1. The title of the book is ‘One flew over the cuckoo’s nest’. "Cuckoo" means "crazy" in the American language. "The cuckoo's nest" means the mental hospital that is the setting of the book. "One" means McMurphy. The novel tells the story of what happens when McMurphy went to the mental hospital: One flew over the cuckoo's nest.

2. The author of this book is Ken Kesey. Ken Kesey was born in Colorado, in 1935. He
studied at the University of Oregon. He graduated in 1957.
Kesey spent some wild years in his youth. In the sixties he founded a group called: The Merry Pranksters. They experimented with drugs. Kesey was arrested several times and once he had to go to Mexico to escape a five-year jail sentence because he was in possession of marijuana.
Kesey was the main-character in the novel The electric kool-aid acid test from Tom Wolfe. The book described Kesey's life. Thanks to that book Kesey became a cult-hero of the sixties.
In 1962 he published his book One flew over the cuckoo’s nest.

3. This book was written in the sixties. This was a period of rebellion and revolution. He has used his own
experiences to write the book. He worked in a mental hospital for veterans himself and he dealt in drugs and travelled around the country with his group: The Merry Pranksters. So he rebelled against several values too.

4. I think the book is a parody on life in a mental hospital.

5. The subject of the book is the conflict between the System and the individual. In the story Miss
Ratched represents the System and R.P McMurphy is the individual.
Miss Ratched wants everything in her ward of the mental hospital to be well organised. McMurphy is an aggressive man who wants to be himself and wants to have a good time.
The strong discipline makes it happen that none of the patients on the ward...








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