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...

• Word Count: 1009
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

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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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 434
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School