Road is one of the best Beat novels written by Jack Kerouac. It is a captivating, moral and touching tale that has given a detailed account of a friendship and the four trips across America. The writer has used his full creativity and talents in producing this piece of work. The presentation is so effective that the readers starts to have a feeling that if he/she is in that place. The narrator of this tale is a character named as Sal Paradise who is a young college boy living with his aunt in Paterson, New Jersey. The real story starts from the point when a college friend of Sal invites him to spend some time with him in San Francisco besides he also wanted to see his most beloved friend Dean Moriarty in Denver. Dean Moriarty is the second most prominent character of the story who is presented as a talkative, womanizer type of a guy, who was living in New York in a hope to become a writer. He is very much idealized by Sal as he is too joyous and is very confident and smart while being with women. In the last part of the novel, the statement "go moan for man" stated on page 303 is the sum up or the conclusion of the whole story. It reflects that Sal had at last successfully found the secret for which he was searching. From the very beginning of the story Sal and his friends are presented as a crazy youth who is enormously energized with the ambition to fully enjoy the life and hence they kept moving around all the corners of America in search of the real meaning of life. In this way they used to test the limits of the American Dream. They experienced every kind of excitement of life that they were able to go through and traveled through every kind of region present in the...
All these acts reflects that they were in search of a means to fulfill their desires and inner need to get out, break all sort of imprisonments and find the true freedom, enlightened from any higher belief, conception, or principles. Being in a young age their urge to find something and the lack of fulfillment of their desires made them feel that the only way to fulfill their desires and the only means to gain freedom from all the confinements was to keep rushing here and there in search of it, to keep looking for ways to gain their personal freedom. There lack of maturity and knowledge thus led them to look for the fulfillment of their desires in sex, drugs, and jazz. From the pattern of life the "beat generation," as presented by Jack, it seems that they were the believers of only a single principle or philosophy and that philosophy was life. For them the only purpose of life was to enjoy it to it's highest potential and to spend it free from the restrictions imposed by the society. This believes was quoted by Sal himself at a point:
Road Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" was first published in 1957. It is a poignant story of a friendship between two young men Sal Paradise and Dean Moriary, who journey four adventures across America in the span of three years. Their journeys lead them through the process of maturity, found happiness, and personal disappointments. The central theme of the story is personal freedom and the challenges that are faced when
Road Some books are deceptive in terms of their subject matter. At first glance, for example, such books can appear simple, with a relatively straightforward story. Others are excessively uplifting or bleak, appearing to cater to only one single concept or emotion. Many times, however, the most apparently simple stories can hide deeper themes relating to the what we as human beings truly are. They contain important lessons or hold the
Obviously, Sal Paradise, much like Kerouac himself, loves American jazz music, especially played on the acoustic guitar by an African-American jazz/blues giant like Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly. As Mark Richardson sees it, writing in "Peasant Dreams: Reading On The Road," "The strain of the basic primitive," in this case jazz, ". . . is what Sal and Dean listen to in order to hear" what they call "wailing
" (Cresswell, p. 249) In a manner, this also points us toward a more direct consideration of the friendship around which this novel revolves. In the relationship between Sal and Dean, we are given not just an autobiographical window into the lives of Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassidy respectively, but also into the core values to which the counterculture movement was essentially committed. Again, this denotes the inherently relatable nature of
beat generation are several strong principles, the most notable is associated with the founder, Jack Kerouac and his definition of the generation as a whole. The road" has been a powerful metaphor for freedom from the constraints of ordinary life, ever since Jack Kerouac's On the Road became the Beatnik Bible in the 1950's. Kerouac saw beauty in gas stations and freedom on the road. The metaphor caught the imagination
American Novel On the Road with Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons The romance of the open road. The dusty highway. The screech of brakes and the roar of the gas pedal. All of these images come straight from Jack Kerouac's seminal novel On the Road, a tale of the American 1950's Beatnik experience, a tale of America viewed through travel and the window of a car. According to Kerouac, one is
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