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- Disheartened after a divorce, his life changes when he meets Dean Moriarty, who is "tremendously excited with life", and begins to long for the freedom of the road: "Somewhere along the line I knew there would be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me".
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Dec 27, 2012 · That’s important for a couple of reasons: It signals the novel’s hunger for new experience, for a way out of the conformist pieties of post-World War II America, and also Kerouac’s desire to...
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May 4, 2010 · Yes, both Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty are characters without a home (or at least a place that they feel is home). Dean and Sal only feel at home on the road, which is when they are the least lonely. But relationships on the road are transitory ones, which is the ironic/tragic part.
On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use.
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Sep 5, 2017 · The Fact and Fiction of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. If you are so much as a leisurely fan of American fiction, you likely already know the story of how On the Road came into the...
Feb 28, 2014 · But he also “lets it all out”, expressing himself eccentrically and spontaneously, with apparent disregard for the judgments of others. He “knows time”—that is, he recognizes death and understands that he should live emphatically and unapologetically in this moment, as the next is never guaranteed.
Kerouac’s disorienting experience of loss and failure during the war years, openly admitted to in 1968’s Vanity of Duluoz , is obscured by the emphasis on freedom and fun within On the Road .
The manic movement of Sal Paradise in On the Road, with and without Dean Moriarty, is directly patterned after Kerouac's reallife travel during the same period. The novel shocked many readers of...
