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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: 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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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' "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'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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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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"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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"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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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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"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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Emerson and Kerouac, 2002.
A paper which draws a parallel between two American writers, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Jean Louis Lebris de Kerouac (Jack).
2,414 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 15 sources, APA, $ 73.95
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Ralph Waldo Emerson and Jean Louis Lebris de Kerouacwere both born near Boston, one hundred and twenty years apart. The paper shows however, that the similarities in their regard to literary history, as well as the connection between the two in regards to their lives and early writing, is sufficient enough to draw many parallels between them. It shows that both men, as writers and as citizens of America, felt compelled by their discontent and discouragement at the state of affairs in their country, to stake out new ground and develop a new relation to their society and the world at large.
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"How does the Beat Generation and the America of the 1950?s compare with the social, political, and religious turmoil of the early America Emerson lived in? Both times in our country?s history were marked, to a large degree, by an unusual level of conformity. The youth generation?s reaction was to, not only fight against it, but to develop a completely alternate mode of consciousness with its own laws, its own set of values, and its own search for a ?new and original relation? to the universe. However, my argument is not to so much compare these two times in American history, but rather to show how the conditions of America in the 1950?s led to similar questions and similar quests among the youth generation. These questions and quests, when stripped down to a common denominator are essentially spiritual. ?By a generation,? wrote F.Scott Fitzgerald, ?I mean that reaction against fathers which seems to occur about three times a century. It is distinguished by a set ideas,[and] inherited in moderated form from the madmen and outlaws of the generation before.?1
For Kerouac, and other writers of the Beat Generation, the uncertainty, the provincialism, and social disintegration of Post World War II America, led to a feeling of shiftlessness, indifference, aversion to conformity, and the need to extract all that life had to offer. The green lawns and white picket fences of Middle Class America, the sense of security many people looked for in the aftermath of World War II, held no allure to Jack and his friends. Norman Mailer?s essay ?The White Negro? describes the Beat Generation as characterized by a quest ?to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness.?2"
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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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"Papa Jack", 2002.
A book report on "Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes" by Randy Roberts.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper will discuss Randy Roberts' book, "Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes" and seek to understand this boxer in light of the research that Roberts has done him. By understanding the life of a black boxer in the early years of the sport, we can see how this creative work uncover sthe racism and attitude of the boxing world in the era of Papa Jack.
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Kerouac and American Literature, 2001.
This essay examines America's identity crisis as portrayed in Kerouac's "On the Road".
1,310 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper explores Jack Kerouac's famous book, "On the Road", about rootless kids looking for kicks. The writer discusses the characters in light of America's loss of identity from the time of the Puritans until the modern era, and how Kerouac used Black culture to fill the identity void.
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"Kerouac's" On the Road" has a complicated relationship to America and American literature. On the one hand, it breaks from the evolving literary tradition within America through its elevation of Afro-American culture, and its depiction of largely irresponsible individuals driven by their need for excess and stimulation. On the other hand, "On the Road" seems to embrace, even subsume, the themes and impulses of earlier literary traditions-traditions that paralleled and somehow responded to the changing cultural and political climates in which they found themselves."
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