An essay on the novel "Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

A mental institution is a place or a center for rehabilitating persons with mental disabilities or illnesses. One of the major jobs of a mental institution is to make the person, with the mental illness, live a less miserable life. Like being able to eat healthy and nutritious meal, taking the proper medications and therapies, being able to acquire knowledge or information on the outside world and the most essential, getting the proper respect, care …

…needs the support from all of them in order for the plan to work out, but certainly, he fires up a flame to their hearts that they need some change. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel full of hope and will to change a rotten scheme. It shows a surreal humor of reality amidst a dramatic struggle between a sane individual vs. a crazy institution. Ken Kesey shows it through McMurphy's charater.