The students learn that war is not noble - it is no more than cruel death and destruction.Katczkinsky explains how foolish it was for one of the recruits to go and retrieve his friend - the corpse of the dead man.Her car filled with dirt and debris and she suffocated to death.Distraught by her death, he ignored his father""s cautionary warning about interfering with human history and instead took the advice of his earthly step-father ("You are here for a reason").McMurphy violates one of the cardinal rules by entering the Nurse""s Station to turn down the loud volume on the piped-in music.Bad Day at Black Rockwas based on the short story "Bad Time at Hondo" by Howard Breslin and adapted by Don McGuire.