Jack Kerouac

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Born by the name Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac on the 12th of March, 1922, Jack Kerouac always had a story. Whether it was about travelling, religion, or just of times with his friends, Kerouac was never shy to share his tales with the public. Born from a French-Canadian background, Kerouac had an odd childhood. From a young age, Jack Kerouac lived in multiple different French-Canadian neighborhoods in Lowell, Massachusetts, living on the language of joual, a common dialect of many…

A Picaresque Reading of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957) A. Brief Information about Jack Kerouac and the Novel Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922 and died in Florida in 1969. Having attended Columbia University where he met the members of the group what would later be called the Beat Generation and some of them would appear as characters in his novel On the Road. However, as it is stated in the introduction part for the novel, ‘’Kerouac, at the age of nineteen, decided that…

See Past the Skin Creator and benefactor of the Beats Generation, Jack Kerouac prevailed for his composition techniques and mongrel forms of African American culture, style, and music with a twist of European literary cultures to mirror Kerouac's ambitions of both to join the standard artistic convention furthermore to restructure it (Johnson). The Beats Generation offered a critique of middle class American values. "Beat" differently characterizes as a curtailed form of "beaten down" or of…

is system of conformity anthologized than in Jack Kerouac’s 1960 Essay, “The Vanishing American Hobo” when the author confesses, “I myself was a hobo but I had to give it up around 1956 because of increasing television stories about the abominableness of strangers with packs passing through by themselves…

Taking advantage of their faculty of reasoning and objective understanding, radicals have frequently increased and supplemented the public’s knowledge and intelligence in matters related to academia. For example, by developing a deep understanding of the Sun-centered theory of the universe, Galileo radically transformed the way science is done because now, science works primarily by persuasion and not by proof (Pentin 26). Making use of his own understanding, the scientist has developed methods…

Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Jack Kerouac’s On The Road, texts which both explore the unattainability of the American Dream. The novel’s heroes, Jay Gatsby and Dean Moriarty, serve as vessels for this exploration and thus there are key similarities between the portrayals of the two characters. However, while Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as inauthentic…

One of Jack Kerouac’s most memorable novels, On The Road, written in 1951 but published in 1957, is a highly influential response to the current events of that time. Scars of World War II had started to heal and society, fed up with the sense of danger and terror, rightfully decided to give in to conformity and passivity. However, some of them rejected such an approach, believing that there is much more to life, rather than blissfully accept the monotony of everyday experiences. Kerouac could be…

oneself. Jack Kerouac’s narrative of On the Road is akin to a spiritual journey, or a process of self-discovery, in relation to the world. The characters of Sal Paradise based on himself and Dean Moriarty based on Neal Cassady form character personas around both of them in relation to the Beat aesthetic. The character of Dean Moriarty, in particular, invokes the image of the Beat lifestyle as a rebellion against popular culture and encompassed a carefree attitude and charisma that Kerouac…

The Beat Generation refers to a group of writers who hit their creative peaks in the 1940s-1960s. The group did not share the same writing styles, but they were apart of the same social group, sharing the same interests, aims, and beliefs (Denise Enck). The “beatniks” were not actually apart of the Beat Generation, they sprung from a stereotype, coming from a derogatory image often associated with how the Beat Generation came off as (Denise Enck). Although two very different groups both heavily…