One The Road, is a novel written by Jack Kerouac. It is an ingeniouse novel
about lust, envy, and greed. It deals with the adventures of one young man, who is
searching for a meaning in life and realizes that he knew what it was all along. All he
wanted was a vacation away from school, but what he got was more than what he
On The Road, takes place in the late 1940's and deals with the agonies and
frustrations of hitch-hiking all throughout America , making new friends, new lovers,
and ultimately having to leave them. For Sal Paradise this became a way of life. Sal is
a guy who just wants to explore the world and live every minute of his life to the
fullest. He wants to seize the day without having anyone interfere. Sal finds himself
sleeping around with many of the local prostitutes and thinks he is in love, when
in reality he is just having meaningless sex. He falls in love with a beautiful mexican
girl that he truly cares for, but he soon leaves her like he does all the others. Sal
learns a lot about himself and lessons about the world around him that help him on
The setting plays a big part in this novel. On The Road, usually takes place in
New York, California ,and in the backseat of some strangers car. Sal would ride from
state to state hitch-hiking. Many times him and Dean are in bars where the atmosphere
is really stale ,dull, and the room is filled with smoke. Theses are the places where Sal
and Dean usually find their women. Sal is also in buses traveling from town to town,
in which he finds a beautiful young mexican girl that he falls in love with but soon has
In one part of the story, it takes place in a cotton field where Sal and his
current girlfriend Terry, pick cotton. The hot sun burns their backs as they pick soft
cotton off of the thorny bushes. This is the only way for them to make enough money
could eat and afford a place to l...