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Jack Kerouac On The Road Analysis
Andy Le
English 1A
3-5 PM
9/9/15
Transformation
In the upcoming essay we’re about to do, I want to explore the ideas of Jack Kerouac's transformation throughout the book. When he wrote “On the Road.” people expect him to be this happy optimistic guy. Jack Kerouac was an example of youth and freedom. To everyone he was this person that changed everyone's life and even made a change to people's viewpoint of literature. He was someone that represented the Beat Generation and was even considered the “King of the Beat Generation”. But soon enough, it turns out that he’s become a whole different person. He has grown to old and can’t keep up with the present day. Someone that has turned tired of the image he has created of himself. An image where he wish he had never created. Jack Kerouac even said to himself, “Some sort of sea beatnik, tho anybody wants to call me a beatnik for THIS better try it if they dare.(27)” To explore the possibility of salvation he has met and to explain the purpose of this book to the audience.
But not only that, I want to also be able to fit alcoholism into this essay. What alcohol makes Jack Kerouac do, what does alcohol instruct him …show more content…
I first want to start out his adventures in Big Sur and his expedition for salvation. Jack Kerouac trying to find the next chapter to his book, his life. Whether he found what he wanted or there was a turn of events and it was the opposite of what he was looking for. If Jack Kerouac was able to change somehow and that maybe it was an influence by someone. Something like the influence of others, the environment or maybe he found something religious that has guided him the way. There are so many possibilities of what might have happened to
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