Jack Kerouac Essays

lifestyle of limit pushing and rule breaking. From his childhood, he had always been testing boundaries. By the time he was 18, it is estimated he had stolen over 500 cars, just for fun. Cassady, through a close friendship beginning at age 20 with Jack Kerouac and a twisted relationship with Allen Ginsberg, provided much of the inspiration for the quintessential Beat poems and texts. Even his correspondence with the two of them is considered Beat literature, for it encapsulates the ideals and attitudes

       The women in Jack Kerouac's On The Road were, it seems, not afforded the same depth in character which the author gave the men. The treatment of the women characters in both word and action by Sal and Dean seems to show that women could only be a virgin/mother figure or a whore. Throughout the novel there are many instances in which women and their feelings or actions are either referred to flippantly or blatantly degraded. It can be said, however, that Sal (Kerouac) did not necessarily agree

sunflowers in a dirty railroad yard. And finally, Jack Kerouac in his book The Dharma Bums portrays the masses as "sedentary bums"(86) and as "millions of the One Eye"(104).   All of these images of mass society have a tone of despair and depression. People are shown to be weary and confused, having lost the passion for life. Brautigan and Barthelme seem most concerned with the concept of a class struggle; their masses are poor and bitter. Kerouac is more concerned with the lazy masses that

Many writers in the group later renounced the term when they felt it lost its meaning. It took the beats a long time before they gained fame however. Jack Kerouac's novel, On the Road, went through many different publishers before anyone agreed to print it. When it did come out it was heavily criticized by the press. In the 1950's the lifestyle that On the Road explored was considered deviant. "The

Impact of Dean on Sal's Identity in On the Road     In part I, chapter 3 of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Sal arrives at Des Moines and checks into a cheap, dirty motel room. He sleeps all day and awakens in time to witness the setting sun. As he looks around the unfamiliar room, Sal realizes that he doesn't understand his own identity. Identity lost, he states "I was half way across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future." He has lost the calming

audience’s mind. A lot of the enlightening controversies that the poem examines are disputed even today. Ginsberg was a leftist who approved of Communism as an international worker’s crusade, if not its exhibition in the Soviet Union. In On the Road, Jack Kerouac named Ginsberg’s character “Carlo Marx,” after Karl Marx, the author of The Communist Manifesto. Howl by Ginsberg presents sufficient proof of Ginsberg’s Marxist ideology, which examines class connections and societal disagreement using a materialist

Kerouac wrote the novel On the Road in late 1940s. The beat generation is a lost generation of disillusioned young men looking for freedom and self-expression. Jack Kerouac is the famous and most prominent writer who portrays his journey across America in his Novel. Thesis statement The novel explains how the beats are often criticized for their behavior, which is in particularly concerning drug use and sex. Here I explain how Kerouac and the beats experience those tensions. Kerouac and the Beats

Jack Kerouac's On the Road:  Ranting of a Maniac or Precise Interpretation of Reality?            Jack Kerouac's On the Road is considered the bible of the Beat Generation, illustrating the wild, wandering, and reckless lifestyle chosen by many young people of the time. Despite all of Dean and Sal's partying and pleasure-cruising, On the Road ends up being a sad and disturbing story. During all the trips, through the good times and the bad times, there is a sense of darkness and foreboding

Jack Kerouac does an excellent job of commenting on the 1950’s American society through his novel ‘On The Road’. Kerouac bases his novel in a era in which American society is experiencing significant changes in values and lifestyle. The novel follows a group of friends while they explore what it means to live American life “on the road”. During their travels, they explore sexuality, define their morals, and learn how unattainable true happiness really is. Kerouac develops very complex characters

The novel On the road, written by Jack Kerouac is an autobiographical book about a part of his life. The plot is about road tripping around the United States looking for some ideologies of enjoying youth generation in the late forties and the early fifties. The author is one of the most important writers of the “Beat Generation”, that is advocating the sexual liberation and the youth lifestyle in the sixties. The story sets in the United States of America and tell the story of the protagonist, Sal