What was Kesey Thinking? Perhaps he had a Little too much Acid

Last night I was staring at my book willing myself to read at one in the morning when I noticed something very peculiar. I was receiving all of the opposite vibes about the world the book takes place in than the vibes provided in the actual book. Now I don’t know if you have taken a look at the book yet, however, it is a picture of a human figure standing on the roof of a colorful purplish building, who appears to be staring at a dark, brown, forlorn sky. What I mean by giving the opposite vibes is that, at least in my mind, the sky represents the outside world, the building represents the world the patients live inside the hospital, and the man represents the people trapped in the hospital, longing to rejoin society. Yet this scene is what bothers me most, first of all we found out quite recently that a strong majority of the acute patients in the hospital are there by choice, and therefore do not have such an urge to rejoin society that I feel the cover implies. Furthermore, the dark, opaqueness of the sky, which as I said earlier I feel references the outside world, makes it seem as if the world is a horrible dark place which will only disappoint the patients, yet in the previous section throughout the majority of the time the patients spent in the outside world, they both enjoyed their experience and their conditions improved, thereby giving a far more positive view of the outside world than portrayed by the cover. Finally, what really frustrates me is the colorful building which I can only believe represents the hospital. I have yet to see any reason why the hospital would have some sort of positive portrayal, it seems to me that the hospital is a very dark, horrible place, what with all the lobotomies and electroshock therapy going on, with an evil nurse who seems hell bent on making the patients’ lives unbearable added in for good measure. Seeing how the cover and the actual book give such different portrayals of the patients’ world, I see only two reliable explanations for this predicament. First, is the possibility that being so caught up as a test subject with drugs and his strong connection to the patients, that Kesey has recreated the patients’ delusional view of the world on his cover, showing the psychopath’s failed understanding of society. The second is perhaps that Kesey was under the strong influence of his favorite drugs, thus causing such a distorted view from the book and creating a strange confusing view of the world.