Human Behavior In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's

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There is human behavior in William Golding’s (1954,1999) lord of the flies and in Ken Kesey's (1962) One flew over the cuckoo's nest. Human behavior can be acted in different ways.

In Ken Kesey's quote “The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf is the strong,” (Kelsey 1962) the author describes human behavior as in that person who is bigger and stronger tend to mess with the weaker and little people such as in William Golding quote “Henry was a bit of a leader this afternoon, because the other two were Percival and Johnny, the smallest boys on the island.
Roger and Maurice came out of the forest. Roger led the way straight through the [sand] castles, kicking them over, burying the flowers, scattering the chosen stones.

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