In the first several chapters of “On the Road,” by Jack Kerouac, he sets the scene for what is to come, and lays the ground work for a great journey and quest he is to set out on. He introduces several characters and a small background of his characters past life. After reading the introduction to the book and learning about Jack’s journey and friends influence it it evident that he drew greatly from first hand experiences in his life, and embellished slightly to write a rich and extremely detailed faux autobiography. I loved the introduction to the character Dean Moriarty, whom Jack admires greatly and is drawn to, it the quote below, he practically lays out why this novel was written. It’s due to the fact that the author, like the main character wants to live life to the fullest, and thus attaches himself to people who live it wildly. He chooses to live his life along one great extreme, violently throwing himself into weird, improbable and unstable situations, collecting the memories one by one, instead of sitting back and allowing life to take him on his course, he wills the course he is to take.
“But then they danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to life, mad to talk, mad to be saved. Desirous of everything at thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candle exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blur center light pop and everybody goes “Awww!” page 5-6
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