One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

I read this novel was one of my favorite books I read in my senior year of high school. Our class watched the movie also, which is a little different from the book because they are from different perspectives. The book's perspective is from one of the two major characters of the book, which is Chief Bromden; the movies perspective is from the other main character, McMurphy. Chief is a six foot something guy with an Indian ethnicity that plays deaf in dumb in the mental hospital, which is the main setting for the book, called The Ward. The first one of many twists in the book is when McMurphy is checked into the mental hospital, because he is not a mental handicapped person; he just pretended to be insane so he wouldn't go to jail from rape. That is when the fun starts for The Ward. His loud, rebelious personality brings a different wave of feeling to The Ward and the patients in there. All the patients are divided into acutes and chronics, depending on their mental state of mind. The third main character is Nurse Ratched. She controls the patients with her overruling authority. Her authority is what ends the book with the turning of McMurphy into a vegetable with electric shock. When McMurphy returns as a vegetable, Chief strangles and kills McMurphy to put him out of his misery so he would not conform to Nurse Ratched and The Ward. Overall the book is good read filled with fun filled mischief and many twists.