A Study Guide for Jack Kerouac's On the Road
()
About this ebook
Read more from Gale
A study guide for Frank Herbert's "Dune" Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide for James Clavell's "Shogun" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Louis Sachar's "Holes" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for William Shakespeare's Macbeth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for George Orwell's Animal Farm Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Lois Lowry's The Giver Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Psychologists and Their Theories for Students: ALBERT BANDURA Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBusiness Plans Handbook: Bakery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBusiness Plans Handbook: Furniture Businesses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for James Joyce's "James Joyce's Ulysses" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Psychologists and Their Theories for Students: JEAN PIAGET Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide (New Edition) for William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Haruki Murakami's "Kafka on the Shore" Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide for John Rawls's "A Theory of Justice" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide (New Edition) for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Shirley Jackson's The Lottery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for George Orwell's 1984 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide for Wole Soyinka's "Death and the King's Horsemen" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to A Study Guide for Jack Kerouac's On the Road
Related ebooks
A Study Guide for Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Christ Climbed Down" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for T. S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRadiacls, Beats and Beboppers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Quick Guide to "On the Road" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for "Beat Movement" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary and Analysis of "On the Road" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Noise of Typewriters: Remembering Journalism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Paradise Road: Jack Kerouac's Lost Highway and My Search for America Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5We, Too, Must Love Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Roaring Eighties and Other Good Times Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStudy Guide to The Octopus by Frank Norris Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBirth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Walk Alone Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5D.C. Noir 2: The Classics Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide for Sinclair Lewis's Main Street Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Red Badge of Courage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThis Time, That Place: Selected Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRich People Behaving Badly Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Beat Generation: A Beginner's Guide Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEqual to Mystery: In Search of Harold Sonny Ladoo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSinai Tapestry Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Maxim Gorky's "The Lower Depths" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNick and Jake: An Epistolary Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Light Shining Out of Darkness: And Other Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerican Notes for General Circulation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Skyrider Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Cane" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5On the Road by Jack Kerouac (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Literary Criticism For You
The Art of Seduction: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/512 Rules For Life: by Jordan Peterson | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As I Lay Dying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 48 Laws of Power: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Man's Search for Meaning: by Viktor E. Frankl | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Reader’s Companion to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Alone: by Kristin Hannah | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Letters to a Young Poet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.by Brené Brown | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Virtues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Verity: by Colleen Hoover | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Court of Thorns and Roses: A Novel by Sarah J. Maas | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Killers of the Flower Moon: by David Grann | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Lincoln Lawyer: A Mysterious Profile Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Power of Habit: by Charles Duhigg | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain | Conversation Starters Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Moby Dick (Complete Unabridged Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for A Study Guide for Jack Kerouac's On the Road
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
A Study Guide for Jack Kerouac's On the Road - Gale
1
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
1957
Introduction
The literary movement known as the Beat Generation exploded into American consciousness with two books in the late 1950s. The first, Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, was published in 1956. The book achieved notoriety when poet and bookstore owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti went to trial for selling it in San Francisco. The second book had an even more profound cultural effect when it was published. Jack Kerouac's On the Road, published in 1957, was viewed as nothing less than a manifesto for the Beat Generation.
On the Road is the story of two young men, Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, who travel frantically back and forth across the American continent seeking thrills. The novel is actually a thinly veiled account of Kerouac's own life in the late 1940s, when he fell under the spell of a charismatic drifter named Neal Cassady (represented by Mori-arty in the novel). Every episode in the novel was inspired by real-life events. The book, which would probably be considered rather tame today, shocked readers in 1957 with its depiction of drug use and promiscuous sex. Many critics attacked the work as evidence of the increasing immorality of American youth. Other critics saw it as a groundbreaking work of originality. American readers, fascinated with the bohemian lifestyle of the characters, turned the novel into a best-seller.
The Beat literary movement was short-lived. Most of the work Kerouac published in the 1960s had been written during his creative peak in the 1950s. Beat literature retains its popularity decades later because the writers of the Beat Generation must ultimately be judged by their work, not by any real or imagined influence on popular culture. Allen Ginsberg's poetry is still revered. The nightmarish visions of William Burroughs continue to influence post-Modern writers. Finally, Kerouac's On the Road is still a campus favorite, and continues to draw scholarly criticism.
Author Biography
Kerouac was born on March 22, 1922, in Lowell, Massachusetts. His parents, Leo and Gabrielle, were French-Canadian immigrants. Ti Jean
(Little Jean), as he was known as a child, lived in the shadow of his sickly, angelic brother, Gerard. Gerard was barely ten years old when he died of rheumatic fever, and his death had such a profound effect on Kerouac that he later wrote a novel about his brother entitled Visions of Gerard. Kerouac had a lively imagination as a boy. He scripted his own movies
and acted them out in front of the family Victrola and later illustrated them in his own comic books. He created a complex baseball game with an ordinary deck of playing cards that he would play throughout his life. In the early years of his life, Kerouac was a solitary child with few friends. However, he soon grew into a handsome, athletic young man.
Kerouac excelled at football in high school and attracted the attention of coaches from several major colleges. An athletic scholarship to Columbia brought him to New York City. He dropped out of Columbia when World