Sal Paradise

Kerouac explores the spiritual and physical experience of his narrator, Sal Paradise, travelling with his friends in a post-war era imbuing the spirit of anti-conformity and rejection of materialism. Sal Paradise, along with Dean who is a very close friend, explore America through hitch-hiking, reckless behavior, and moments of brief and unusual stability in their lives where they settle down. John Kerouac uses Sal Paradise’s journey to illustrate Sal’s insatiable quench to travel which is based on Sal’s mindset of how the journey itself is the true adventure. Sal also struggles with maintaining relationships with family, friends, and his significant other’s…

differ greatly, they are connected by a need to find something bigger and better. Sal Paradise is a man who has known few troubles in his life, at least compared to his companions. Having grown up in an upper-middle class family, he has little experience in regards to suffering. Educated, financially well-off, and living in a stable home, there is nothing wrong with Sal’s life besides the fact that it is not exciting enough to write about. To put it simply, he is bored. This boredom stirs up a…

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 as they see fit to show that…

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 he becomes uninterested. In…

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taken a particular liking to birds they saw on their walk, but Frank had scared them all away every time he approached one. Victor told the monster that they could try tomorrow to get a bird. Once Frank and Victor were back to Victor’s, Frank opened one of the books on Victor’s bookshelf. He flipped through the pages, confused as to what it was. He asked Victor what he was looking at, and Victor explained to him what a book was and that words they speak can also be written. Victor read the…

Now that is some great company which tells us Satan belongs as the hero. Even though there is all this evidence of Satan being a hero there are still many people who feel that Satan was in fact the villain of Paradise Lost. Satan is said to be the villain mainly because he goes against God and tries to overthrow the most powerful being in the world. Satan's own determination allows him to feel that he is greater than God and able to take over allows him to become the villain in…

books provide Frankenstein’s creature with much of his understanding about the outside world, and also contribute to his own self-awareness. The three books that the creature takes from the De Lacey home Plutarch’s Lives, The Sorrows of Werter, and Paradise Lost, as well as Victor’s journal, expose the creature to “an infinity of new images and feelings that sometimes [raise him] to ecstasy, but more frequently [sink him] into the lowest dejection” (Shelley 89). While each work has a very…

In what is considered one of the most ambitious works in literary history, John Milton uses the retelling of the Christian creation story as an allegory for what it means to be truly human. Focalized in this endeavor is man’s movement from inception, through the pursuit of knowledge, to the fulfillment and execution of free will. While Christian ideology (in other words, popular ideology) bases itself in the belief of Adam and Eve’s fall acting as man’s first sin and initial disobedience to God,…