... American life as morally bankrupt. They praised individualism as the highest human goal"(The World Book Encyclopedia 428). This perspective was present in poetry and literature through out the beat movement. One of the most important works produced during the beat movement was Jack Kerouac's On The Road. In the novel Jack Kerouac's alter ego Sal Paradise represents the American man who realizes he doesn't want to ... and smoking marijuana"(Nicosia 102). Having the means by which he escapes, the question still remains what is Kerouac trying to escape? In order to understand this we must e...

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... , and England- (Jack Kerouac: Dharma). During this time of travel, Kerouac wrote constantly. In 1951, he wrote On the Road, which was finally published in 1957. On the Road was a stylistic breakthrough for Kerouac who had developed a theory of writing he called, spontaneous prose. "He defined that as a sketch or landscape to start a novel-(Kerouac Spontaneous Prose). His writings were the beginning to his new beliefs and influences. Jack Kerouac was influenced by the usage of ... his alcohol addiction. He is missed by many, but is still known as "The Dharma Bum" or the author of On the R...

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... it was written until now is the modern classic On the Road, the second novel of one of the most controversial writers of his time Jack Kerouac. The book is considered the first work of the Beat Generation, the name that was given to his small group of friends, that were also writers, of the Columbia University. There are many publishers that confirm the importance of On the RoadFor example, Synopsis tells us ... , how he had to leave me there" (Kerouac, 302). How realistic is the story? The probability scheme of the story is most realistic; for it is based on the writer's own travel exper...

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... as advice in my journey through life. On the Road, written by an ingenious free-spirit of the 50's and 60's, Jack Kerouac. In the time of the 50's and 60's when the average American was drinking Coca Cola, enjoying TV dinners, and watching I love Lucy on their black and white television there was Jack Kerouac, behind the scenes. A man completely ahead of his time, at the right time in America. At a time ... when the country was wide open with society and ... was soon to be called, "the Beat Generation". He wrote the book On the Road in three weeks although it took him seven years of s...

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Jack Kerouac's On The Road. This book is essentially made up of four parts, that is, four journeys chronicled by a young writer, Sal Paradise. We also experience his feelings in both the lead-ups and follow-ups to his journeys. His first journey is when he heads west from his college life in the east. We find Sal discontented with his everyday life, he feels his college life has ... worry", we can see that Dean and Sal choose to worry about very little and seem to latch themselves on to the world at the most primitive level, as traveling bums with no responsibilities. Sal, however, only lives...

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On The Road By Jack Kerouac On the Road, by Jack Kerouac was considered to be the first "beat" novel. The lifestyle of beats is explained as going against mainstream norms. The two main characters in the novel Dean and Sal both go against normal society. On the Road was written during a time when mainstream society was in to materialistic possessions. The average person was concerned with having a good paying job and raising a family in the suburbs. Beatniks had the complete opposite goals ... in life then the average person. Beats wanted to be ... ...

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On The Road by Jack Kerouac 1957 Sal Paradise, the narrator of the story, is miserable and fed up with his mundane life when he meets a young man named Dean Moriarty during the winter of 1947. Dean is wild, irresponsible, and newly married to a girl named Marylou. Before long, Marylou and Dean split up and Dean goes to stay with Sal in New ... San Francisco. When he arrives there, Sal stays with his friend Remi Boncoeur and his girlfriend Lee Ann outside of San Francisco. Sal is unhappy staying with the bickering couple and decides to take the bus out of California. He meets a pretty girl na...

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I read the book "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac The Main characters in this book are Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise. The book takes place in 1947 and goes through 3 years to 1950. Sal is a writer and Dean just got out of jail when the story starts , neither of the men have much money or have rich families so they usually have no money, but they travel throughout the entire story either hitchhiking ... or try to buy a junk car. The story is told by Sal, so it is not always pointed out very good when the do stuff they shouldn't, like drugs and sleep with women they barely know. But they feel that...

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... a beautiful work of art. It takes courage and a great deal of confidence to write a book that is surely to be the subject of a great deal of criticism. Jack Kerouac's book, On The Road, raised many eyebrows. Although it appealed to a great number of people, it also angered many other people. This story tells about a young man named Sal that encounters many different types ... of people as he travels back and forth across the United States. His life is spent on the road and that's where he is at peace. He is ... popular. What also appealed to the youth of the 50's was the Beats defiance...

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