The story is told in the first person point of view by Chief Bromden a huge patient who is sharing his mental hospital experience. He is a disturbed man who has fooled all of the other patients and the staff into believing that he is deaf and can't speak. He thinks of the hospital as a place of fear, rather than of a place of healing. This partly has to due with the head of the hospital ward, Nurse Ratched; a woman who believes in order at all times. She is viewed as the hospitals most powerful person, in turn, the least liked by the patients. In order to escape the Nurse, Chief Bromden thinks back to his childhood in an Indian village, but this also evokes the Combine force, which sends his mind into a deep fog.

Early on in the story Kesey, introduces the character Randolph McMurphy, a newly admitted patient. He is a boisterous man with much self

Sexuality is a prominent issue among the characters of the ward as well. Nurse Hatched uses this issue to manipulate the patients, most notably Harding and Billy. They are both partly in the hospital because of their sexual shortcomings. Nurse Hatched denies the sexuality of her patients and even herself. This inferiority to the rest of society does not help in the betterment of the patients. The characters have already been reduced to such incompetent people by the Combine, Nurse Hatched, and especially society that the fear and vulnerability that lies within these characters is what makes them victims of society.

-confidence and a very friendly personality. He claims that he's only at the hospital to enjoy an easier life compared to the life he was living at a state farm. McMurphy quickly familiarizes himself with the people surrounding him and tells stories to all of the patients. His humorous personality enlightens the patients and the ward in general. However, Nurse Ratched doesn't like this change because she feels McMurphy is a manipulator. Her controlling personality clashes with his easy going personality and as expected she tries to enforce rules, while he is ready to rebel against them. Nurse Ratched has dealt with people similar to McMurphy by punishing them with electro-shock therapy or with lobotomies. Both are to degrade the "offender", the latter of the two makes the patients feel inferior to society on account of their sexuality.

McMurphy at this point has helped nearly all of the patients by bringing them back to a more natural state of being. However, he has worn himself down and seems as though he is worst off than when he originally came into the ward. After getting in trouble with Chief Bromden for sticking up for a man who was mistreated, they both had to undergo shock treatments. Once they returned, the patient's were attempting to plan an escape for McMurphy, but he wouldn't leave until Billy Bibbit had a date. By the time, that this happens, McMurphy is too worn down to escape from the Nurse. The Nurse has continued her relentless attack on the unstable and makes Billy feel extremely gui

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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)