Ken Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest :: One Flew Over Cuckoos Nest

Ken Kesey and One Flew Over the Cuckoos go up        One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, with its meaningful message of individualism, was an extremely influential brisk during the 1960s.  In addition, its author, Ken Kesey, played a significant role in the development of the counterculture of the 60s this included all people who did not conform to societys standards, experimented in drugs, and just lived their lives in an unconventional manner.  Ken Kesey had many significant experiences that enabled him to farm One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.  As a result of his entrance into the fictive writing program at Stanford University in 1959 (Ken 1), Kesey moved to Perry Lane in Menlo Park.  It was there that he and other writers first experimented with psychedelic drugs.  After upkeep at Perry Lane for a term, Keseys friend, Vik Lovell, informed him about experiments at a local V.A. hospital in which volunteers were paid to take mind- altering drugs (Wolfe 321). Keseys experiences at the hospital were his first step towards writing Cuckoos Nest.  Upon testing the effects of the thence little-known drug, LSD, ...he was in a realm of consciousness he had never woolgather of before and it was not a dream or delirium tho part of his awareness (322).  This awareness caused him to believe that these psychedelic drugs could enable him to put one over things the way they were truly meant to be seen.        After works as a test subject for the hospital, Kesey was able to get a job working as a psychiatric aide.  This was the next significant factor in writing the book.  Sometimes he would go to work high on acid (LSD) (323).  By doing so, he was able to understand the pain snarl by the patients on the ward. In addition, the job allowed him to examine everything that went on inwardly the confines of the hospital.  From these things, Kesey obtained exceptional in sight for writing One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.  To assume the novel seem as realistic as possible, he generally based the characters on the personalities of people in the ward also, his use of drugs while writing allowed him to make scenes such as Chief Bromdens (The Chief is the storyteller of the story.