This is Signe but I'm on Lucy Green's email because I have a gmail name thats super embarrassing.

Anyways, I am reading One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. I haven't gotten all that far yet, but we also haven't gotten all that far in the movie. So far it seems like the biggest difference would be that the book 's narrator is the Chief, also the physicality of Nurse Ratched, though both Nate and Sarah covered that. So I thought I'd talk a bit about the book in terms of when it was published (context) because I was reading about it and I thought it was pretty interesting and relevant to understanding the novel. The books was published during the 60's and the way Nurse Ratched runs the ward is similar to the totalitarian societies the US was opposing at the time. Kesey the author expresses rebellion against the authority/ norm, but he seems to have also been sort of a hippy, so I don't think he was really agreeing with the US's decisions either. I also read that he started taking LSD as part of some sort of drug testing program, which sparked his interest in "alternative methods of perception" which brought him to a job at a mental hospital where he often talked to patients, being that his story features a mental hospital and the narrator is someone who definitely has experienced some alternate perceptions, I would gather that his experiences as well as the time period were the building blocks for this novel. Though I am not very far I would gather that the author strongly favors the Chief/ McMurphy and that they will sort of win out over Nurse Ratched, maybe not literally like defeat her but at least the idea of her like they end up on top in a sense (or at least I hope they do because she is RACHET.)