Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg And The Beat Movement

In 1944 Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs diverging paths led them to connect with each other in New York City, in order to begin what is called The Beat movement. The unexpected ingredient of each personality assisted in the precarious movement of the 1960s. Jack Kerouac originated as a skilled jock from a working class family in Massachusetts; if he had not injured his leg he may chosen to employ his scholarship to enter college as a star football player. However, that scenario was no longer viable due to his injury; lucky for Kerouac his curiosity in writing became beneficial towards his future. Allen Ginsberg originated from New Jersey raised with a father who taught high school children. William Burroughs were a great mind who journeyed through Times Square, living a free life, mainly because he was a homeless man.
Since, they possessed an insatiable thirst for knowledge of those who culture was pegged as weird because of their skin tone, sexual preference, homeless, chronic drug use or anyone that was marginalized by society because they did not into the ideal of the American way of life, they unknowingly created movement were these marginalized people could be theirselves. Some characteristics of the Beats and their followers, were their writings tend to reek of purity, because the words spilt from their experiences, heart and mind unto a blank sheet of paper. They were overall mainly young college students, who were social outcasts, that participated in drug and alcohol use, at one point of time struggled to achieve perfection and extremely misunderstood by