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Dean Moriarty: The Transformation Of Sal Paradise

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In this novel one thing that I found interesting was transformation of Sal Paradise from a person who first followed then turned into “the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved”(5), people who lived in the moment and did whatever they like to do . At the begging of the novel, he had life of a regular writer from New York, who only dreamed about wild adventures but could not act. Everything changes then moment he meets Dean Moriarty. Even though Dean was a con-man, in Sal’s eyes he was “the holy con-man with shining mind” (5) - a hero. One could call Dean a trickster from picaresque stories, who doesn’t follow social rules and morals, and tricks others in order to survive. However, he didn’t steal to get rich. Sal admired

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