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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest takes place in a mental institution in the Pacific Northwest. The narrator of the novel is Chief Bromden, also known as Chief Broom, a catatonic half-Indian man whom all of the inmates and staff assume is deaf and dumb. Bromden often suffers from hallucinations during which he feels the room filling with a dense, overwhelming fog generated by a huge mechanized matrix called The Combine which controls everyone in its grasp. The institution is dominated by Nurse Ratched (Big Nurse), a cold, precise woman with calculated gestures and a calm, mechanical manner. When the story begins, a new patient, Randall Patrick McMurphy, arrives at the ward. He is a self-professed “gambling fool” who has just come from a work…

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Posted By joharia h #229821 at Feb 10, 2012 4:17 PM

why are the acutes in the hospital and why dont they leave

why are the other acutes in the hospital and why dont they leave

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Posted By beto s #226515 at Jan 24, 2012 9:21 AM

Mcmurphy fought washington in the shower because

A) washington was trying to put salve on george
B)washington said mcmurphy's mother was pretty
C) Chief said Washington had kicked him
D) Harding was pointing at washington and crying

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Posted By olivia c #224529 at Jan 12, 2012 6:53 PM

who is the narrator and how is he revealed?

part 1

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