A leader has the ability to rally confidence and conviction in his fellow supporters. Leaders are scattered throughout history, influencing changes and leading oppressed masses to freedom. Every movement has its leader, its focal point, the one person that leads by example, serving as a role model in times of difficulty and hardship. In Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Randle Patrick McMurphy is thrust into a leadership role in a psychiatric ward. …showed first 75 words of 1717 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1717 total…no longer a collective mass to be molded and ordered around, rather, each patient has come into his own as an expressive individual. Through learning how to apply the lessons that a leader has taught, the oppressed learn how to lead themselves, and although the leader was an essential spark to the process, the process is only continued and completed when the "followers" disengage themselves from the practices of mimicry and become leaders for themselves.