One flew over the Cuckoo's nest

It is very evident in the novel “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” that every character had his place in the story, this, although seemingly ignorable has proven to be a very useful way in relaying a message. The background characters of the story tell more than just the obvious. Many backgrounds and background characters go unnoticed in many stories and movies, but without these elements many themes or messages could not be relayed as clearly. In many movies even the light fixture can prove to show a message or even assist in predicting future events, this I believe was used to relay an extremely unnoticed theme and message in the novel. I believe one background theme is, that the writer Ken Kessey used background characters to show the truth of the ward, not the characters that knew what was going on, or so they believed, but that the nurse will come to use these characters to her own advantage.

The most powerful message seems to be self evident, a nurse who has all the ...