One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest By Ken Kesey

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is a story written by Ken Kesey that is about people in a psychiatric ward. The story is narrated by Chief Bromden, someone who pretends to be deaf but in reality is not. Nurse Ratched runs the ward. McMurphy arrives at the ward, and appears to be sane and does not seem to have any sort of mental disorder. McMurphy attempts to fight nurse Ratched’s stern way of running the ward. He attempts to change the schedule so that he can watch the World Series, but this attempt fails after no one else seems interested in a schedule change. However, when it is brought to a vote, everyone votes in favor of watching it, but she still rules against it because the patients in more critical condition could vote. He is eventually able to get Chief Bromden to vote in favor of watching baseball, but by this time, nurse Ratched rules that

To show his displeasure, he sits in front of the TV and does not do any of his work. In response to behavior, the tub room is closed as a form of punishment. McMurphy soon learns that nurse Ratched is in control and that it is up to her to decide when he is suitable to leave the ward so it is in his best interest not to continue to fight with her. When Cheswick fails to gain support from McMurphy, he kills himself in the pool. After McMurphy breaks a glass wall in order to get his cigarettes that had been taken away from him, the patients vote to go on a fishing trip. It is almost cancelled by nurse Ratched since only one of the chaperones, Candy Starr, a prostitute, shows up and the other one does not, but takes place after a second chaperone is found. On the trip, the men have a great time, the first time they have had any sort of enjoyment in a very long time. McMurphy decides that he is going to escape after Billy has sex with Candy so that he can lose his virginity. However, after nurse Ratched finds out about what he did and threatens to tell his mom, so instead of facing the humiliation, he