In the book One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest has so many different events that happen. This makes there be so many different themes for this novel. The one theme that I think fits most of the story is to not judge others just by how they act or physically are. The nurses treat all of the patients disrespectfully in my eyes. For example, Harding is a very intelligent character and yet the nurses do not treat him that way. They make them feel like they are worthless and can not do things that normal people can. Particularly how they put the patients in different groups like the acutes, chronics, etc, this was just to make things easy for them; they do not care how the patients feel. Everyone should be treated equally even if they have a disability or act a certain way. They are all people and should not be put into groups like the nurses do to them. Another thing is they treat them like children. One of the acute patients asks the nurse what is in the pill they gave him and she talks to him like he is a young child. She says, “It’s just medication, Mr. Taber, good for you. Down it goes, now” (Kasey 35). Then after they blame him for acting like a child, when really they were just treating him like one. I believe this theme really fits the story as to how they treat there patients like they are dumb just because they have some sort of disability.
Kasey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest. New York, New York: Penguin Group, 1962. Print.
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I agree with you. None of the patients are treated very right by the nurse’s. I think the nurse’s treat them the way they do because they are in an institute so it makes them seem like they are all crazy people, when actually some of them seem to be not very crazy. They have some characteristics that make them crazy but they should all be treated like normal people. The nurses and the doctors are trying to help them get better but it seems like they aren’t. Everything in the institute is very strict like having certain times to go to the bathroom and this could make things worse for some of the patients.
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