Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," is a transcendental novel which has influenced modern western civilization in a variety of ways; inspiring untold numbers of youth to adventure, exploration and mind expansion. ... The beat generation had many influential contributors, but it can be argued that no other author, artist or individual's work better represented the philosophy of the "beats" than Jack Kerouac and his seminal work "On the Road." ... For instance, in On the Road, although there is a destination, there is no itinerary. ... In the book untitled The view from on the road, the auth...

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One of the most important works produced during the beat movement was Jack Kerouac's On The Road. ... He made this trip over and over, constantly on the road. ... A issue concerning Kerouac that is very often eluded to but never really spoken about in On The Road is his possible homosexuality. ... Kerouac's poor ability to maintain relationships is evident through out his life as well as in On The Road. ... It is a universal theme which Kerouac draws upon in his classic beat work On the Road , Kerouac simply recorded this journey at a turning point in America....

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On the Road, written by an ingenious free-spirit of the 50's and 60's, Jack Kerouac. ... Kerouac was a writer from Massachusetts. ... In the book On the Road, Kerouac plays an unsettling, insightful traveler on his own personal endeavor to search for an answer. To what question only Kerouac knows. ... On the Road showed me how to break out of the never ending cycle and gave me hope for change, on my own terms. ...

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(Adams 2)" Phoebe Lou Adams, a columnist for The Atlantic Monthly, stated this about Jack Kerouac's book On the Road. ... Adams agrees with these statements and her review is relevant to someone who is interested in reading the great book On the Road. ... Dean's struggle to reach a sort of happiness and leads his life, On the Road, is also relevant. ... Kerouac is very consistent in his writing. ... Overall Phoebe's review is one recommended to get a taste of On the Road....

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In 1951, he wrote On the Road, which was finally published in 1957. On the Road was a stylistic breakthrough for Kerouac who had developed a theory of writing he called, spontaneous prose. ... Kerouac's On the Road was a hit all over America, along with his trends and styles. ... On the Road told of his confessions, and conversations of life and truths. ... Jack Kerouac's On the Road was the start of a new culture of children embracing. .Jack Kerouac was a man of many achievements. ...

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To the Beats the only solution to a life of domestic stagnation was to pack up and let life lead you down one winding road after another. ... No other Beat poet understood that concept as well as Jack Kerouac. "Jack Kerouac single handedly created the beat generation. ... Kerouac was a Roman Catholic with a strong fascination with Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies. ... Kerouac was particularly interested in mastering the four noble truths. ...

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Jack Kerouac's On The Road. ... We see Sal's trip partly through the eyes of Kerouac himself. The book is not totally autobiographical but it is regarded as written in "his [Kerouac's] own self-image". ... Sal, however, only lives his life on the road part time. ... On the road, however, Dean and Sal are bums, poor travelers. ...

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On The Road By Jack Kerouac On the Road, by Jack Kerouac was considered to be the first "beat" novel. ... On the Road was written during a time when mainstream society was in to materialistic possessions. ... "The greatest ride in my life was about to come up, a truck, with a flatboard at the back, with about six or seven boys sprawled out on it, and the drivers, two young blond farmers from Minnesota, were picking up every single soul they found on that road-the most smiling, cheerful couple of handsome bumpkins you could ever wish to see, both wearing cotton shirts and overalls, nothing ...

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The Thing about the Beats One of the novels that has caused a great impact since it was written until now is the modern classic On the Road, the second novel of one of the most controversial writers of his time Jack Kerouac. ... Kerouac in On the Road tails his travels across America that took him seven years, he traveled by bus, hitchhiking and in his friends car. ... I was getting the bug myself" (Kerouac, 72). ... The review by Amazon explains it in a better way: "Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On the Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of ...

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"Jazz writers," such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, upheld their poetic ideals to the techniques of jazz musicians, such as rhythm, improvisation, and call and response. ... Another derivation, pinpointed by Kerouac, comes from the word "beatitude," holy, state of ultimate bliss. ... Ginsberg is said "to be a gifted public reader and has read some of his poems to jazz accompaniment, as have Whalen and Kerouac" (Benets 3). ... Dean Moriarty, Neal Cassady's persona in Jack Kerouac's On the Road, stresses that "we know what IT is and we know TIME and we know that everything is real...

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The term beat was first used by Jack Kerouac in 1948 while talking to his friend Clellon Holmes: "So I guess you might say we're a beat generation." ... SM10, 4 pgs) Soon Ginsberg and Kerouac were emphasizing the "beatific" qualities of the word, making of it a mystical, transcendental experience. ... (Scumacher, Dharma Lion, p. 261) Howl led the way; Kerouac's On the Road followed with unprecedented media attention; Burroughs' Naked Lunch, banned and vilified, broke through the barriers of censorship, and a literary movement was born. "The Beat Generation" produced icon...

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On The Road by Jack Kerouac 1957 Sal Paradise, the narrator of the story, is miserable and fed up with his mundane life when he meets a young man named Dean Moriarty during the winter of 1947. Dean is wild, irresponsible, and newly married to a girl named Marylou. Before long, Marylou and Dean sp...

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I read the book "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac The Main characters in this book are Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise. The book takes place in 1947 and goes through 3 years to 1950. Sal is a writer and Dean just got out of jail when the story starts , neither of the men have much money or have rich f...

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The primary sources we discussed would include; Andre Dubus III's Townie, the diaries of Jack Kerouac, and the literary journalism of George Orwell. ... A great example of this is within another piece written by George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier. ... Kerouac then uses his secondary source (On The Road) as a description of his background scenery. ... (On The Road 156) The quote above explains how Kerouac describes his journeys through Louisiana, containing interesting information on the scenery that isn't given within the primary source. ... Brothers, On The Road, and the se...

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To the Beats the only solution to a life of domestic stagnation was to pack up and let life lead you down one winding road after another. ... No other Beat poet understood that concept as well as Jack Kerouac. "Jack Kerouac single handedly created the beat generation. ... Kerouac was a Roman Catholic with a strong fascination with Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies. ... Kerouac was particularly interested in mastering the four noble truths. ...

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To the Beats the only solution to a life of domestic stagnation was to pack up and let life lead you down one winding road after another. ... No other Beat poet understood that concept as well as Jack Kerouac. "Jack Kerouac single handedly created the beat generation. ... Kerouac was a Roman Catholic with a strong fascination with Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies. ... Kerouac was particularly interested in mastering the four noble truths. ...

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On The Road Jack Kerouac has made a beautiful work of art. ... Jack Kerouac's book, On The Road, raised many eyebrows. ... His life is spent on the road and that's where he is at peace. ... The wild lives of Sal and his friends on the road made On The Road the subject of a great deal of debate. ... Marylou is one of the women in On The Road. ...

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Writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg wrote books and poems that contradicted the social norms and caused an uproar among adults. Their books On the Road and Howl, respectively, were not received well and were confiscated by the police because they believed they were un-American. ... People like Betty Friedan, Jack Kerouac, and Chuck Berry created books and music that showed the counterculture to popular beliefs at the times. ...

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Ginsberg invited Snyder, along with many other influential members of the counterculture (such as McClure, Whalen, Ginsberg, and Kerouac) to read his poetry in a San Francisco club. ... There was a very intimate relationship developed between Snyder and Kerouac. ... One day Snyder said to Kerouac "real Buddhists are able to walk around the countryside (Snyder on Kerouac)-. Kerouac agreed and they went on one final trip of the season out into the mountains. ... He even offers the radical idea of legalizing hitch-hiking in "Four Changes-, suggesting that there be hitch-hiking stations on the...

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Moreover, he is dreaming of an idea and concept-what Times Square represents to him-more than the stones in the middle of the road. ... Just as the trumpeter stands "at dawn" and "blow[s] a silver chorus to the buildings" so could Ginsberg invisibly shout his prose unto the world, like Kerouac in "MacDougal Street Blues." ... That section alone is eerie, for literature knows that these Beats-Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Burroughs-grew as the fathers of deeper thinking, and verbose social critique. ...

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It describes how even though the original beats were few in number, many "movements" in literary history often happened when a cluster of a few writers, tied together by time more than space, uncovered a new path or road of writing style and content. ... Gary Snyder was one of the original Beat poets, and along with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Alan Watts helped to shape modern poetry and to fuel the cultural revolution of the 1960's. ... The other poets were Phillip Lamantia, Mike McClure, Allen Ginsberg, Phil Whalen, and Jack Kerouac who decided not to read. ...

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The initial pioneers of the movement were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and William S. ... Of these works, two would reach the greatest commercial success and epitomize the works of the beats: On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Howl by Allen Ginsberg. Kerouac's piece, a semi-autobiographical tale, depicting the travels and interactions of Kerouac and his friends. ... It includes anecdote about buses and hitchhiking which were all parallels of Kerouac's experiences. ... (Kerouac, On the Road) On the Road would define a generation but Ginsberg's Howl would change ...

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The Road (1907), a collection of short stories, inspired later writers like John Steinbeck and Jack Kerouac. ... He always survives and get to the bend of the road regardless of the conditions and hardships. ...

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There are many examples of books that can be considered picaresque novels. Some of the better known examples included On the Road, by Jack Kerouac, Don Quixote by Pierre Menard, and most importantly, The Adventures of Huckle Berry Finn by Mark Twain. The book Middle Passage, also happens to be an ex...

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