Dean Moriarty

At first glance, On the Road appears to only be about Sal Paradise and his friends traveling the country enjoying their youth, alcohol, drugs, and other destroying delicacies. But beneath the surface the story shows deep rooted issues and power struggles between Sal and his friend Dean. During anyone’s friendship, each of their characteristics and idiosyncrasies seem to rub off on the other; these are signs of a healthy and normal relationship. When one friend begins to force or pressure the other into doing things that are out of his personality or comfort zone, it turns into an unhealthy relationship where one friend holds much more power than the other. Dean is representative of a friend who holds much more power over Sal and pressure him…

she lived her life outwardly as though she was comfortable and filled with happiness however, inwardly she was confused. Like Edna, Sal Paradise, main character of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road felt confused with how his life was turning out. Sal was living a mundane life until Dean Moriarty turned his apathetic emotions into the love for adventure. Dean was a poor con–man who just ran around from one city to the next, wrecking whatever comes in his way and always feels the need to move again once…

both Sal and Dean from a mundane East Coast lifestyle, and a way to forget the mistakes of the past. Similarly in Thompson’s piece, a voyage of revelation fueled by an underlying desire to understand the American Dream offers a chance to escape for Raoul and his attorney using somebody else’s money. Jack Kerouac employs a proper noun in the utterance Here, the West is presented as a symbol of great opportunity and freedom like it had been for the pioneers who settled there from America’s east…

In the novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac, we follow Sal as he travels the country bouncing state to state and friend to friend following the crazy wild lifestyle of Dean Moriarty. Throughout the novel Sal and his friends indulge in sex, alcohol and drugs, and are constantly moving around contradicting the idea that in order to be happy you must find a job, a wife, have kids, and live in a nice home. During his journey we witness Sal and his gang of “mad men” counter societal norms by living life…

and his friends such as Dean who help uncover a new idea presented with the lack of conformity to culture and society as a whole. Many individuals may think that travel literature is just a genre that has created guide books, nature writing, in reality, the genre of travel literature is significantly important as it reveals to us readers that travel writing is just not a genre it is more of a tradition. One of the tradition, followers could be Jack Kerouac the author of the novel On the Road,…

How do you think Route 66 became so popular to all Americans? Route 66 is well known because it led people from Chicago to Santa Monica. It was also called "THE ROAD" by many people. The Blue Highway was also unique. Let's find out how the Blue Highway became so popular and how it became so amazing! Did you know that Route 66 is very popular? Blue Highway is popular because it represents America where people can open a small business or even a tourist attraction. It also takes you…

How many years have you’ve been in Student Council? 2 years Being a new officer to Student Council, how did you ingratiate yourself into the world of Hebron Student Council Officer? I wasn’t elected into a Student Council Officer position, but I was asked to be an officer after my work at summer workshop. I was lucky enough to be friends with most of the officers and being Senior Class Vice President allowed me to easily fit into this role. Being in PALs also helped me find my place as a new…

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Interesting and to be honest the first order of business after viewing the video was to establish a connection between this TAMUC Dr. Dawg and their institution. In general terms to review their academic credentials, as such evidence points to the fact that the individual in the video is Dr. Rusty Waller, Educational Leadership from Texas A&M University- Commerce. Specifically, from their Center for Faculty Excellence and Innovation (Moseley, 2017). Dr. Dawg or Dr. Waller presented within the…

Each professor has a different experience but they all show the importance on creating and keeping a global community. Also, all of these professors have more than 10 years of experience in teaching. Therefore, the result of this small study may not be relevant for adjunct professors, community professors, or professors who are just starting this career. Also, in this sample, all of them experienced traveling abroad, thus this results may not apply for professors who did not traveled abroad.…