To completely understand the characters’ seek for purpose and their spiritual transformation, it is best to start by pinpointing the ideology the beat generation supported. The name itself, the beat generation, was allegedly coined by Jack Kerouac himself during his conversation with another American author, John Clellon Holmes. (Ginsberg: 17???) Seen by many only as young delinquents, the youthful beat generation advocated raw emotions, complete openness and nakedness of both soul and mind, emphasised spirituality and opposed the rising consumerism and conformity of that time. (PerizRodriguez: 82) Thus, the journey of spiritual transformation of the two main characters, Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, becomes self-explanatory. The very need for spiritual fulfilment is born from the need of change. The necessity to change his life Sal implies with the first two sentences saying “I first met Dean not long after my wife and I
To completely understand the characters’ seek for purpose and their spiritual transformation, it is best to start by pinpointing the ideology the beat generation supported. The name itself, the beat generation, was allegedly coined by Jack Kerouac himself during his conversation with another American author, John Clellon Holmes. (Ginsberg: 17???) Seen by many only as young delinquents, the youthful beat generation advocated raw emotions, complete openness and nakedness of both soul and mind, emphasised spirituality and opposed the rising consumerism and conformity of that time. (PerizRodriguez: 82) Thus, the journey of spiritual transformation of the two main characters, Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, becomes self-explanatory. The very need for spiritual fulfilment is born from the need of change. The necessity to change his life Sal implies with the first two sentences saying “I first met Dean not long after my wife and I