In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Why Does Chief Bromden trust,

In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Why Does Chief Bromden Trust? befriend and then murder Randle Patrick McMurphy? First published in 1962, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is the book by. Ken Kesey- follows the journey of a man named Randle Patrick McMurphy. through a North American mental institution in the 1960s. McMurphy is a prisoner who pleaded insanity in order to escape a lengthy prison sentence for statutory rape which turns out to have. been with an underage girl. Whoa. I'm a snob. Couldn't make that stick," McMurphy told the doctor. ' Girl wouldn't testify to that. With a child of fifteen. She said she was seventeen Doc, and she was plenty willing." Introduced from the outset as an outspoken, yet amiable rogue. McMurphy is cowboy-like in manner and attire. He shows up in the door and stops and hitches his thumbs in his pockets, boots wide apart, and stands there with the guys looking at. him. broad across the jaw, shoulders and chest, with a broad white. devilish grin. His arrival on the ward is alarming and exciting to the patients. already there, as McMurphy's loud, outspoken, outgoing personality. clashes with the calm, quiet, subdued atmosphere of their daily lives. and his presence affects the lives of everyone on the ward, including the staff of the company. Another central character in the book is Head Nurse Ratched. A formidable character, Ratched is perpetually calm, precise and. organised, and yet she is calculating, manipulative and indirect. coercive. The snare is Ratched runs the men's ward like clockwork, using carefully devised. schedules, medications and unspoken threats of punishment, retaining....

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...Knowing that Nurse Ratched is going to tell his mother what he has done, Billy breaks down and commits suicide by cutting his throat. McMurphy is devastated by Billy's death, and furious that Nurse. Ratched caused him to commit suicide out of fear and despair. When Nurse Ratched accuses McMurphy of being the cause of Billy's suicide, he is filled with a blinding rage, and attacks her, ripping. open her uniform and attempt to strangle her. As punishment for this incident, McMurphy is sent to undergo a lobotomy - an operation where part of the brain is removed. The operation takes all the life and spirit out of McMurphy, and he is. left with no animation, no personality, in a conscious but vegetate. state. The.. When Chief Bromden finds out what has been done to McMurphy, and the state that he will now be in for the rest of his life, he ponders. what McMurphy would have done in his place.