“A leader is a dealer in hope.” This famous quote by Napoleon Bonaparte, a leader of the French in the 1800’s, conveys how the right leader brings hope into a hopeless situation. Having someone to follow when taking risks and walking into new scenarios can often reveal the solution to all of your difficulties. Once you have a role model in life that stands up for what they believe in and their followers, you can start moving in the right direction in life. Having a leader in life that represents the solution you are trying to accomplish, will make it easier to complete your goal. Although leaders can sometimes have the wrong intentions, the right guidance is needed to allow a group of people to fix their problems.
McMurphy leads the patients
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McMurphy is not in the mental ward because he is insane. McMurphy is there because it is a better living option for him than work farm he was previously in after jail. Since McMurphy is not crazy, the patients think of him as a normal person in society. Normal people in society are free and can do what they please. Therefore, the patients look at McMurphy as a symbol of freedom. Leading to the patients to believing that it is possible to have a better life once they get out of the mental ward. Additionally, McMurphy demonstrated to the patients that there is a way off of the mental ward. He explained to the patients that he would try to escape from the ward by throwing the control panel out the window. At the end of the book, Chief Bromden escapes the ward by following McMurphy’s teachings and throwing the control panel out the window. McMurphy’s symbol of freedom eventually led to Chief Bromden escaping the ward into a better life. In like manner, Chief Bromden killed McMurphy when he came back from electric shock therapy. After electric shock therapy, McMurphy was not himself anymore. He did not represent, he represented control instead. Consequently, Chief Bromden killed McMurphy to put him out of his misery. Chief Bromden followed McMurphy's leadership allowing him to see that everyone needs to be free. This allows for McMurphy not having to live while being controlled and Chief Bromden being able to see the world