n alternative method to taking pills orally, McMurphy decides to 'take his pill.' But does not actually swallow the pill only spits it out when he walks away.
The patients are organized and controlled through a rigid set of authoritarian rules and regulations that McMurphy likes to question. He tries to anger Nurse Ratched by a struggle to win the other patients over to his way of thinking and behaving. He does this by establishing a political majority, to lead various group uprisings, and to emphasize how they have been rejected their basic freedoms. In the next group meeting, McMurphy begs Nurse Ratched to rearrange the 'schedule' so that they could watch the opener of the 1963 World Series baseball game on television, adding. To discourage his disengaging challenge and to cause no disruption to the ward's schedule, she refuses because of the other men who like the schedule. She then proposes a vote to decide the matter. Only three votes support McMurphy's request and he can't believe it. When a Monopoly game between
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