One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Book Report

This novel, “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” starts with the narrator, Chief Bromden, a schizophrenic patient, waking up in a psychiatric ward of a hospital, where he’s been living for the past ten years. Chief Brodmen describes the hospital as an enormous machine, called the “Combine,” which controls the patients and imposes obedience on them. He pretends to be deaf and dumb allowing him to hear all the secrets on the ward and remain mostly unnoticed in the ward. Nurse Ratched, also known as the “Big Nurse,” by Chief, enters the room and orders the aides to shave Chief Bromden. Nurse Ratched is an insensitive and deceptive person who desires a specific routine that’s mechanized to perfection. A new patient, Randle McMurphy, arrives at the ward and he is …show more content…
In the next group meeting, the doctor suggests McMurphy’s idea of allowing people who want into another room without the loud music which gets approved despite Nurse Ratched’s constant disapproval. McMuphy also suggests the idea of watching the World Series and since it’s not in the scheduled T.V time, he proposes they do cleaning chores in the morning and watch T.V in the afternoon. However, Nurse Ratched refused to apply any changes to her precise schedule so McMurphy holds a vote which loses. Enraged, McMurphy bets the patients that he can escape the hospital by lifting the cement control panel and using it to break through the secured windows, however when actually attempted, he failed. McMurphy holds another vote regarding the T.V and with the support of Bromden, he wins the vote, but Nurse Ratched says the vote was invalid since Bromden lifted his hand after the meeting ended. During the afternoon chores, McMurphy states that it’s time for the game and turns on the T.V but Nurse Ratched turns it off. However, McMurphy doesn’t move from his seat, he sits in front of a blank