One Flew over a Cuckoo's Nest
...get all of the patients out. He gives up after realizing that the fate of his survival and his life was in the hands of the authority that he was opposing – the Big Nurse. He starts acting like a normal patient so that he can get on the Nurse’s good side. Cheswick takes McMurphy’s own idea and puts it against the Nurse. McMurphy did not back Cheswick up and Cheswick ended up failing, falling so hard that he his internal wounds caused him to die. This brings McMurphy to a state of realization that these patients need him. He gets all his energy back in him and starts opposing the Nurse with more hatred than ever before. He is the leader again and he gets the guys a field trip to go fishing. This fishing trip ends up summarizing the whole book in metaphors. McMurphy gets the patients to talk up on their own at the gas station and they learn not to be afraid of the world outside. They learn that they are just like anyone else, only in a green “insane asylum” suit. McMurphy stands up for the guys by fighting with an Aide nurse and he gets into a lot of trouble for it. The guys are inspired by his sacrifice and his strength to overcome the “Shock Shop”. They see that they don’t have to forfeit the game if McMurphy doesn’t. McMurphy is eventually moved back from the Disturbed ward. He tries to help Billy Bibbit’s courage by having him sleep with a whore in the asylum. It seems to work until the Big Nurse comes down from a very high altitude right on top of Billy and he crashes to the ground. Just like that Billy Bibbit’s courage is crushed, stepped on and spit on. That’s when Billy Bibbit feels the need to end his own life. After this the Big Nurse tries to use the same method of attack on McMurphy by telling him that it was his fault that Cheswick and Billy were dead. Except she forgets that McMurphy is the “god of the asylum”. This is when McMurphy loses all his temper and starts beating up the Nurse. All of McMurphy’s last fury and anguish is launched in this last attack before he becomes a vegetable in a “Lobotomy accident” and eventually Chief end’s his misery. After this all the voluntary patients leave the ward and this is when McMurphy’s first goal is complete. After Chief starts talking and McMurphy learns that Chief can talk, McMurphy tells Chief that he would make Chief big again so that Chief could lift the control panel. McMurphy then takes Chief under his wing filling him with courage from his own soul, which makes Chief understand life better. Chief starts talking more and isn’t as timid as he used to be. Chief starts becoming less and less like a chronic. He goes everywhere with McMurphy and does everything with McMurphy. McMurphy keeps getting Chief bigger an...