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The title of this book is one flew over the cuckoo?s nest.The writer of the book is Ken Kesey.Ken Kesey was born in Colorado in 1935. He studied at the University of Oregon, where he graduated in 1957. Ken worked in a psychiatric ward of a veterans' hospital for a while. Towards the end of the sixties he founded a group called The Merry Pranksters, who experimented with drugs, travelled through the country and critized the narrow-mindedness of the American system. Tougher police control caused the group to split up. Ken fled to Mexico to escape a five-year prison sentence for possession of marijuana. Ken now lives on a farm in Oregon.
One flew over the cuckoo's nest was made into an award-winning film directed by Milos Forman and starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.
Other work by the author are ;
Sometime a Great Notion (1964, novel), Kesey's Garage Sale (1973, novel)
One flew over the cuckoo?s nest was first piblished in 1962 and the book has 283 pages.
I saw the play on April the 19th.
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The theme of the play is the struggle of the individual against the system. In the play this is pictured in the struggle between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched.
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Randle P. McMurphy
A gambler and con man, who is admitted to the ward from Pendleton Prison Farm, diagnosed as a psychotic. Really not insane, he transforms the ward by teaching the other inmates how to be free. Finally after attacking Nurse Ratched, he is killed in his sleep by Chief Bromden.

Nurse Ratched
She is a former Army nurse, in her fifties-an absolute tyrant. She maintains order by pitting the inmates against one another.

Chief Bromden
A huge paranoid-schizophrenic Indian. He is a Chronic, diagnosed as incurable, and has been on the ward since the end of World War II. He imagines himself to be small and weak and pretends to be a deaf-mute in order to protect himself. He kills McMurphy after the Big Nurse has had him lobotomised, and escapes from the hospital.

Dale Harding
An effeminate man, psychologically "castrated" by his wife, who has committed himself to the hospital.

Billy Bibbet
A frightened thirty-one-year-old man with the mind of a adolescent. He is dominated by his mother, who is a friend of Nurse Ratched

Candy Starr
A prostitute from Portland .
The story
The play was about a nurse who has the ward well under control , the patients live or regulated according to a strict routine . Her patients are divided into the Acute?s and the Chronics. The first undergo therapies; the second are also known as the incurables.Randle P. McMurphy is a new patient he introduces him self as a gambler.The first morning he embarasses the nurse by walking around the ward, barely dressed.The first fight between Randle and Nurse Ratched begins. With a great deal of difficulty, Randle gets the majority of patients to vote with him to have the television set turned on during the baseball championships. Nevertheless, the nurse turns the television off. With Randle the other patients protest by continuing to watch the blank screen until Nurse Ratched loses her temper. Randle has won the bet. Back on the ward Randle organises a party to let one girl into the ward. The girl sleeps with Billy who has his first experience with a woman in bed.. Unfortunately everyone is still asleep when Nurse Ratched arrives and she discovers the girl. When she tells Billy's that she will tell his mother about it , he kills himself by cutting his throat. Nurse Ratched holds Randle responsible.At the end their is a fight and every one is killed except Randal the Indian . He escapes from the hospital.
During the play their is a part weir the Indian is in his own world that was a little bit confusing .Almost at the end they sing a song whit the words ?One flew east , one flew west one flew over the cuckoo?s nest ?.
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I would recommend this to everyone .Because it is a fun play but you have the have some patient because the play is very long.