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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest By Ken Kesey

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McMurphy placing in the mental ward In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, a man by the name of Mr McMurphy is incorrectly inducted into a mental ward. A mental ward is a facility that houses people who have a psychological disorder. A psychological disorder is a mental disability characterized by patterns of thought, emotion, or behavior that are maladaptive, disruptive, or uncomfortable for the person or the people around them. The people who run the mental ward do not believe that McMurphy is insane, nor does McMurphy himself.The text states “Of course, the very nature of this plan could indicate that he is simply a shrewd con and not mentally ill at all”(Kesey 154). This helps the point because it shows that many of the people running the
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