One Flew East, One Flew West, Travis is the Best

I fell behind reading this book at one point and was tempted to spark note it. But I decided that I could not really judge this book until I had read the whole thing, so that is exactly what I did. As I expressed in my last entry, when I was halfway through the book I thought that it was a "cuckoo" book. However, upon reading the book and some further reflection I actually kind of liked One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kessey. With only fifty pages to go I found myself unable to stop reading, mostly because I just wanted to finish, but partly because I wanted to know what would happen in the end. I think that Kessey did a good job at developing a protagonist that though unorthodox, you feel some emotional attachment to the character. After the reading the end of the book I realized that the point of view that the author wrote this novel at is very unique and creative. As the narrator, Chief Brombden, got better and the book became more clear I started to enjoy the book more. I thought that the book had a good ending and that McMurphy dying was the only way that the story could end. If McMurphy was to be used as an intimidation tool towards the others on the ward, it would have destroyed everything that he had worked towards in his few months on the ward. Also his martyrdom that helped to make add to his legend. When people the patients thought about him, they thought about how he died fighting the combine, and so they, in honor of McMurphy, checked out of the hospital a few days later. Though I think that this book is still somewhat racist and anti woman, it was still pretty well written.