Neal Cassady

In the novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Sal is constantly trying to find a new beginning. In search of it he goes all the way out West going through many adventures and making many friends along the way. Everywhere his travels lead him problems rise, yet Sal still follows his dream and goes out West. The West offers a lot of new opportunities to Sal and that, along with the encouragement of his friends, is the cause for his trip. In Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road the West signifies Sal’s search

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

The most irritating part of On the Road is at the end, when Dean leaves Sal, delirious with dysentery, alone in Mexico to return to New York. After several days of fever induced unconsciousness, Sal wakes to find Dean preparing to leave. Sal is incredulous and deeply hurt, but Dean simply smoothes it over with sweet talk, fixes his blanket, and leaves without any valid explanation. Even once Sal has realized what slimy action that was, he continues justifying it to himself, concluding he just does

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 your hair long, or even having a beard

Cassady is the cowboy crashing", is a most accurate example of American society's fascination with the cowboy lifestyle and how it eventually dwindled. Karouac describes these places and their short adventures, in a very different but detailed manner according

The Impact of Dean on Sal's Identity in On the Road On The Road begins with the protagonist, Sal, (representative of author Jack Kerouac), being overwhelmed by feelings of confusion and uncertainty regarding his personal identity. He then meets ‘Dean Moriarty’, an eccentric character who rejects societal values and ‘norms’. Sal is absorbed with and entranced by Dean, perceiving him as almost ‘superhuman’, and decides to follow him across the country. A passive character, Sal soon becomes dependent

Readers spend much of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road with Sal Paradise, the narrator, in his travels throughout the United States trying to escape the rigors of his old life. An issue arises for Paradise because every time he begins to settle down somewhere the place turns old and his desire for movement returns. Paradise’s desire for movement eventually becomes second nature to him. He thrives on the uncertainties of the road and the people he sees only get passing reactions and glances at him from

In 1957, Jack Kerouac published his second and most acclaimed novel called , On The Road. This book explained Kerouac’s wild three years of restless journeys back and forth across the country. In the novel, Kerouac describes his adventures through the eyes of a book smart author named Sal Paradise. The novel begins in the year 1947 and takes place at all the different destinations Sal had made on his way across America. The genre of this thrilling and exciting novel is beat generation. To begin

B00714952 Beat Literature and Culture ENG317 ‘The penchant for innovation and experimentation, so apparent from lifestyle to literacy form, was born of a desire to reinvigorate and indeed revolutionize American culture.’ How accurate is this assessment of Beat literature and culture? The beats became a popular literary movement in the 1950s and 1960s when writers who shared a distaste of American virtues of progress and power began experimenting with their writing styles trying to revolutionize American

During the 1950s, many different literary movements came to the spotlight. Two such movements were Confessionalism and Beat poetry. There are many commonalities between these movements, and often, authors and works from the Beat movement incorporate various Confessionalist characteristics. Allen Ginsberg, one such author, combined both Confessionalism and Beat poetry in a variety of his works, including Howl and Kaddish. The Confessionalist aspects of Allen Ginsberg and his works, such as Howl and