One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Lesson Plan

Ken Kesey, a creative writing student at Stanford University in 1960, was recruited as a human test subject in psychedelic drug research at the Menlo Park Veteran’s Hospital, where he also worked as a night aide. These experiences inspired his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which was published in 1962 to great acclaim.The novel is narrated by Chief Bromden, a mental patient. His paranoid visions of the hospital and the world make him an unreliable narrator, yet the narrative’s events ultimately suggest that Bromden sees the world more accurately than anyone else.

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