One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The class novel we read was Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The novelwas basically written about an Asylum and the powerful Randle Patrick McMurphy, a patient who would rather be in a Mental Institution than the slammer. In the Asylum he changed the atmosphere in the ward, he change the thoughts of the what he liked to call the “loonies”, which were the other mental patients. He also had the willpower to over Ken Kesey’s use of symbolism in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest changes the novel itself and the Asylum in to a small universe, which deals with a battle between the sane and the insane. Which would be, Randle Patrick McMurphy vs. Big Nurse Ratched, the conformist and the nonconformist. When McMurphy entered the doors of the loony bin, he changed the lives of almost everybody, whether it was a patient or an employee. I was not quite sure if his motives and actions were intended for good, or bad. He had saved the patients from losing their souls. That is one example of a good hero. Without McMurphy, the other patients would not have been able to stand up for themselves or be able to appreciate themselves. But, on the other hand, Big Nurse Ratched made
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Approximate Word count = 1112
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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