The Cuckoo's Nest: The Impact Of Book Bans On Humanity

The Impact of Book Bans on Humanity's Progress and Potential Consequences

Is banning books good for humanity or can it lead to bigger problems? By banning books, it will cut away certain things that a child could learn from, just like the literary value and in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” by Ken Kesey. Some can be bad and lead to unpleasant habits, but they can also be taken as a lesson and be learned from. Kesey uses a lot of literary value in his novel, but Kesey’s novel should not be taught in schools because the use of objectionable material outweighs the use of literary value in which can lead to children using those objectionable material in reality.

Kesey’s novel is an engrossing book that is set inside a “Oregon State Hospital”

Kesey’s novel has many Literary Values that children can learn from some of them are Allusion, Symbolism, and Characterization. How Kesey’s uses Allusion in his novel is he uses the main character Randle McMurphy as a Christ like figure this could be good for kids to learn about Christianity if that is there religion. However public schools are not enforced to instruct children about Christianity or other beliefs. “Two of the twentieth century’s most controversial Supreme Court decisions held that public schools could not sponsor devotional prayer and Bible reading as part of their educational program” (Greenawalt). If children or their parents want them to learn about Christianity, they could go to a private Christan school and or go to Chruch to learn about Christ. Another Literary Value that Kesey uses is Symbolism. Kesey uses symbolism to symbolize a message visually even when they did not illustrate his work on it. One of the things that Kesey uses to symbolize something is the fog in the novel. It symbolizes the patients lack for being the reason that the patients are stick from reality is because one of the other main characters Nurse Ratched is feeding the drugs to control them because she wants to feel like she has power and authority over everyone. The last Literary Value that Kesey uses is characterization writers use characterization to show how characters build over time just like anyone can better

The first example of objectionable material is the use of offensive language. One way that offensive language is brought up in Kesey's novel is swear words. It is bad for books and many other things like movies to have swear words because when young adults and children are opened to that they tend to start using it in their vocabulary, which could lead to someone getting offended. In Kesey’s novel he puts the word bitch into the novel at least fourteen times. Many people use to not care about this word as it was originally meant another word for a female dog, but nowadays people are using it for a way to offend females in the world. Another objectionable material that Kesey uses in his writing is violence. A way that violence is introduced is Kesey describes many scenes with gore and or something that shows abuse. Gore and abuse can lead children into a bad environment such as if they are open into an environment with drug use, offensive language, gore, abuse, etc. that can lead to them picking up that habit and start doing it themselves. Another example of violence that is in Kesey's novel is sexual situations. Some of the characters in the novel have either been involved with a rape or had watched a rape happen. In one scene in