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    Fight Club is about how an average man is unfulfilled with his life. He’s an insomniac that goes to these support groups that help people go through diseases in hopes to get a nights sleep. He discovers that his spirit animal is a penguin; penguins are flightless birds that always wear a suit and are weak. He creates this masculine alpha male he wants to become in his mind. The theme is masculinity. Tyler Durden is what the narrator wants to be; confident, charismatic, powerful, sexually…

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    Kyle Kufrin Mr. Nicola Honors CP10 September 27, 2015 Relating My Piece of Literature to Foster Written about the daily lives of those inside a 1960s psychiatric ward, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest paints a picture in the reader’s head of the ongoing escape patients pursue from their reality inside their ward. Author Ken Kesey uses symbolism to portray psychiatric patient Randle McMurphy’s escape from misery. Religious imagery, coupled…

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    Fight Club Masculinity

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    In the movie Fight Club, Edward Norton stars as an unnamed man, who is both the narrator and the protagonist. This man is discontent with his white-collar job, depressed, and plagued with insomnia. His only solace is to attend support groups for various afflictions and illnesses, none of which he possesses. In one of his various support groups, he meets a woman named Marla Singer, played by Helena Bonham Carter, who is also a support group imposter or “tourist.” Her presence robs him of his…

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    Shehryar Khan Mrs. Windsor CP English 11, period 6 6 March 2015 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest The book, “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” by Ken Kesey, is told in perspective of a patient inside of an insane asylum. One of the characters, Chief Bromden, is a patient who does the most to be left alone. A great change came to the asylum as McMurphy, a prisoner who was looking to get out of jail, arrives. Ken Kesey writes the story in perspective of Bromden’s observations of McMurphy. He…

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    One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is a fictional novel written by Ken Kesey. It is based in an insane asylum in Oregon around the late 1950’s. The asylum serves many purposes throughout the story and also symbolizes as a safe zone for the patients from the outside world. The half-indian narrator, Chief Bromden, comes from a dysfunctional family where the woman dominates man and greed overcomes love. This imbalance in nature creates confusion within Chief’s mind. For the duration of the story, the…

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    Cuckoo's Nest Allegory

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    Government can be represented by a lot of things and when used in a story, poem or picture, this is called an allegory. An example of this is a mental asylum, specifically the one found in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey is an allegory of a corrupt, controlling, power-hungry, machine-like Government. Nurse Ratched represents a corrupt, power hungry government leader. McMurphy wants to have a vote on whether or not the acutes are allowed…

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    The 1975 film, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest is, among some of the greatest American films of its time. The overall theme of the movie takes place in a mental hospital, a place where normally rebellion has never taken place that was until, Randall Patrick McMurphy. McMurphy the main character who is brought into custody of the medical ward for observation. McMurphy was a convicted rapist with five counts for assault before he pretends to "go mad" and lands himself in the looney bin. Soon after…

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    Widely regarded as a timeless and classic masterpiece, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey delivers an exciting story that follows the insane stories recounted by Chief Bromden in a mental facility. One must wonder, what factors make Kesey’s work a masterpiece? Thomas Foster’s book How to Read Literature Like a Professor gives readers insight about the qualities that make the novel a masterpiece: such as the progressions by characters, the allusions to the Bible, and the deeper…

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    The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a story of a group of men that reside in a mental ward, faced with a dictatorial head nurse that runs it. This nurse is the main evil of the novel, and for good reason. Her school of thought can only be summed up by one common phrase, first said by Benjamin Franklin, “A place for everything, and everything in its place.” The Big Nurse, as she is referred to in the novel, takes this phrase to the extreme, and applies it to more things than it probably…

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    When maintaining order there must be oppression; people will have no freedom without a little chaos. Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is about the struggle between order and chaos. It is always the strong ones who eat the weak. In the novel the mental institution is described as a big machine. Throughout the novel the nurse and her assistants operate the machine to keep it running efficiently. Coincidently, the patients cause problems for the machine, particularly McMurphy who wants…

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