Essays on On The Road
The Beat Generation The Beat Generation was a literary movement throughout the 1940s and ’50s. Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs founded the Beat movement in the late 1940s after all three met at Columbia University in 1944. They were recognised as a generation of post-World War Two youths whose attitudes towards life and...
“On the Road” involves Sal Paradise, an emerging writer whom Dean Moriarty, a questionable hero, fascinates. Sal reveals that “My first impression of Dean was of a young Gene Autry – trim, thin-hipped, blue-eyed, with a real Oklahoma accent – a side-burned hero of the snowy West” (Kerouac I.1.4) The story incorporates different road trips,...
Jack Kerouac, one of the leaders of the Beat Movement, along with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, had a view of America that was quite different from others. Although the term “beat” originally meant weary, it held various meanings such as “beaten down” or “beatnik”, which described the stereotypical 1950s counterculture, the Beat Generation. Kerouac...
