The feeling of winning and losing in the novel "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" By Ken Kesey. McMurphy and patients win, the Big Nurse loses.

Title: The feeling of winning and losing in the novel "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" By Ken Kesey. McMurphy and patients win, the Big Nurse loses.
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The feeling of winning and losing in the novel "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" By Ken Kesey. McMurphy and patients win, the Big Nurse loses.

        The game is called life and the prize is a feeling of belonging in the world. The patients in the mental ward of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest have always lost because the game is rigged against them by the Big Nurse and the "combine" of society. Her tools are pills, intimidation, electroshock therapy and lobotomies. The patients' luck changes when a stranger named McMurphy is brought to the ward and turns …showed first 75 words of 714 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 714 total…eventual but assured success in the game of life. The Big Nurse, as hard as she tried, lost her rigged game of control and is the clear loser in the round of the game displayed in the book. We cannot say she lost for good, the game is never-ending and the other patients can only hold out their victory by remembering what McMurphy instilled in them. McMurphy gave them hope and a sense of self.

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