Photo by Stephen Paterson on Unsplash I apologize for not writing more posts about our June read of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey named one of Time Magazine's 100 Best English-Language Novels . I just relocated from Chicago to Indianapolis and am in the process of creating a new life! As we read, the novel is set in a psychiatric novel in Oregon and is narrated by a half Native American named "Chief" Bromden. Bromden pretends to be deaf and mute and why is explained later in the novel. There are several other characters introduced as the story progresses including two other main characters-- Randle Patrick McMurphy and Nurse Ratched. The two have a highly antagonistic relationship primarily because Randle, as a new patient on the ward, is highly encouraging of change both in terms of rules of the ward and the spirits of the men. I won't go into too much more of the plo...
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