as-a-pin white uniform. The Chief has been there the longer than
anyone except for Ratched. He uses this to his advantage by making the other people in
the ward think he is deaf and dumb.
Life in the ward is quiet until a new patient is admitted. His name is Radall
Patrick McMurphy and he is a redheaded brute who smells of sweat, work, dirt and dust.
He starts in by......
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