Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey does. It is told through the eyes of a mental patient named

Chief Bromden. He is a northwest Indian, who is disturbed with hallucinations about

machines taking over the world he knows. The mental hospital is in Oregon; a Nurse

Ratched, has machine like control of everyone and everything in the ward. The only hint

of her humanity is the fact that she posseses very large breasts, which she keeps tucked

away under her neat-as-a-pin white uniform. The Chief has been there the longer than

anyone except for Ratched. He uses this to his advantage by making the other people in

the ward think he is deaf and dumb.

Life in the ward is quiet until a new patient is admitted. His name is Radall

Patrick McMurphy and he is a redheaded brute who smells of sweat, work, dirt and dust.

He starts in by disrupting everything familiar in the ward, the silence, the admitting

showers, and the way the black boys bully the patients around. He quickly makes friends

with everyone including the Chronics who are vegetable like patients. McMurphy is a

Billy Bibbit with a prostitute to enable Billy to become a man. When an aide abuses a

ward and talks to Chief about it. The Chief speaks for the first time in years about the

who insist that he wanted to come to the ward for an easier life than the

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