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Chief Bromden is the deuteragonist of the book and film One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (the former form of which Chief narrates). He is a half-Indigenous fellow patient and close friend of Randle McMurphy. It is shown at the end (after smothering McMurphy to death after he had been lobotomized) that he could lift up that heavy sink, and he breaks out of the asylum so the other patients can flee.

In the film, he is portrayed by the late Will Sampson.

History[]

in the start, Chief Bromden appears to be mute (deaf). However, Chief opens himself, when he befriends Randle Patrick McMurphy, a criminal, that was supposed to be sentenced for battery and rape, however he pleaded insanity, so they put him in the same mental institution as Chief. The two played basketball together, the two helped each other out always, example being when a group of medical staff jumped onto McMurphy, Chief jumped in trying to defend McMurphy. Due to this, both of them got sent to electroconvulsive therapy, where Chief spoke for the first time to Randle McMurphy.

However, in the end after Randle McMurphy tried to murder Mildred Ratched, as punishment, they gave Randle McMurphy a lobotomy. When Chief saw his best friend, chief in tears took out a pillow, and smothered Randle Patrick McMurphy with it, to pull Randle Patrick McMurphy out of his misery. Out of anger, Chief breaks the window of the medical ward, and escapes running for his life, into the freedom, alongside other patients.

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