ef Bromden is so disgusted by the "new" behavior of McMurphy that he puts him out of his misery by suffocating McMurphy with a pillow. Chief then breaks a window and escapes the institution.Through McMurphy's teachings and death, the Chief gained the courage to act independently and became free. Ting. Tingle, tingle, tremble, toes, she's a good fisherman, catches hens, puts'em inna pens... wire blier, limber lock, three geese inna flock... one flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest... O-U-T spells out... goose swoops down and plucks you out. (Kesey 272)The quote is significant because it contains the title of the book and movie. Chief is the cuckoo bird that is swooped out by McMurphy, the goose, who teaches the bird to be free, to fly O-U-T. A hidden meaning in the quote has to do with the cuckoo bird. A cuckoo bird is crazy and does not construct a nest of its own. When a cuckoo bird needs to lay it's egg, it will fly until it finds an empty nest. It will lay its eggs and then leave them to be cared for by the owner of the nest to be cared for. The significance of a cuckoo's nest is there is no such thing as a cuckoo's nestThe movie portrays the same ideas but some scenes are different. One major difference was that the movie was not narrated through Chief Bromden. It would be to hard to make a film that way. So the movie didn't give the same feeling. Some scenes are clearly different, such as in the book he gets permission go on a fishing trip while in the movie he steals a bus and drives the patients from the ward. The description of the main characters are also different. McMurphy in the book is a huge red-headed Irish man, but in the movie he is Jack Nicholson. In the movie the "Big Nurse" isn't so big, the book describes her much better as an intimidating character. The rest of the characters in the book are similar to the movie. The book was much better than the movie because it developed th...
