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Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac, 2002.
This essay looks at the life of beat writer Jack Kerouac, and his renowned work, "On the Road".
1,195 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 2 sources, $ 40.95
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Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac
This paper is an analysis of On the Road, the most famous literary product of the Beat generation. The author looks at the life of the book's creator, Jack Kerouac, and his philosophies on life, and restless spirit as he wandered and searched for meaning in all Kerouac encountered.
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"Though it is not the only work of his art, On the Road, for better or worse, has become Kerouac's most famous novel. This book has performed as a means to meet the desires for a number of other people who feel to be having a restless and curious soul. The book itself initiated a cultural revolution, hence diverting about millions of people on new ideological channels. At the same time it arched Kerouac to a fame that he was never expecting and for which his calm, sacred soul was not prepared to deal with."
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Jack Kerouac's "On The Road", 2004.
This paper analyzes Jack Kerouac's novel "On The Road".
2,300 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 10 sources, $ 79.95
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This paper explains that Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" is an expression of the beat generation of 1950s America. The author points out the way the novel functions as a document of the psychological and cultural experience of an individual. The paper states that the book also offers insight into the attitudes and behavior of a society.
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"To say that Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road" is autobiographical is a little like saying that Rembrandt did self-portraits once in a while. In a way that relatively few fictional treatments of one's current experience of life have managed, "On the Road" functions ..."
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Jack Kerouac's Life Experiences, 2002.
A biogrpahy of the life of Jack Kerouac through a review of his book "On the Road."
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper that analyzes Jack Kerouac's life experiences and his philosophy of life as mirrored in the contents of his book "On the Road." The paper does this by using examples from the book that support that thesis.
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Jack Kerouac' "On the Road", 2005.
This paper is a review, written in the form of a letter to the author, Jack Kerouac about his 1957 book "On the Road".
1,535 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper explains that Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" captures the essence of the United States in a manner that has never been accomplished before because his disjointed and arbitrary travels mimic the complex and almost incomprehensible experience that is America, filled with the people and places, both famous and obscure. The author points out that Kerouac rolls through the countryside creating memories, connected directly his relationship with his friends; thus the theme, which pulls the novel together, is that the vast expanses of the United States are characterized by the people within them. The paper relates that the novel makes America real because, unlike other novels about this country "On the Road " does not appear to have any ideology aside from existence: "We are here. We are alive."
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"Another symbol of beauty and pure emotion is music. Music is like America: they both are meaningless if there is not a human being there to experience them. Jazz, however, not only reflects America, but it reflects a rebellious aspect of America. In your time it remained a subculture; looked down upon by the social elite, the conservative, and the racists. Sal and Dean are unconcerned with all of these connotations. Specifically what appeals to Sal is the raw emotion; the idea that a trumpet player can most accurately express his emotion by hitting random, unplanned, and almost arbitrary notes. Dean becomes completely lost in the music. He believes he can feel exactly what the musician is feeling and at exactly the same moment."
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Analysis of Jack Kerouac's Works, 2005.
An analysis of Jack Kerouac as well as his characters in three of his works.
2,937 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 86.95
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This paper shows that social discomfort and distrust are heavily reflected in Jack Kerouac's works. Ray Smith from "The Dharma Bums" and Sal Paradise from "On the Road" are confused by society and why it functions as it does, and are therefore isolated from it. Leo Percepied from "The Subterraneans", on the other hand, becomes isolated from society as a result of not understanding himself and merely tries to accept his life for what it is. The paper takes a look at the links between Kerouac's characters, also in comparison to his own life.
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"Eventually Ray comes to believe that the only way to achieve total happiness is to find "dharma," or truth. He comes to this conclusion with the help of his good friend Japhy Ryder. Ryder is an easygoing young man who is a strong follower of Buddhism. He introduces Ray to Buddhist thinking and gets him interested in pursuing dharma by telling him miraculous tales of the great Han Shan, an ancient Buddhist monk whom he grows to admire greatly. His admiration is for Han Shan's ability to "take off by himself and live purely and true to himself."3 For Han Shan the solution is to live a life of his own in the mountains of China, in retreat from society's conformity."
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Jack Kerouac: An American Icon, 2006.
An analysis of the life, work and legacy of the American novelist Jack Kerouac.
1,050 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper discusses the life and writing of Jack Kerouac, the 1950s American author whose novel "On the Road" is considered a classic. The paper traces Kerouac's childhood in Massachusetts, including watershed events such as the death of his older brother. Then the paper analyzes the influence of the Beat Generation and other social phenomena on Kerouac's writing. The paper concludes with Kerouac's tragic demise from alcohol.
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"The Beat Generation. The Fabulous Fifties. Elvis. Rock and Roll. The Communist Menace. And then there was author Jack Kerouac. He defined a restless, dynamic and evolving generation of angst-ridden adventurers, who were desperately searching for the true meaning of life in the embodiment of this complex muse. Kerouac exuded a James Dean-like persona - in the way he wrote about, and ultimately lived, his life. Agnes Machate writes of Kerouac and his fellow writers of the Beat Generation: "They did not seem to pay too much attention to what was socially practical; in this regard they were rebels. If being non-conformist met their need for freedom and let them express themselves the way the wanted, and allowed them to be what they wanted to be, they did not have to obey any rules. They wouldn't fit in a group, but instead, stand out, so they wouldn't conform just to avoid an unpleasant treatment from society." ("The Generation of Extremes" 1)."
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Freedom Journey: A Literary Analysis of "Good Blonde" by Jack Kerouac, 2001.
A look at the origins of the Beat Generation.
940 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 3 sources, $ 33.95
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This paper introduces the beginning of the Beat Generation and how it was influenced by the author Jack Kerouac as shown in his story: "The Good Blonde".
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"Expression of this need for individualism despite a conformity in society, expressed itself in the Beats with free association and jazz inspired language and improvisational literary techniques, in experimentation in drugs, sex, anything that would break free of the good soldier mold."
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"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" ( Mark Twain ) & "On the Road "( Jack Kerouac ), 1999.
Examines how the river in Twain & the road in Kerouac serve as symbols for their characters' development & insight into American social reality.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 7 sources, $ 63.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine how the river in Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the road in Kerouac's On the Road function as symbolic foundations for the main characters' accretion of experience and the achievement of personal insight into certain social realities about American life. The plan of the research will be to set forth the general design of each book and then to discuss the interconnection between thematic intent and the power of the symbol in each.
Huckleberry Finn begins with Huck in conflict with the Widow Douglas, who has taken him in as a border to reform him. When his drunken and abusive father shows up he follows him to escape the Widow, but then escapes from his father as well, killing a pig to make everybody think he is dead. He disappears from the area when he takes off down the river with the runaway slave Jim. Their journey.."
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"On the Road" ( Jack Kerouac ) & "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" ( Mark Twain ), 1999.
Compares nature & significance of friendships of Dean & Sal in Kerouac & Huck & Jim in Twain.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 4 sources, $ 63.95
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" This study will examine the theme of friendship in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The focus of the study will be the friendships between Dean and Sal in Kerouac and Huck and Jim in Twain. In different ways and for different reasons, all four characters stand in defiance of the conventional way of life. What makes their individual paths special is that they share them in friendships which deepen with time and experience. In addition, in both friendships there is what might be called a leader and a follower. Huck and Dean are the leaders, with Jim and Sal the followers. However, the two friendships do not always adhere strictly to these specific roles. In fact, the flexibility of these friendships adds to their attractiveness for the reader.
As Ann Charters writes in the Introduction to On the Road.."
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"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" ( Mark Twain ) & "On The Road" ( Jack Kerouac ), 1999.
Compares treatments of theme of freedom in these novels plots, characters, narration, social commentary and styles.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 6 sources, $ 63.95
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" This paper will compare two famous literary works. The first work, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was written by Mark Twain in 1884. The second book, On the Road, was written by Jack Kerouac between 1947 and 1950, although it was not published until 1957 (Charters xxi-xxii). The discussion will center on a particular theme which both books have in common. The theme which this paper will examine is that of personal freedom. The paper will show why personal freedom was important for the central characters in both novels.
In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the author uses the character of Huckleberry Finn to narrate. In Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the author uses the fictional character of Sal Paradise to narrate Kerouac's account of two cross country trips which he made in the United States during the.."
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The Search for Ecstasy in Jack Kerouac's Novel "On the Road", 2000.
1,240 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 42.95
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This paper looks at the characters in "On the Road" and their pursuit of "IT"; the ultimate feeling of ecstasy and freedom which among other things they chase through drugs, sex, alcohol, and jazz music in their wanderings across the United States. The paper shows how, although some characters come close, in the end every search for ecstasy ends in disillusionment.
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"Sal Paradise is narrator of this book. Through his adventures across the United States, the reader is introduced to many different people, all with individual goals, desires, and personalities. One man that Sal chances to meet and befriend is completely "mad" about life, lives only to have some reckless "kicks", and "digs" everyone that he comes in contact with. His name is Dean Moriarty. The reader is given a very good sense of Dean's personality when Sal tells us "fury spat out of his eyes when he told of things he hated; great glows of joy replaced this when he suddenly got happy; every muscle twitched to live and go" (113). It is Dean who first talks to Sal about the search for "IT". Dean believes that living life to the fullest, not worrying about what might happen later on, and finding enjoyment and delight in everything is the best way to find "IT". Sal is completely captivated with Dean's attitude towards living and he always hangs around him being utterly amazed and absorbed with everything that he does."
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Ginsberg and Kerouac, 1996.
Compares themes, styles, characterizations, philosophies in novel & epic poem. "On The Road" by Jack Kerouac & "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg .
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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"Alan Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac were friends whose experiences figure in each other's works. They both made their mutual friend Neal Cassady central to their most famous works -- Ginsberg's poem Howl and Kerouac's novel On the Road. The similarities between the two writers' concerns, interests, and language are also numerous. Both of them seem to be mapping the same territory with maps highlighted by bursts of the poetry and poetic prose that the two have in common: the saxophones and bop, the drugs and drinking, the sex and the travel, the nights, the madness, and the endless conversations. Despite all these similarities, however, they produced two very different works. Ultimately Ginsberg's work is about reaching inside himself. Self-knowledge, no matter how disturbing, sad, or horrifying, is what he is after. Kerouac and his character Sal remain unknown.
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"On the Road" and "Saint Maybe", 2005.
A look at the theme of life experience in the novels "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac and "Saint Maybe" by Anne Tyler.
2,020 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper examines how in novels "On the Road" and "Saint Maybe", by Jack Kerouac and Anne Tyler, the authors stress upon life as a set of experiences and how these build a person. It shows how Jack Kerouac's characters go flying off randomly along the twisted contours of their lives in his autobiographical epic "On the Road". In contrast, it also looks at how Anne Tyler in her novel, "Saint Maybe" shows "ordinary" people and their ordinary lives. She displays the fact that people in this world are only human and are hence bound to make mistakes, yet they struggle to survive with the attempt to work out the problems they face in relationships and communication.
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"The journey of the seventeen-year-old protagonist, Ian Bedloe, begins when he doesn't imagine the consequences of his actions. He suspects there is more to Lucy's past and to the problems of her present, than either Danny or the rest of the family has acknowledged. And one night, when Ian's plans for a romantic evening with his girlfriend-indeed, it is the night he plans to lose his virginity-are disrupted by having to baby-sit Lucy's children longer than he was supposed to, Ian becomes enraged. And so, on the way home, Ian tells his brother what he suspects about Lucy, and also mentions that the daughter, for whom Danny abandoned his studies to marry Lucy, is not his child. In disbelief and horror, Danny commits suicide by driving his car into a wall."
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"On the Road", 2004.
This paper discusses the theme of a quest in Jack Kerouac's novel "On The Road."
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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The paper looks at the quest theme in Jack Kerouac's influential beat generation novel, "On The Road." The paper explains the road trip as symbolic of the quest for identity and the automobile as the symbol of the new American mobility. The paper also notes the semi-autobiographical tone of the novel.
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"A central and even dominant theme in Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road" is the road trip as a symbolic and practical quest for identity, a quest that occupies the lives of Sal Paradise, the narrator and Dean Moriarty, the perpetual road tripper. As an influential member of the Beat generation of American writers, Kerouac used what appears to be a semi-autobiographical approach to his theme."
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"On the Road", 2003.
An analysis of the character analysis of Dean Moriarty in "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac.
2,952 words (approx. 11.8 pages), 18 sources, APA, $ 87.95
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This paper examines the novel "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac and in particular, focuses on the character of Dean Moriarty. It seeks to discover the motivation behind this unique and vibrant individual, including psychological analysis of his character. In addition, comparisons are made between the novel and the characters of "On the Road" and many other works of 20th Century American literature.
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"Whereas Sal sees Dean in such a positive light, there are others who do not. Sal's Aunt calls him a 'madman,' and Major a 'moron and a fool.' This is understandable as they are older and more orthodox characters, with no comprehension of Dean as a counter-culture figure. Sal's aunt's newspaper reading seems to suggest a connection with the values of 'Middle America' which would disapprove of such 'renegades' as Dean. This is similar to the way in which the infamous outlaws of the West were feared due to their unpredictable and menacing nature and bohemian approach. Kerouac uses these criticisms of Dean - the embodiment of the Beat lifestyle and 'ideology' - to reflect the sceptical view that many critics took to his, and fellow Beat authors' writings and lifestyles. To relate this to Cassady, he was a member of the Beat Generation along with Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs - a small group of close friends at first who became a movement later on. Many critics labelled them juvenile delinquents, determined to destroy conventional literature and morality."
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