One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Summary

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was written by Ken Kesey in 1962, I have read up to page 145 or the end of Part 1. The narrator of the book is Chief Bromden, who is a long-term patient in Nurse Ratched’s, or Big Nurse, psychiatric ward. Chief Bromden pretends to be deaf and dumb, allowing him to listen to all the secrets and stories of his inmates. Bromden has been patient at the ward the longest ,second to the Big Nurse, since World War II. At the beginning of the story Bromden tells us the different names the patients have, like Acutes and the Chronics. Acutes are younger patients who doctors believe are sick enough to be fixed. Where he Chronics are divided into Walkers like Bromden, or Wheelers or Vegetables. Chronics are people who can