Jack Kerouac’s On The Road - Ranting of a Maniac or Precise Interpreta

Jack Kerouacs On the road Ranting of a swashbuckler or Precise Interpretation of Reality? Jack Kerouacs On the path is considered the bible of the Beat Generation, illustrating the wild, wandering, and reckless lifestyle chosen by legion(predicate) young people of the m. Despite all of Dean and Sals partying and pleasure-cruising, On the Road ends up being a sad and disturbing story. During all the trips, finished the good times and the bad times, there is a sense of swarthiness and foreboding following in the wake. Kerouacs point was not to put on display the wild and good times the Beats were having, but quite a to expose their way of life as a simple public life from reality and right. The sadness of this novel is due to the accumulation of consequences stemming from the characters irresponsibility and widely distributed lack of direction. Dean and Sal, however, never fully admit this to themselves. Part of the storys witness is Sals non-judgmental narrative. To prese rve this, Kerouac must carefully incorporate these find outs while leaving Sal reasonably oblivious to them. This is done using other characters to implant the notion of looming responsibility and reality into the story, and to communicate to the reader that life really is more weighty than Sal admits in his narration. While Deans home base is a wifes house passim most of the story, Sal has his aunt, a dependable and caring woman who vocalizes her opinions of his lifestyle and friends. Chapter cinque begins with Sals brief discussion of her feelings. My aunt said I was wasting my time hanging around with Dean and his gang. I knew that was wrong, too. Life is life, and kind is kind. (129) hither Kerouac uses Sals own commentary to get his point across. While Sal ... ...een set aside. Carlo continues his saving The days of wrath are yet to come. The balloon wont sustain you more than longer.... Youll all go flying to the West Coast and come lurch back in search of your ston e. (130) Is this the ranting of a maniacal typist, or a precise interpretation of reality cleverly inserted by the condition? Kerouacs method of inserting ideas through Sals narration allows him to incorporate an important differing point of view that Sal is incapable of until the very end of the story. Had Kerouac not wanted to communicate these ideas, Sal could bonnie as easily have not mentioned these instances, or described them in a different light. Without the opinions of these other characters, the book would be one-sided, and quite a bit more shallow in its message. Works CitedKerouac, Jack.On the Road. New York Penguin Books, 1975.