CUCKOO'S NEST 4

I did not expect the ending that Kesey writes in part 4 of Cuckoo's Nest. I believe that it is the best part of the book and made the book worth reading. While the patients and McMurphy are out on their fishing trip the big nurse plots against McMurphy. She shows the patients a different side of McMurphy, a more evil side of him. She tells them that he is taking their money and isn't really the hero like they all believe. McMurphy then tries to take the control panel. He gets chief to help him and before they know it they are fighting with workers and are sent up to disturbed by the big nurse. While in disturbed McMurphy learns that he might be getting an operation. He doesn't want to be cut so he chokes the big nurse so badly she can not even speak anymore. McMurphy returns to his old floor and is now a "vegetable." Chief sufficates McMurphy with a pillow and then leaves the hospital. Overall, Chief proves that he has a bigger role and just because he was silent doesn't mean he didn't make an impact on the novel. The main character is left brain dead and then killed. McMurphy had so much power and was looked at as a hero to all of his fellow patients. In the end, Chief is left standing and finally gets out of the hospital to live life the way he wants too.

CUCKOO'S NEST 3

In Part III of the Cuckoo's Nest, the part that I liked the most was McMurphy's fishing trip. McMurphy gives the men a chance to see what's outside of the hospital walls. The men are all excited and anxious for the fishing trip. On the day of the trip the big nurse tries to stop McMurphy but she is unsuccessful in her attempt. Candy Starr, McMurphy's friend who happens to be a prostitute, arrives to pick up McMurphy and his friends gives him the news that her friend couldn't make it because she got married. The nurse hears this and tries to tell the men that the trip is canceled because everyone can't fit into one car. A doctor is listening nearby and decides to also go on the trip so he drives some patients in his car. The men get into a quarrel at the gas station because people outside of the hospital look at the men different and think they are crazy. McMurphy proves once again that he cares about the other patients because he stands up to the workers at the gas station. This is a very obvious reason as to why the men look up to McMurphy, he is their voice basically. Overall, the patients have a good time on the trip and realize that there is live beyond the walls of the hospital. The patients begin to notice that they have power, despite what the big nurse enforces onto them.