One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Book Review

Without sounding terribly cliché I honestly have to say that this book found me, rather than me finding it. I was having difficult time picking the right book. As I’m sure many of you are aware, a title on a list isn’t really much to go off of. One day I found myself in the library after school reading Catch-22. The book is probably good in its own right, but I might have been crushed under the weight of its 453 pages. Then, Mrs. Maynard the librarian taps me on the shoulder and hands me a copy of One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. She tells me that it’s about a mental hospital and that it was even made into a movie with Jack Nicolson. So, it was kind of a combination of those two factors that interested me. I liked the idea of the unique perspective …show more content…
What results is this war of attrition between the two. McMurphy bands up with the all the patients to revamp the ward policies, mainly so they can gamble, sleep in, and just do whatever they want. McMurphy even smuggles in alcohol and women to throw a big party one night. The Big Nurse fires back by using her powers of deception to turn all the patients against him. McMurphy responds by pointing out another needed change in the policy, regaining allies in the other patients. The two go back and forth, and the reader is never too sure who’s winning until the books climactic ending.
I think this book would appeal to readers of The Hunger Games or The Giver. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest deals with the overlapping theme of oppressive rule and rebellion seen in both The Hunger Games and The Giver. McMurphy is a lot like Katniss and Jonas in that they both take part in some sort of revolution against an overbearing authority. One flew Over the Cukoo’s expresses additional parallels with The Hunger Games in that they tell the story of an underdog. Katniss comes from the humble district 12, and McMurphy bounced around from prisons to work camps and asylums for almost his entire adult