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=//One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest //     = ==A Novel By Ken Kesey      == <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> //"//**Tingle, tingle, tremble toes, she's a good fisherman, catches hens, puts 'em inna pens... wire blier, limber lock, three geese inna flock... <span style="color: rgb(245, 0, 6)">one flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest ...O-U-T spells out...goose swoops down and plucks //you// out**//"// (Kesey 246).

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">//One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest// is a fictional story about life in a mental ward, set in the late 50s early 60s, as told by the half-indian "Chief" Bromden. The ward is set up in two 'un official' sections; the Acutes and the Chronics. Life in the ward is very monotonous and simple until the arrival of the new guy, Randle Patrick McMurphy. Things will never be the same... The ward is run by the awful Nurse Ratched, who in the eyes of Cheif is more a mechanical robot than a human. With her expressionless expressions and the mechanical way she runs things. One night Chief even sees what //really// goes bump in the night at the ward, when he doesn't take his 'knock-out' medication like he is supposed to. What he sees is something beyond your wildest nightmares, that the workers of the hospital are robots, and that the humming that is ever-present in the ward, but never heard by the comitted really is the hum of many machines running the ward; speeding up time, slowing it down, and drowning the patients in a fog. When "Mack" McMurphy arrives however, he reminds the men in the ward what it's like to have fun, what it's like to laugh, and most importantly, what it's like to live a life of their choosing. Mack does a great job of turning the ward into organized chaos, led by the Bull Goose Loony himself. Is freedom from the Combine worth Electro Shock Treatment, beatings, strange medications, and whatever else Nurse Ratched has up her über startched sleeve to keep them under her mechanical control? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> Overall, //One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest// is a very good book. It was written in a way that really expresses the deepest feelings of the book, and it has all the makings of a great classic. However, I disliked how there was <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">no <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">indication of <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">when Cheif was telling the truth, and when he was exaggerating and using symbolism. That makes the book somewhat <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">confusing, because the reader starts of thinking it is truth, then some type of symbolism, then truth, and then sometimes you are told it's a dream, and sometimes it is left completely up to the reader to figure out. A lot of things are also left unsaid, and there is much room for reader interpertation, which is good, but it sometimes leads the reader away from the meaning the author wants you to come to. Kesey is an amazing author though, except his use of sex and sexual refrences is awfully excessive and doesn't have much of a significance, and could have been kept out of the book for the most part. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">I would reccomend this book to people with a higher understanding of symbolism and a <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> fair amount of analy <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">tical <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">  <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> skills. Kesey goes over the top with symbolism, but the content of his book makes it also for more matur <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">e readers. From violence, to excessive sexual content, this book shouldn't be read by anyone who cannot take it seirously. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">//One Flew Over the// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Cuckoo's Nest //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> is a literary masterpiece and is enjoyful as well as thought provoking and written by a very intelligent man. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">After I read the book, I decided I wanted to watch the movie and compare the two. I must say, that the movie does the book no justice. In the movie many details are left out, things are put out of order, and it has such little detail and the characters don't even look as described. I did notice that some of the lines were the same as those in the book, and it added more of a humor aspect to the book. So if you enjoyed the movie, I highly reccomend reading the book, for the book is over a million times better than the movie. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> This book was placed on the "Outstanding Books For the College Bound" list because not only is it a classic but it really digs deep into the literary world and should be read by people across the globe. The book also shows <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">an extraordanary amount of symbolism that is test of knowledge and skill for anyone reading //One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.// It also has a deeper meaning of freedom embedded within the pages; the story is centered around freedom. The freedom to laugh, the freedom to spend time alone, the freedom to sleep, the freedom to have real relations      <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">hips, the freedom to be a part of the outside world, the freedom to live a life of your choosing. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">Symbolism is hidden in the smallest of things, like the uniforms of the workers at the mental ward. Many ti <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">mes throughout the story, it is mentioned how startched the uniforms of the workers are, especially that of Big Nurse Ratched. When one of the workers is involved in a fight with McMurphy and Bromden, "He laid still then, the starch washing from the uniform down the choking drain" (Kesey 238). Which shows how the control <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> has been lost. Starch in the uniforms symbolizes the control of the mental ward over the patients, which is why Nurse Ratched has the uniform filled with the most starch. When the starch from a worker's uniform is washed down the drain after a fight, it is symbolizing the loss of control now that the patients have one the fight. It is **outstanding** how the simplest things can hold so much symbolism. Kesey definately was an intelligent man, and a great author. There is no doubt that //One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest// should forever remain on the "Outstanding Books For the College Bound" list. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">
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===<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">About the Author       === ==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">       == <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">Ken Kesey was born on September 17th 1935 in La Junta, Colorado. Due to complications from cancer surgery he <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">  <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> died on November 10th 2001. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> ==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">       == <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">In 1957 Kesey took part in a CIA-funded study named Project MKULTRA, that tested the effects of psychoa <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">  <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">ctive drugs, like: [|LSD], [|psilocybin], [|mescaline], [|cocaine], and [|DMT]. He wrote detailed accounts of these experiences, which lead to his writing of //One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest// in 1962.

Moving from Stanford to La Honda, California, Kesey frequently entertai       <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">ned large amounts of people (friends and others) with parties he liked to call "Acid Tests" involving music (like his favorite band The Warlocks, which later became known as the Gratetful Dead), fluorescent paint, black lights, strobe lights, other "psychedelic" effects, and LSD. These parties were noted in the works of other writers.

//One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest// is his best-known title, one of the best-known titles of the 1960's, and Kesey's first book. In 1945 //One Flew// //Over the Cuckoo's Nest// was turned into an Oscar winning movie starring [|Jack Nicholson].

To find out more about Ken Kesey, please visit: [|Ken Kesey: Biography], a compilation of biographies on Kesey from many sites, all on one page! <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">

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 * A wonderful trailer for //One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest// the movie.**

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__Bibliography__ <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">Kesey, Ken. __One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest__. New York: Penguin Books, 2003. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">"ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST - HQ Trailer ( 1975 )." __YouTube__. 18 May 2008. 7 Nov 2008 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN1cCviBXmY>. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Tribute." __YouTube__. 26 Dec 2007. 7 Nov 2008 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALUSl5Lr93o>. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">