One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest By Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest By Ken Kesey Randall McMurphy gets himself committed to the mental hospital where he makes a big impression. He has a large personality, with a sarcastic wit and a fighting demeanor. He intends his stay as a break from a work farm he was assigned to, but finds himself up against a lot of rules set forth by the head nurse, Miss Ratched, who has the entire staff and all of the patients afraid of her as she walks the ward with her cold smile. Randall sees her as a challenge to over come, an opponent to beat, and sets to the task of driving her to her breaking point. But Nurse Ratched is not so easily flustered. And she has a lot of power to wield, which Randall underestimates. As he causes a ruckus in the ward and begins to pull the terrified patients out of their shells, using his charm and intelligence to wrangle some privileges Nurse Ratched is loathe to give into, he comes to find out what the full extent of her power is. When he pushes too...