Fighting back with Big Nurse and actually following through with their plan shows that each patient has the freedom to think for themselves as Big Nurse’s restrictive grasp is starts to loosen. On the boat, the patients start laughing for the first time in years when they are trying to catch a fish. Bromden describes, “I could look down and see myself and the rest of the guys… swinging in laughter that rang out on the water in ever-widening circles, farther and farther, until it crashed up on beaches all over the coast…” (Kesey 215). For the first time in years, the “mentally ill” patients experience an authentic, powerful, and booming laughter when they are finally out of the hospital. Laughter is a crucial part of “society’s normal” because laughter goes hand in hand with the freedom that “society’s normal” promises. In general, people laugh when they are overwhelmed with joy and amusement that their emotions must be physically released. The saying “Laughter is the best medicine,” because it is a way where people can release all of their
Fighting back with Big Nurse and actually following through with their plan shows that each patient has the freedom to think for themselves as Big Nurse’s restrictive grasp is starts to loosen. On the boat, the patients start laughing for the first time in years when they are trying to catch a fish. Bromden describes, “I could look down and see myself and the rest of the guys… swinging in laughter that rang out on the water in ever-widening circles, farther and farther, until it crashed up on beaches all over the coast…” (Kesey 215). For the first time in years, the “mentally ill” patients experience an authentic, powerful, and booming laughter when they are finally out of the hospital. Laughter is a crucial part of “society’s normal” because laughter goes hand in hand with the freedom that “society’s normal” promises. In general, people laugh when they are overwhelmed with joy and amusement that their emotions must be physically released. The saying “Laughter is the best medicine,” because it is a way where people can release all of their