Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs were the
behind the Beat Generation. Their writings and revolutionary narrative
created a national sensation that is still debated in modern literary
of these writers authored a great many distinctive novels and poems, the
examination will be an analysis of On the Road, Howl, and Naked Lunch.
these works imprinted each of the aforementioned writer's footprints in the
literary landscape of the mid-twentieth century. Although each of these
credence to a "beat" movement in literature during the 1950's, perhaps
Road reflects the most respected work of the bunch.
On the Road, at first glance seems incoherent, but as the novel
that the story moves from a superficial sense of order to a deeper, more
of openness. The narrative is an experience so that an open-ended approach
appropriate. The narrator's desire to keep it open-ended is evident in the
where to render events of a happier part of his life without as much as
contaminating his feelings about other parts of his life. For instance,
of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life you would call my life on the
5). In essence, Kerouac's narrator suggests that his true existential life
break-up, and that there is no necessary destination that can be ordered or
the case with is former life. This narrated experience also maintains
narrator's final assimilation of events with the moment of dramatization.
last paragraph, the narrator continues in the present tense, "So in America
goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier," (253) we can
the parts of his life come together and are inclusive. Hence the term,
suggests such a unity as a river is fluid with no apparent end, yet he
and reasonable end to this experience.
One of Kerouac's accomplishments in this story is to unify the open
all points of view in the novel are combined without being resolved) with a
novel...