Why Is One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Be Banned

I personally believe that One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest should not be banned for various reasons. While it may include many sexual innuendos, graphic descriptions, and risky behavior, this novel gives you insight as to what mental institutions are like and also shows that you can still have a carefree and fun attitude even though you are ill. Although the book was incredibly upsetting at some points, it put a system that needed to change in the spotlight, and Kesey did so with an amazing sense of humor and loaded the story with very memorable characters. According to Banned Book Awareness, in 1974, residents of a town in Ohio claimed the book to be considered ‘pornographic’. “The way the Big Nurse acted so confident in that staff meeting, that worried me for a while, but it didn’t make any difference to McMurphy.

He’d won his bet; he’d got the nurse’s goat the way he said he would, and had collected on it, but that didn’t stop him from going right ahead and acting like he always had, hollering up and down the hall, laughing at the black boys, frustrating the whole staff, even going so far as to step up to the Big Nurse in the hall one time and ask her, if she didn’t mind tellin’, just what was the actual inch-by-inch measurement on them great big of breasts that she did her best to conceal but never could. She walked right on past, ignoring him just like she chose to ignore the way nature had tagged her with those outsized badges of femininity, just like she was above him, and sex, and everything else that’s weak and of the flesh.” (Page 138) While there are quite a few quotes mentioning things that may not be considered appropriate for a school environment, these are things that exist in our