That voice in the back of your head, does it drive you insane or have you come to control and silence it? Jack Kerouac didn't believe in silence of the mind. He stayed true to his own opinions, and didn't buy into all of the bull crap everyone else gets sucked into. He knew what reality meant to him, and that all that really mattered. On The Road is not considered the novel of the century only by critics, but also anyone who comes across his writings. On The Road literally takes place on the road. These are his thoughts while traveling across the country.
One of his first conversations to take place in the book is between Jack and Dean, which is his friend he is bringing along on his trip. Dean some what inspires Jack to go on his journey; even though Dean himself is coming to Kerouac with questions on how to be a writer...
The house in Orlando, Florida where Kerouac lived ...
Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road
Lowell, Massachusetts Grave site, Lowell Massachus..."Hell, man, ,I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except you've got to stick to it with the energy of a Benny addict."
"Yes, of course, I know exactly what you mean and in fact all those problems have occurred to me, but the thing that I want is the realization of those factors."
"In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jail kid all hung-up on the wonderful possibilities of becoming a real intellectual, ,and he liked to talk in the tone and using the words, but in a jumbled way, ,that he had head from "real intellectuals" although, mind you, he wasn't so naïve as that in all...