1. The Thing about the Beats
... other things, like Synopsis point out: "It chronicles a spontaneous and wandering life style founded both on jazz and drug-induced vision" (amazon.com-#2). The first stage is about his first trip leaving New York to get to San Francisco to meet his friend Dean Moriarty. He starts hitchhiking for awhile, ... and he just says: "I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a naturalborn thief. I was getting the bug myself" (Kerouac, 72). The most perfect example is at the end of the novel, when Dean leaves Sal, who is very sick, in Mexico City with Stan to get married with Inez....
- Word Count: 3797
- Approx Pages: 15
- Grade Level: High School