One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1). The movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, takes place at a State Mental Institution in Oregon during the 1960s. ... Perhaps the one man McMurphy has the largest effect on, the Chief, suffocates him out of sympathy and respect. ... McMurphy is the one that showed the Chief how to play basketball and didn't call him an idiot or a drunk (except for the one time in the beginning of the movie). ... Remarkable looks of achievement were on all of the patient's faces just over something insignificant like catching a fish. ...

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey does. ... One becomes so depressed he drowns himself. ... I think this story is a very good one. ... McMurphy uses all his inner powers to kill the Nurse's power over the patients. ... One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a great story about how one man can change from bad to good and help other people. ...

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" - Henry David Thoreau In "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," by Ken Kesey, the protagonist, Randle Patrick McMurphy arrives at the hospital, his admittance does not symbolize a surrender to conformity. Throughout the novel, one reads of McMurphy's fight to conquer the psychiatric ward. ... One reads of McMurphy testing his limits when he participates in group therapy. ... One can infer that McMurphy caused the deaths because of the effect of his teachings, but the connotation is not negative. ... The battle between individuality and conformity as portrayed through the charact...

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One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest Not too many books take you into the world of mental illness. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey does. ... I think this story is a very good one. ... McMurphy uses all his inner powers to kill the Nurse's power over the patients. ... One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a great story about how one man can change from bad to good and help other people. ...

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The novella One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey tells the story of patients living in a mental institution. ... So much so, that Cheswick, one of his most ardent followers, drowns himself in despair due to McMurphy's new attitude. ...

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In the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, written by Ken Kesey, the patients in a mental institution were firmly controlled by Nurse Ratched, the head of the ward. ... The nurse lost the power she has over the patients, whom she had taken pleasure in controlling. Although the Big Nurse accused McMurphy of playing with human lives as though he was God, she was actually the one impersonating God. ... She also acted very sympathetic when one of the patients had a problem, and she simply laid a comforting hand on his arm. ...

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Chief Bromden is a very tall and strong , Native American Indian. He stands 6"4, and is the most elongated resident at the ward. He is listed as a chronic patient who is a suffering Schizophrenic. This is a fact that the reader needs to understand, because Bromden has a hard time distinguishing ...

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