#1: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey is a book that expresses how the times of the 1960's were a time of rebellion against the authorities in America. A time of hippies and protests. This is show through McMurphey and his constant challenging of Nurse Ratchet who is the "Big Nurse" and calls all of the shots and when her authority is challenged she would pull back and try to restrict the patients even more which then caused the patients to rebel even more. An example of how the patients feel as though they have no choice in what happens to them is when Harding says, "This world... belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in this ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong."
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