One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey: Response

    For my book club, I am reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The time period is around the 1960's. So far, this book is about a chief that was admitted into an insane asylum (narirator)  and now has a new " housemate" if you will.  The new guy's name is McMurphy. He is the most outgoing and daring loony that hospital has ever seen. He thinks he will be taking over, but the Big Nurse (Nurse Ratched) has another plan. She holds the lives of all the patients at the asylum, and she is looked to with great fear and respect.
  
    I like the fact that the head person in charge is a  women. In the 1960's women were not as powerful as men. She is constantly compared to machines and their precision and monotony. Although I am an animate person, I aspire to be organized and efficient. Somewhat perfect. It seems as though she is just that. NO one or thing can stop her from getting the job done.

    Race also seems to be a big factor. The janitors are black and it is constantly mentioned throughout the chapters that I have read. The nurse is always being compared to porclein and pale things. She also treats them as her puppets and has complete control over them. In the 1960's there was not much racial inequality and in a way it shows that these two different races are united in some way.

    But all in all, I am looking forward to reading the rest of this book. It ha ssome old language in it, but the characters say such outrageous things, you won't get bored.