This great novel by Ken Kesey, asks the quite inetressting question: who judges upon sanity and insanity in our society? this is the story of a sane one, Mc Murphy, who comes to the mental institution, from a prison work farm. And he immediatly after entering the ward he starts chellangeing the nurse, ho is the Boss of the hostpital and wants to control all her patients. MyMurphy tries to teach the other patients how to live, by making them laugh, playing cards with them, wanting to watch baseball games on TV, Organising a fishing trip, bringing a prositute to the ward and making a party in the hostpital. The nurse, who almost looses control over her patients, Reacts on McMurphy's revolutionary ambitions, with a electroshock therapy and in the end she makes a labotomie (= the cutting away of a part of the brain, Which puts you in a vegatetive state). But in the end the Native American friend of McMurphy suffocates him with a pillow, Because He Knows That McMurphy would not want to live as a vegtable. and after this the Native American escapes from the ward, and McMurphy remains a hero for the patients, who died as a Christlike figure for the freedom of the others. Kesey's book rises many questions, like: who says That someone is mentally insane, or is it right to lock people away and trying to control them, whatever it costs .. ?? Nobody who is interested in stories dealing with society very critically, will enjoy this book !!!!
