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Course Hero. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Study Guide." Course Hero. 28 July 2016. Web. 4 June 2023. <https://www.coursehero.com/lit/One-Flew-Over-the-Cuckoos-Nest/>.
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Course Hero. (2016, July 28). One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Study Guide. In Course Hero. Retrieved June 4, 2023, from https://www.coursehero.com/lit/One-Flew-Over-the-Cuckoos-Nest/
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Course Hero. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Study Guide." July 28, 2016. Accessed June 4, 2023. https://www.coursehero.com/lit/One-Flew-Over-the-Cuckoos-Nest/.
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Course Hero, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Study Guide," July 28, 2016, accessed June 4, 2023, https://www.coursehero.com/lit/One-Flew-Over-the-Cuckoos-Nest/.
Ken Kesey
1962
Novel
Fiction
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is told from the first-person point of view of Bromden, a long-term patient at an Oregon psychiatric hospital. Bromden is prone to hallucinations, establishing him as an unreliable narrator.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is told primarily in the present tense.
The line "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" is from a children's folk rhyme that Bromden's grandmother used to sing to him. The cuckoo bird is also associated with insanity.
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