A Reflection of Sur

Ron Blake also stays, who is just an annoyance. Pomeray forces Jack to see this horrible play that his wife has been involved with, Jack hates it with a passion. Cody makes Billie, his friend, and Jack to meet. They hit it off almost immediately and are making love in a few hours. The only problem is that Billie already has a boy, Elliot, who thinks Jack will not be a very good father figure. Billie doesn't notice this as her and Jack begin to speak about marriage plans. To test compatibility, Jack takes Billie and Elliot to Big Sur with him, along with Dave Wain and his girlfriend Ramona Swartz. .
             Back at Big Sur again, the chemistry is wrong. Jack is still in a horrible frame of mind. Nobody knows what to do with Elliot, and Billie is whining about Jack's reluctance to marry her. Drunk and unable to find inner peace, he cracks up and concludes that everyone is in a plot to kill him. Dave tries to cook a fish, but fails, so Jack believes he is in on the plot too. That night is the worst of Jack's life. A horrible sleepless night. Roaming around to get tired, Jack goes outside and sees a vision of a cross, this vision still does not stop the horrors in his life. The morning after the vision, Jack forces everyone to go home. They dig a hole for garbage, but Jack freaks out and thinks it is a coffin for Elliot. .
             At the end of the book nothing has been gained, but lots has been lost. There is a change of belief, in the beginning; Jack believes Buddha can save is soul. But near the end he realizes that nothing can save him, and that he will never be able to go back into nature again in fear of life itself. The book concludes with "Sea," the poem I mentioned that supposedly captures the sounds and words of the Pacific Ocean. .
             Jack Kerouac.
             Jack Kerouac was born Jean-Louis Kerouac, a French-Canadian on March 12, 1922, in Lowell, Massachusetts. Youngest of three children, heartbroken when his brother died at the age of nine.