One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Restricted But Not Forgotten Throughout One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the mental hospital is rocked mercilessly by the arrival of Randle McMurphy and his rather inappropriate manner. Literature and classic novels such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest contain issues heavily criticized by concerned parents and children. Whether the issue contains profanity, violence, or content too mature for young readers, concerned parents and students continue to threaten to ban and forget award-winning books’ existences. Unfortunately for Ken Kesey’s classic, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, restricting the novel is potentially the only course of action. While the book displays violence unsuitable for high school curriculums, libraries must continue to include Ken Kesey’s classic novel. Although the novel teaches valuable life lessons about individuality and is mild compared to modern media, high school curriculums should refrain from supplying One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest to students because it incorporates profanity and racist slurs, violence, and sexual acts. Violence in literature has been one of the many issues that led to the ban on books and classic novels because it exhibits negative effects on the minds of young readers. The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest has descriptions of violence so detailed that it could have terrible consequences for young readers. In the novel, McMurphy attacks the nurse brutally and attempts to kill her,