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This paper studies the book "On the Road". It describes the main characters and their personalities. It summarizes the tale and its plot of friendship and travel. The author finds that 'On the Road' is a testament to the wandering pioneer spirit of America by detailing travels across America. He feels that it presents the "beat generation" as a "holy" generation, one free from the hazards of aspiration, greediness and beliefs that was in a constant search for some greater truth.

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"On the road is one of the best Beat novels written by Jack Kerouac. It is a captivating, moral and touching tale that has given a detailed account of a friendship and the four trips across America. The writer has used his full creativity and talents in producing this piece of work. The presentation is so effective that the readers starts to have a feeling that if he/she is in that place. The narrator of this tale is a character named as Sal Paradise who is a young college boy living with his aunt in Paterson, New Jersey. The real story starts from the point when a college friend of Sal invites him to spend some time with him in San Francisco besides he also wanted to see his most beloved friend Dean Moriarty in Denver. Dean Moriarty is the second most prominent character of the story that is presented as a talkative, womanizer type of a guy, who was living in New York in a hope to become a writer. He is very much idealized by Sal as he is too joyous and is very confident and smart while being with women. "

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