On The Road Thesis

The only way this novel should be used in curriculum is to teach about privilege and how it can have a positive impact on very few individuals, but an extremely negative impact on far more. Kerouac uses characterization, a specific style and tone, and structure to show how Sal lives his life as a privileged white male in the late 1940s. Each of these topics help to prove how his privilege becomes ignorance, and how he glorifies the unfair lives of the less fortunate and those of color. The story is very unique and helps to provide insight on these topics, but often does so in an unsuitable way. Overall, this novel portrays privilege in a way that exposes how it can cause the romanticization of the unfair and impoverished life of those who are oppressed or a

Then Sal meets Dean; a wild, roguish character, and is so enchanted by him that he believes he can shape his own identity through being ‘like’ Dean. Hence, Sal takes to the road, planning to follow in Dean’s footsteps.

One of the most significant external forces that changed Sal was the road trip. In the beginning of the story Sals mom had left her and her dad on an April morning. Then later on in the story her grandparents take her on a road trip to Lewiston so she can see her mom. On the road trip she doesn't want to believe her mother is dead but throughout the story she starts to realize that her mother might be dead. On page 249, the author wrote, “A bus when the of the road here a year ago,” he said. “Skidded right there, coming out of the last turn, and went sliding of this here overlook and through the railing and rolled over and over into those trees. A helluva thing. When I came home that night rescuers were still hacking their way throug the brush to get to in. Only one person survived, ya know.” I knew.” This shows that sal is starting to realize that her mother died on the bus crash. And if Sal didn't want to believe her mother was dead she would have said “no I don't know” instead of I knew. This changed Sal

The beats are relaxing, which is contrary to what he is saying because the character of the song, the stoner is looking for peace and the life he wants. Although Kid Cudi again and again talks about the stoner the way he describes the details and how he speaks in first person tells us that he is actually talking about himself. The stoner feels alone and keeps searching for the life he once imagined.

In the story it says,”We’re back in Bybanks now.”(Creech 260) When Sal says this, she has a sense of happiness and satisfaction about her home. The story states,”Gramps is giving me driving lessons… on the ranch.” (Creech 271) Sal shows how she enjoys her small but perfect ranch, she finally gets settled down and shows appreciation about her old home. Sal also says, “I reread all my postcards when I came home”(Creech 274) Sal settles down, and appreciates her home which connects with her mom’s postcards. Sal’s home sweet home has a lot of meaning to her because she can settle back down again after her

Sal loves her home in Bybanks, Kentucky and she is disappointed that she has to leave. This creates an external conflict when Sal and her father had to physically move to Euclid, Ohio. Creech also includes, “Everybody kept touching my hair. ‘Don’t you ever cut it?’ they said. ‘Can you sit on it?’... is it naturally black like that?’ (11). Sal is disturbed by everyone circulating her and does not like all of the attention on her, especially when it has to do with questioning her looks. This creates an internal conflict when Sal is bothered by the attention that she is receiving from her fellow classmates. This makes Sal feel uncomfortable because she never gets all of the opinions from others drawn towards her. Creech then states, “I wanted everything it was. I wanted to be back in Bybanks, Kentucky, in the hills and the trees,… (15). She realizes

That causes external conflict. Sal’s dad never told her about them going to move to ohio by mrs.cadaver.and there house is small has one tree and small patch of grass. “Where are the trees”? I said. Where's the barn”?. Where's the river where's the swimming hole”?. Sal does not know why her father did not tell her about the move and her mom and mrs.cadaver. “I asked why my father had not told me how he had met mrs.cadaver and she said he didn't want to upset you”. When sal didn't know about Mrs.cadaver,the bus, or her mom she was angry,and mad at her dad but now she gets why her father moved them he did it for

Sal changes because she eventually accepts her mom's death. Sal went on a road trip with gram and gramps to see her mom on her birthday but on they’re way there grams got bit by a snake and she had to go to the hospital because she had a stroke. Sal still wanted to go see her mom but gramps had to stay there with grams. Gramps knew that Sal wanted to see her mom so he gave her his keys to his car and Sal started driving but like two hours later after driving the cop pulled her over and she had to get in the cop car with the cop. The cop took Sal to her mom's grave. Then the cop takes her home and Sal comes to her senses and realized that she is jealous of three things after she says what she is jealous of she says “I miss my mom.” this quote shows that she accepts her mom's

No matter where you go in the world, people are divided. They can be divided by their wealth or state of living these are social class. In the novel “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton social classes a very apparent the rich and the poor. In The Outsiders, social classes create a divide in the community. The isolation of these two groups leads to the tension and violence that is seen in the book.

“Gramps says that I am a country girl at heart, and that is true.”(Creech 1). Sal has always loved Bybanks, but the reason why changes throughout the book. In Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech uses the setting of Bybanks to change Sal with nature, memories of her mom, and her grandmother’s resting place.

Why do you think McCarthy has chosen not to give his characters names? How do the generic labels of “the man” and “the boy” affect the way you /readers relate to them?

The beat generation was a movement that sought to oppose American society values, and any sort of control. They explored Eastern religions, was somewhat postmodernism, rejected the materialistic culture, spoke about drugs, our conscious mind, and fought for sexual liberation and exploration with their unapologetically offensive language. While reading the novel Jitterbug Perfume written by Tom Robbin, one can witness how the novel exhibits aspects of the beat literature, and thus concluding that the beat generation served as inspiration to Tom Robbin.

Ken Kesey was a part of The Beat generation and many of their ideologies and the socio cultural context of U.S post WWII were evident through characters and various discourses throughout One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, giving us his invited reading.

The Beat Generation was one of the first groups of writers to break down the barriers of traditional literature and set a precedent for future writers with their writing style, their way of life, and by the messages they portrayed. They were the kids dressed in black, hanging out at coffee shops, reading their latest poetry. They

The Beat Movement, beginning in the 1950’s, consisted of a group of American writers that went against the social norms of that generation. During that time in America, society bent themselves out