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One Flew Over the Cockoo's Nest

Mental and physical strengths. What are these you ask; these are every human being. They are the foundation of every person. Without those strengths we would be nothing, worthless, not worth anyone’s time. The men in the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kessy, thought that they were worthless, good for nothing people, but had a single man show them otherwise. This man turned their lives around, some for the good, and some for the worst. This man was Randle Patrick McMurphy.
Before McMurphy came along the men at the institute were worthless helpless people. Ms. Ratched, know as the Big Nurse, made sure that the men never became anything more than nothing to prove her ruling abilities. After the arrival of McMurphy it became harder for the big nurse to keep control over her patients. “I’m saying five bucks to each of you that wants it if I can’t put a betsy bug up that nurse’s butt within a week.”(p.72) This was the start of McMurphy’s plan to show t...

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