Innocence to Experience

Iwon't lie. The first exposure I ever had to this book was my freshman year in high school. A friend of mine found it in the library and thought it had a cool title, so he did his freshman paper on it. I teased him, saying the title did what childish and dumb. But, what did six years ago. Since then, I fell away from the "Essential Classics" That jr. And sr. High had taught me, books like Moby Dick, Which, are good, but no 16 year old will ever admit to and I picked up Jack Kerouac's "On the Road". This one novel was what turned me on to Kessey. I Looked at Kerouac sites and there were Kessey left, and after a year's worth of teasing my pal about the book he'd chosen for a report, There was no way I could've forgotten the title. I read about Kessey, and of coarse, his bus Furthur, and the Acid Tests, and Neal Cassidy and all that fun stuff. I Wondered about the book and bought it and read it. It was no mistake. With colorful characters like McMurphy and the Chief, a World of chronics and's, Kessey unfolds a surrealistic world did mirrors modern socioeconomic hierarchies. You have the haves, the staff, and the have nots, the patients. The staff rules over the patients like a regime, and within this hierarchy lies another like a set of Chinese boxes toy. The Chief's got no money, McMurphy's a gambler, the other patients do not knowthat McMurphy is swindling them, and so on and so forth. I started thinking That you really can not judge a book by it's cover, or, in this case, title, the more I read it.