Chapter XIV A Miracle in Seven Days Summary and Analysis

During the party with the Hells Angels as guests, three young Unitarian ministers, referred to as the Young Turks, observe the events. Of these three, Paul Sawyer decides to invite Kesey to the California Unitarian Church conference as a participant. When he arrives at the seven-day conference, set in a campground, the bus and Pranksters put off the older Unitarians. The teenage Unitarians crowd around the bus and join with the Pranksters, thus reflecting the rift, dubbed later as the Generation Gap, between the young and older people of the period.

The women in the conference find Kesey to be very attractive, and the men notice. Tension continues to build as Kesey describes on stage how he wants to work a miracle in seven days. Sawyer meets Mountain Girl...