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 ... 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 named Terry on the bus. They are attracted to each other and stay together in Los Angeles. Terry...

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... poets, writers, thinkers, and philosophers who emerged on the hip scene in the 1940s and ballooned into the San Francisco Renaissance and beyond. It describes how even though the original beats were few in number, many "movements" in literary history often happened when a cluster of a few writers, tied together by time more than space, uncovered a new path or road of writing style and content. This is ... what the beats did: they went against mainstream, traditional writing, but not because they were rebellious. They simply developed a new way of writing, a "New Vision" while in search ...

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... 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 ... But they feel that they have to experience everything , they travel to Denver, Mexico, San Francisco, New Orleans and many little towns along the way. The meet many different people along their trips and most of them even though t...

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