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Symbols
Secondary Character Traits
Major Events
Mixed Bag
100
Red Hair
Who is McMurphy
100
Rabbits
Who are the patients.
100
He is nailed in chains to a wall.
Who is Ellis.
100
The reason that McMurphy gives for breaking the glass in the nurse's station.
It was so clean, he could not see it.
100
It is unclear whether this P.O.V. should be trusted.
What is an unreliable narrator?
200
Like a Doll
Who is Nurse Ratched?
200
The fog.
What is the Chief's confusion or lack of clarity.
200
He is over powered by his mother.
Who is Billy Bibbet.
200
The Chief strangles him with a pillow at the end.
Who is McMurphy?
200
Power. Manipulation. Racism.
What are some themes from this book?
300
Broom
Who is the chief?
300
The wolf.
Who is the nurse.
300
He commits suicide in the pool.
Who is Chester Chestwick?
300
The nurse brings up this person in order to shame Billy Bibbet.
Who is Billy's mother?
300
Profanity and sexual situations.
What are reasons given for banning this book?
400
Starched white uniforms
Who are the orderlies.
400
The dog the Chief looks at out of his window.
The Chief's returning interest in the outside world.
400
He pilots the boat on the fishing trip.
Who is George Sorenson?
400
This is how the Chief escapes.
What is by breaking the window?
400
Electroshock Therapy
What is the punishment McMurphy and the Chief are given for fighting with the orderlies.
500
Stutter
Who is Billy Bibbit?
500
The whales.
God. The Power of Nature. The pursuit of evil.
500
He compares the hospital to rabbits and wolves.
Who is Harding?
500
Because he wants to leave the hospital through the proper channels.
Why Harding won't escape?
500
He rips her shirt and strangles her?
What McMurphy does to the Nurse?
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