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Sal And Dean Jack Kerouac
1,485 wordsOn the Road Jack Kerouac, father of the Beat generation, almost an explorer of American society, documented his journeys across our nation in the guise of Sal Paradise in his signature novel, On the Road. Some felt that this book was an attack on America, and others praise it as the definition of Americas culture. To myself, it was fascinating tail of adventure, people, and life. Kerouac puts into reality what I only dream of. This novel is a beautiful description of life at that time, and menti...
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Mainstream Society Didnt Care
849 wordsOn the Road, by Jack Kerouac was considered to be the first beat novel. The lifestyle of beats is explained as going against mainstream norms. The two main characters in the novel Dean and Sal both go against normal society. On the Road was written during a time when mainstream society was in to materialistic possessions. The average person was concerned with having a good paying job and raising a family in the suburbs. Beatniks had the complete opposite goals in life then the average person. Be...
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East Of Eden James Dean
1,252 wordsBrad Gooch The subject OHara was fascinated with that fall was the death of James Dean, aged twenty-four, on September 30, 1955, in a crash in his Porsche Spyder near Paso Robles on his way to Salinas for a race. OHara responded by writing a number of elegies from October through the following April. " For James Dean, " written the Wednesday after the crash, shows the influence of classical elegies, which the movie stars death had inspired OHara to read, including Milton's " Lycid...
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Society Has Changed Sal And Dean
2,289 wordsThe more things Prison Journey The more things change, the more they stay the same. Society is continually evolving, yet human nature remains constant. Over time, new technologies have served to dramatically alter society, but the needs and desires of individuals within that society have remained the same. The most basic of these needs is the compulsion to find one s place within society. There comes a time in everyone s life at which it becomes necessary to define their role in the world. To de...
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