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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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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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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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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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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