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In Ken Keseys mavin Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, a tolerant suffering from schizophrenic disorder was chosen to narrate the story, which greatly affects our lore of the events in the unexampled. The world that Kesey creates in the invigorated is by dint of the eyes of Chief Bromden, a chronic patient in the ward. Bromdens observant record causes for real exposited descriptions of the events in the novel. Chief fakes being deaf, and as a result, he is able to eavesdrop any conversation in the ward, often being able to break up foreshadowing percentage points, and another(prenominal)wise secret info.Although these characteristics make him a reliable bug and a good narrator, Chiefs schizophrenic episodes and paranoid nature create skewed views of reality, with re tout ensembley little distinction as to what is a literary device, or what is literally a hallucination. If the narration were given through a more than rational character, such as McMurphy, the differentiation amidst delusion and actuality would have been more cogent. Using Chief Bromden as a narrator restricts the readers perception of the novel, despite this, a actually reliable and creative perspective of the events is thus created, which gives a huge bunt to the novel.The very detailed accounts of the events make each scene seem more real. As the very descriptive narrator that Bromden is, the world that he describes is very unique. Chief uses the metaphor that the world is a combine in that it takes the unsuitable or less than perfect members of society, mangles, chops, and slashes them into the proper shape and size for accept faculty, and then spits them right back out. In the words of Bromden, The ward is a pulverization for the Combine. Its for fixing up mistakes made in the neighborhoods and in the schools and in the churches, the infirmary is.When a completed product goes back out into society, all firm up good as new, better than new sometimes, it brings joy to the imm ense controls heart. Its these kinds of comparisons made by Bromden that are exclusively his own, and explain the types of views held by the beats generation, such as their views on the d fussinesss of conformity. Despite the extensive detail used in Bromdens descriptions, such as the striking detail used in describing Nurse Ratcheds log book They snoop on each other.Sometimes one man says something about himself that he didnt adopt to slip, and one of his buddies sidles over to the big log book by the Nurses post and writes down the piece of information he heard of- of therapeutic fill to the whole ward, is what the Big Nurse says the book is for But on the other side of the spectrum, Bromdens schizophrenia adds a sort of shroud to the perception that people get from his narrations. So she really lets herself go and her painted grimace twists, stretches to an open snarl, and she blows up bigger and bigger, big as a tractor, so big I prat tonicity the machinery inside the way you smell a motor pulling too big a commit in any other novel, this sort of observation would be passed come to simply as literary devices, but Chief Bromden actually perceives Nurse Ratched as getting bigger as a result of the anger caused by conduct not being followed in her ward.These hallucinations that occur regularly in the novel have a huge affect on the readers perception of events in the novel, because the reader can fellowship through the eyes of a person who is actually mentally ill, which makes the novel and the events within it all the more relevant to those reading it. Utilizing the facade that he was deaf, Bromden would consistently listen in on Nurse Ratched and other members and rung in the ward, and his nonchalant way of doing it made him a very indispensible, intact character to the patch.Most of the foreshadowing events that Chief conveys to the reader was overheard from people in the ward. Believeing he was deaf, Nurse Ratched would ceaselessly, unkno wingly, disclose undercover information to Chief when he would over hear her discussing this information. For example, Chief Bromden overheard the doctors discussing amongst themselves how to best deal with McMurphy and the disruptive behavior that he brought to the ward.The doctors were arguing over weather or not to send him to the queasy branch of the hospital. As the doctors debated amongst themselves, Nurse Ratched eventually intervened, He is simply a man and no more, and is subject to all fears and all the cowardice and all the timidity that any other man is subject to. Given a few more days, I have a strong intent that he will prove this, to us as well as the rest of the patients.If we keep him on the ward I am certain his brashness will subside, his self-made rebellion will dwindle to nothing, and our blond hero will cut himself down to something patients will all be intimate and lose respect for this suggestion made by Mildred foreshadows her intentions for McMurphy, and is a very good example of how Bromdens faking of being Deaf & Dumb adds to his ability and reliability of being able to deliver good perception of the novel to the reader.Ken Keseys choice to use Bromden as a narrator has galore(postnominal) positives and negatives. Bromden is able to act as a very effective channeler of information to the reader, as he is able to secretly eavesdrop on confidential conversations that give light to the shady events that take place in the ward. Bromdens ability to describe and explain events in the novel in such extraordinary detail help the reader better understand the plot and complexities in the story.Despite all of this, Bromdens aggressive mental illness creates numerous defects in the delivery of understanding and sense to the reader. The atmosphere of the ward can often be obstructed by the fog that Bromdens paranoia constantly drags him into, and these brief escapes from reality, although very engaging and intimate, can hinder the reade rs ability to comprehend the content of the novel.Keseys use of hallucinations also countersink up another wall in the perception of the reader, because the differentiation between veracity and phantasm is very hard to make. Overall, Bromdens position as narrator is very successful in delivering the main points and fundamental value of the Beat inspired Kesey, such as the importance of individualism, the dangers of blind conformity, and the inherent human quality of spontaneity.