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    The book I read is called One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, and it was written by Ken Kesey. Kesey volunteered as a paid experimental subject conducted by the U.S. Army, in which he was asked to report the effects of mind-altering drugs he was given. He was also an attendant in a hospital’s psychiatric ward. Thus, the experiences he had gained was his inspiration for writing his 1962 novel, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. The book is about Chief Bromden, the narrator of the story, who pretended to

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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey is an incredibly powerful book. It falls under the genre of fictional drama, with a realistic plot and relatable characters. It is set in the 1960’s, in a psychiatric hospital in Oregon. The beginning explains life in the facility and describes the patients and the difference between them. You are introduced to the men who are functional and communicable, then you are informed of the other side. These gentlemen include those who mainly sit, stare and drool

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    1) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is an allegorical novel that takes place in a psychiatric facility (insane asylum) in the late 1950s to early 1960s. The story is told through the first person narration of Chief Bromden, a schizophrenic, half-Indian, longest-residing patient of ten years at the hospital. He suffers from delusions and hallucinations due to his schizophrenia and his electroshock therapy over the years. Bromden pretends to be deaf and dumb as to avoid other people and go unnoticed

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    One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest The significance of the title can be interpreted in this quote. The story is about a struggle in a psychiatric ward, where many “cuckoos'; reside, “Ting. Tingle, tingle, tremble toes, she’s a good fisherman, catches hens, puts ‘em in pens… wire blier, limber lock, three geese inna flock… one flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest… O-U-T spells out…

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    Respond critically to significant aspects of visual text through close reading, supported by evidence. In the film ‘One flew over the cuckoo's nest’, directed by Milos Forman, two key scenes are used to emphasis the challenges of breaking free from society's institutional control. In the scenes chosen, the two main characters are McMurphy and the chief. In the ‘fire hose’ scene, McMurphy sprays the inmates with a fire hose when they are fighting over their monopoly game and in the second scene,

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    One Flew Over Nurse Ratched

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    Maryam Nasir Hamrick English 12 20 October 2014 One Flew Over Nurse Ratched One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest describes a mental hospital where the patients housed within are restrained by the use of medication and a controlling nurse who reduces the patients wills. The patients over and over betray one another, which effectively draw them to further detachment within themselves. In an institution where no one seems to care about curing patients Nurse Ratched seems happy to break the will of each

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    body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” Social criticism is necessary to depict the flaws out in our society, so that we may fix them. Ken Kesey tried to bring attention to issues plaguing America in the 1950’s through his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. In the novel, patients in a mental hospital ward are mistreated by former military nurse, Nurse Ratched. However they feel mentally weak, and have been so intimidated her rule, that they do not question her evil practices. When

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    A novel based off of a nursery rhyme must be peaceful and cheerful right? Not according to Ken Kesey. In his kaleidoscopic novel, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Kesey introduces the reader to a plethora of kooky, loony, and downright absurd situations, all the while being set in a mental hospital in the 1960’s. Kesey adventures in experimenting with elements of an entirely new literary time period, Post-Modernism. By using an overabundance of tones that, to the ordinary author, would be insane

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    Rene Steele Mr. Ryan Strunz College Prep English 9 January, 2015 College Bound Novel: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey is a brilliant novel copyrighted in 1963 it is about a man testing his limits with his authority, the nurse. Ken Kesey was influenced to write this novel after being part of a experiment involving the effect LSD had on people's minds.("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Background.") This novel shows what I believe are true aspects of the

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    Different Interpretations Of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest How could the text be read and interpreted differently by two different readers? Someone reading One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest from when it was written in the 1950’s with the idea of perfect America and the perfect American would read and interpret this book much differently than someone from today's modern society. Throughout this book there is many things that would be interpreted much differently from these two readers such as the

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