Thesis: R.P. McMurphy falsifying himself to become classified insane. Transferred from a correctional facility to a psychiatric ward, McMurphy is a sane as you can be. However, he is rather lazy and content with himself being in an asylum to escape physical labor. Not only is he an unmotivated worker, he also has a small gambling problem, which is very much identified in the book, “and I’m a gambling fool,” (Kesey, 11) says McMurphy …showed first 75 words of 425 total…

…showed last 75 words of 425 total…will also, is that McMurphy is sane to a degree, the same degree that you and I are. Everyone has their dysfunctions to a certain level and maybe we all need a small taste of insanity to keep ourselves sane in a crazy world. Author Ken Kesey gives us that taste by drawing the picture of R.P. McMurphy in our imaginations. Kesey illustrates the actions of McMurphy to be crazy, but definitely not insane.