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This book storyline revloved around a mental institue; the actions, antics, and conversations. The characters are patients at the institue they all have diffrent personalities and ideas one life. The books main characters are The Chief(the narrator) and McMurphy. McMurphy becomes the leader of there group because the is the boldest and braves one in the mental hospital. Mcmurphy is the newest patient in the mental instation and he is there for statutory rape. He has pretended to be insane in order to get out of prison time. So Murphy isn't really insane he is just pretending because he doesn't want to do jail time. The narrator chief is 6 feet 7 seven inches tall he seems to pretend to be deaf and incapable of speech, he looks to be doing this because he wants to be left alone and tries to go unnoticed. Due to his shyness he his at times taken advantage of by the orderlies and nurses, they at times make fun of him, boss him around, and at times force him to clean the area.

The plot of the book mostly revolves around the characters rebelling and standing up to the main villain of the nurse. Early McMurphy organized a form of protest instead of doing work and cleaning the men following Murphys lead all decided to group together in order to watch the blank tv screen. I feel that this was just a way for the men to show they aren't afraid to disobey authority, and choose to live there life the way they choose. There is a section in book where Mcmurphy looses his courage when he realizes that the nurse is the one that controls when he Is allowed to leave, also the nurse has the ability to make him go to electroshock therapy. Murphy gains back his courage after he starts to understand he is looked up to and view as a leader by the other men. Soon after Mcmurphy then organizes a fishing trip with the other men in order to relieve the stress of the life in the ward. This seems to help him regain his confidence and calm down from the stress he was under the nurse.

After this McMurphy starts to cause a string of trouble by getting into fights  with the workers, he brings weed and alcohol into the ward, he also fights with nurse Ratched, and he also let a prostitue because of all theses issues McMurphy had to deal with penalties. The penalty he faces is he is to be lombotized after the event he becomes a vegetable and the Bromden ends up killing him to remove his pain, before breaking out himself. In the end it seems as thought that Nurse Ratched has lost all of her power and the men look to be free, many of them end up leaving.

I recomend this book to people that like unique story's with unique characters and settings. This book had everything I would ever want in a book it had some humor, and moments of intese drama and action. The characters are well portrayed and depicted. I like the fact that the book didn't have a ton on unessary discriptions of characters and places. The book made you think what it's like to be mentally ill and how the strict, difficult the life's of these people can be. This book had a underlying message of living your life the way out want to, and standing up to those above you if they are wrong. Overall I think this was a very well written and this book also had a very good story line that felt very real to me.