Historical Perspective
A Origins of the Colombian State Knowing the history of the country of Colombia can provide considerable insight into the political battles that take place […]
Month: January 2009
Further Reading
Based on his studies of Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain, Garcia Marquez’s 1975 work El otono del patriarca (translated in 1977 as The Autumn of […]
Introduction
Ken Kesey’s tragicomic novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, takes place in a mental hospital during the late 1950s. The book can be read […]
Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey was born in 1935 in La Junta, Colorado. The family moved to Springfield, Oregon, where he attended public school before matriculating and graduating […]
Plot Summary
A Part 1 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is the story of a few remarkable weeks in an Oregon insane asylum and the events […]
Characters
A Chief Bromden Chief Bromden is the schizophrenic narrator of the story, and has been in the mental institution since leaving the Army shortly after […]
Construction
A Point of View Kesey seems to follow a fairly straightforward course in unfolding the plot of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Except for […]
Historical Perspective
A The 1950s: Conformity and Change The late 1950s, the time period in which the book was written and set, saw the end of a […]