One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Moral Response)

[Reaperx43]

In Ken Kesey’s book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, one of the main characters (Randle McMurphy) helps to teach not only the supporting characters, but also the readers a valuable lesson. The staff at the mental hospital takes advantage of the patients, and the patients live a boring and depressing life. McMurphy comes in and livens things up. He teaches the rest of the patients there to stand up for themselves, to do things that make them happy, and to live life to the fullest. One of the patients talk for the first time in ten years thanks to McMurphy. In the end McMurphy suffers the consequences for going against the staff, but the lesson taught to the patients in the end was well worth it. The lesson is to live life to the fullest, and not to let anyone hold you back from doing so or being happy.

[Mrs. Steimer]

Good points about how this novel can be analyzed from a moral standpoint. I would like to see more text evidence to support your ideas. You are right that "McMurphy comes in an livens things up!" Specific references would make the point even stronger.