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Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson St., NY Born in La Junta, Colorado, the accomplished author Ken Kesey lived from 1935- 2001. Kesey earned a bachelor's degree at The University of Oregon and later studied creative writing at Harvard University. Although he received an exceptional education, Kesey later volunteered in a number of government drug experiments which led to an addiction to psychedelic drugs such as LSD(circa 1960). Soon after this, Kesey took a job at a mental hospital, at which he spoke extensively to the patients. This experience invariably led to the author's most heralded work throughout his career- the novel One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest: a book based on the repressive state of mental hospitals in the early 1960's (kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/kesey.html). Kesey would later release a number of publications which include: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), Garage Sale (1973), Demon Box (1986), Caverns (1989), Sea Lion (1991), and Sailor Song (1992)(Ken Kesey Timeline). Outside of writing and participating in seminars and short story classes, Kesey is well recognized for leading a psychedelic bus tri
It praised Ken Kesey's writing ability and applauded the book's central message (as is stated in the quotation)3) "Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Bromden fought against the hospital by escaping through the window, which lead to his freedom from the suppressive ways of the institution. This is evident when he takes ten other patients on a fishing trip and teaches them how to catch the bigger fishes by themselves (this symbolized the patients learning to take on life's problems on their own shoulders). After these incidents, nurse Ratched invariably loses the control she once had over the group of mental patients in the hospital. In the powerful ending scene, Chief Bromden escapes through the window of the mental hospital, symbolizing the lesson that McMurphy taught the patients: to live their own free lives and to break free of repressive systems. Through this character, Kesey implies that everyone who feels demeaned under some system, must find something that can inspire them to rise up for what they believe is right. By the end of the book, Kesey reaches this realization in a way that is both grim and alternately triumphant. "-The Penguin Group (Canada) - The Penguin Groups review focused mainly on the strength of the story and characters proposed by Kesey. screen when Ratched wouldn't allow the patients to watch the World Series). Instead of letting him live in his pathetic state, Bromden suffocates McMurphy in his bed, allowing him to die with dignity.
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