Rebel, superman, bull goose loony: the hero as adolescent.(Ken Kesey's novel 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's')(Critical essay)

Northwest Review | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

Although not written specifically for adolescent readers, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has now joined Great American Novels like Huckleberry Finn, The Awakening, The Great Gatsby, and Catcher in the Rye on high-school reading lists. In theory, anyway, these portrayals of romantic rebellion, escape, and sacrifice should appeal to the young. All have protagonists challenging social norms to one degree or another, albeit in pursuit of cultural ideals like freedom, individualism, and personal fulfillment. In addition, as literary heroes, all of them--and most explicitly ...

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