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By
Brittany Koppes
Mrs. Manternach Composition I 17 November 2017
Page Break Ken Kesey's novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, illustrated many of the society's problems in the 1960s after being published in 1962. Kesey's novel went into detail about the mental institutions and how the patients were treated in an insane asylum in Oregon. Events that happened to Kesey throughout his childhood and adult life reflect within the novel and help give the reader insight into what life was really like in the 1960s. His personal experiences through his jobs reveal some of the dark spots of mental health during this time period. Ken Kesey explains the harsh treatment of patients in the 1960's mental institutions through his personal experiences while growing up from his childhood to the day he died, which helped aid Kesey in writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
The author, Ken Kesey, tied in many of his personal experiences while he was writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. As one gets to understand Kesey and his life better, one can make many connections throughout the reading. Kesey was born on September 17, …show more content…
After gathering research on Kesey, one can learn how he enjoyed using drugs, and how his experimentation reflects on the drug use by the main character in the novel. Kesey used his firsthand experiences to help him write his novel, as well as having the main character build confidence to stand up to the mistreatment given to the patients by the head of the ward. Ken Kesey also used his novel to show the mistreatment of patients in the hospitals, which soon resulted in the investigations of the
By
Brittany Koppes
Mrs. Manternach Composition I 17 November 2017
Page Break Ken Kesey's novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, illustrated many of the society's problems in the 1960s after being published in 1962. Kesey's novel went into detail about the mental institutions and how the patients were treated in an insane asylum in Oregon. Events that happened to Kesey throughout his childhood and adult life reflect within the novel and help give the reader insight into what life was really like in the 1960s. His personal experiences through his jobs reveal some of the dark spots of mental health during this time period. Ken Kesey explains the harsh treatment of patients in the 1960's mental institutions through his personal experiences while growing up from his childhood to the day he died, which helped aid Kesey in writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
The author, Ken Kesey, tied in many of his personal experiences while he was writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. As one gets to understand Kesey and his life better, one can make many connections throughout the reading. Kesey was born on September 17, …show more content…
After gathering research on Kesey, one can learn how he enjoyed using drugs, and how his experimentation reflects on the drug use by the main character in the novel. Kesey used his firsthand experiences to help him write his novel, as well as having the main character build confidence to stand up to the mistreatment given to the patients by the head of the ward. Ken Kesey also used his novel to show the mistreatment of patients in the hospitals, which soon resulted in the investigations of the