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Part 1

• The narrator of the story is Chief Broom.

• Nurse Ratched flies into rage when she sees the black boys talking instead of cleaning.

• Nurse Ratched tells the staff to shave Chief Broom's head before breakfast.

• Chief Broom is locked into solitary confinement.

• McMurphy is admitted to the mental ward.

• There are two groups of patients - the Acutes and the Chronics.

• McMurphy and Harding banter over who is the bull goose loony.

• There is a Group Meeting that begins with Harding's sexual issues with his wife.

• McMurphy wins everyone's cigarettes while playing cards, but then lets them win them back.

• McMurphy is the first patient out of bed, singing and laughing.

• McMurphy threatens to drop his towel for Nurse Ratched when she asks him to not walk around in a towel.

• Nurse Ratched and McMurphy battle for control.

• McMurphy begins to plan to watch the World Series...

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