Essays Tagged: "Dean Moriarty"
Life Is A Journey Compare and Contrast how life is a journey. Comparing 2 works of literature you read in the summer.
he theme "life is a journey". This novel is about two characters, Sal Paradise, a young writer, and Dean Moriarty, a wild youth who lives life to the fullest. Together they go all around America; thei ... e strongest theme in this novel. By reading the title alone this theme is dominant, because Sal and Dean are constantly traveling from one place to another. Sal is a confused person, who can't decide ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Comparative Essays
The Quest For Identity In On The Road
ife defining experience. "...He was waiting to see the face of God" (Honan 1987:ix). Then Sal meets Dean Moriarty (a.k.a Neil Cassady), the "...saint of freedom who values experience, movement, and th ... ost as superhuman "...he's the best in the world" (Kerouac 1955:192). This leads to Sal's following Dean around the country for years, hoping to find 'IT' but finding the task more and more difficult ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Kerouac and Tyler, "On the Road" and "Saint Maybe" - Comparison and critique
t for an extended period of time. He actually spends a year living the normal life. All it takes is Dean roaring up in a beat-up Hudson to send him back in full force to the road. For most of the rest ... s there..." This last sentence is the key, of course. Separated from his friends, most particularly Dean, Sal gives in to the stereotypical American mindset. But when he finds Dean again, and Camille ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
On the Road
eatnik traveler looking for something more in his life than the tedious life he lives, and his hero Dean Moriarty, a true representative of beat life in America and a mad man. Sal desires meaning for ... e begins a great American journey looking for everything and nothing, following in the footsteps of Dean and his friend Carlo Marx. Instead of making use of the money he has earned he takes to the roa ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
On the Road to Individualism; Off the Road of Conformity
themselves" (Dunphy). Sal's solution to his angst is to set off across America with his best friend Dean Moriarty, a solution Kerouac deems appropriate in order to escape the monotony in New York. Ker ... ir comes a fresh start, but only if one is willing to challenge the societal chains confining them. Dean Moriarty is the ideal prototype of a rebellious individual; he helps define the Beat Gener ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors