Sal Paradise

In the novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Sal Paradise is introduced as a man who is seeking a way to escape responsibilities he has in his life. Sal finds his way out in a man named Dean Moriarty, an independent man who lives a carefree life on the road without any responsibilities as he travels to new places in search of new “kicks” (Kerouac). Sal begins to idolize Dean’s way of life and quickly adopts it as his own and sets out on the road. Sal follows Dean looking to him for guidance, and much

Road opens with the introduction of main characters, Sal Paradise, who had recently separated from his first wife, to Dean Moriarty. Although Sal had long been interested in Dean, it is Dean who comes to Sal, asking him to teach him how to write. Dean’s wife, Marylou returns to Denver, leaving him to bond with Sal over writing, music, and plans to travel west, where Dean is from and Sal has always wanted to go. Although Dean heads west on his own, Sal soon finds the opportunity to follow, when another

narrator, Sal Paradise offers up to us what seems to be a very optimistic view on life. He is forever singing the praises of how wonderful his adventures will be and his high expectations for the future. To Sal, the novel is defined by youthful exuberance and unabashed optimism for the new experiences that he sets out to find. A deeper look into the novel, as well as a look at some of the critics who have written on it, reveals a much darker side, a more pessimistic and sad aspect that Sal simply fails

Nick is told of Gatsby’s shady underworld connections and unhealthy obsession with a youthful love affair, whilst Sal is aware of Dean’s unstable background which saw him in and out of young offender units as well as knowing that he is one driven by his lust for both sex and drugs. It is left to A. E. Dyson to explain why Nick allows himself to be won over by such

Jack Kerouac was born in Massachusetts, in 1922. Kerouac quit school and joined the Merchant Marine, starting the travels which would become ‘On the Road’ his most acclaimed novel. It is said to be an account of Kerouac's ("Sal Paradise’s") travels with Neal Cassady ("Dean Moriarty"). According to Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac typed the first draft of On the Road on a fifty-foot long roll of paper. On the Road gave an outlet of release for the dissatisfied young generation of the late

In Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road, we meet Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, two very lost men. After publishing the novel, many critics commented that Kerouac’s novel glorifies the deeds of criminal young men living irresponsible lives. Because of the low tolerance for rebellious youth, nowadays most of society would share the critics’ opinion. As Dean and Sal are adults, most of their actions are not inappropriate. Though this is true, the more one reads the novel, one sees just how much of a failure

is he searching for? While journeying on the road, Sal Paradise is not searching for a home, a job, or a wife. Instead, he longs for a mental utopia offered by Dean Moriarty. This object of his brotherly love grew up in the streets of America. Through the hardships of continuously being shuffled from city to city, Dean has encompassed what is and what is not important in life. While driving back to Testament in the '49 Hudson, Dean propositions Sal through an appeal to emotion. In passing

It is achieved through the act of gazing at women. The woman can also be used as a means to achieve something else, in this case sensual pleasure. Since the culture described in the novel is highly hedonistic, pleasure in terms of sex is crucial to Sal and his friends. Treating women as objects also implies to me that they are “replaceable” in the same way as items are obtained, used, disposed of and

In Jack Kerouac’s novel, On the Road, women are objectified and sexualized by the men in the story. Sal, Dean and other male characters use descriptive language to portray a woman’s looks and demeaning language to characterize the women they encounter. The men also disregard any feelings that the women have while also ignoring any positive qualities they may have. The two women who are the main victims in this novel are Marylou and Camille, and Dean Moriarty is the source of the majority of the mistreatment

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