Neal Cassady

This particular post is to isolate a single being. Jack Kerouac, an American novelist and poet. Born in the year of March 12th, 1922, of a French Canadian breed. Born Lowell, Massachusetts. Raised as a Catholic. The youngest the of the three children immigrants deriving from Quebec. In later times, favoured to be somewhat of a literary iconoclast. Defying religious figures and other political escapades, a colonist of the Beat Generation. Coupled with partners from the likes of William S Burroughs

Omoo & On the Road: Dealing with the “primordial” Introduction The motif of the journey and the research of the “original”, “primordial” principle is a reoccurring theme present since the birth of the literature. Whether it is Native Americans with the “Trickster” cycle (Velie,1991) or whether it is Goethe inquiring the concept of “Urpflanze”, or the archetypal plant (Davis, R. 2010): Every text seems to add something to this idealistic research,

The essay entitled “The Beat Generation ans San Francisco's Culture of Dissent” by Nancy J. Peters, talks about the Beat Generation, Bohemianism and other issues in the '90's that affected America's literature and poetry today. The Beat Generation emerged in the 1950's and they were a group of artist's, writer's and poets. The term “beat” was coined by Jack Kerouac, author and poet, who is perhaps the most recognized name and face of the group.There were many recurring topics in the Beats' poetry

In A Mexico Fellaheen from Lonesome Traveler, Jack Kerouac describes crossing the border between America and Mexico: "It's a great feeling of entering the Pure Land, especially because it's so close to dry faced Arizona and Texas and all over the Southwest B but you can find it, this feeling, this fellaheen feeling about life, that timeless gayety of people not involved in great cultural and civilization issues" (22). Mexico is at once "close to" America and yet distinct from it, a "Pure Land" removed

Good art never dies, but rather lingers on in the minds of the society. Allan Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” has relevance many years after it was written. “Howl” is a poem, and a story about the history of the beat generation, and the philosophies of the beat poets. At the time that Howl was written America was in the middle of the cold war, and conservatism was the norm. The shocking nature and vulgar language of “Howl” makes the poem unique during a time when having hair your hair long, or even having

The Beat Movement started out in the late 40’s and continued for another decade, it would later evolve into the Hippie Movement. Many of the things that the Hippies believed in the Beats also held to be true. The Beats had a great lack of respect for authority and traditional American values. They would attempt to convince people that this was the way to live life and to reject the way that they used to live. The Beat Movement was mostly comprised of authors, artists, and musicians. The members

Importance of Mountains in Kerouac's Dharma Bums and Barthelme's The Glass Mountain     Mountains are significant in the writing of Jack Kerouac and Donald Barthelme as symbolic representations of achievement and the isolation of an individual from the masses of the working class in industrialized capitalist American society. The mountains, depicted by Kerouac and Barthelme, rise above the American landscape as majestic entities whose peaks are touched by few enduring and brave souls

The Character of Dean Moriarty in On the Road   Part two of Jack Kerouac's novel, On the Road, gives the reader, for the first time, a close look at the character Dean Moriarty. This section of the novel begins when Dean, his ex-wife Marylou, and his friend Ed, meet up with his closer friend, Sal, at Sal's brother's house in Virginia. Sal had not seen Dean for over a year when they suddenly show up on the doorstep. Sal sums up their tale by saying, "So now Dean had come about four thousand miles

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

Anti-Consumerism in the Works of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Roth   After World War II, Americans became very concerned with "keeping up with the Joneses." Everyday people were not only interested in fulfilling the American Dream because of the optimistic post-war environment, but also because of the economic emphasis on advertising that found a new outlet daily in highway billboards, radio programs, and that popular new device, the television. With television advertising becoming the new way to