One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

TITLE: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest AUTHOR: Ken Kesey, United States FIRST YEAR OF PUBLICATION: First published in 1962 NUMBER OF PAGES: 310 MAINCHARACTERS: Randall Patrick McMurphy: A manual laborer, gambler and a con man, who is admitted to the ward from Pendelton Prison Farm, diagnosed as a psychotic. Really not insane, he transforms the ward by teaching the other inmates how to be free. Finally lobotomized after attacking Nurse Ratched, he is killed in his …

…more depressed with shock therapy. And with only a few it really helps, but mostly for a short time then. But I wouldn’t be interested in this if I had never seen the movie or read the book. So maybe the book did influence my live, concerning my concepts about certain things. (P.S. There may be some writing errors in the Book Report, but the spellcheck doesn’t work, so sorry for that!)