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             To gain freedom from the restraints of life they rebelled against everything that seemed normal to regular citizens of society. "Kerouac's novels are more readily summarized than Ginsberg's poetry or the Beat's innovations in lifestyles, but all three manifest a rebellion against the establishment- the goals and habits of middle class America" (Neil 306). Most see this as a combination of ignorance and stupidity. "These young 'haters of everything' can seem nothing more than spoiled brats, rejecting a civilization they have not bothered to understand and done nothing to deserve, wrecking lives and other people's Cadillac's with equal relish and for no reason at all, sponging on relatives they despise, pretending a superiority which is only a big bag of loudmouthed nastiness" (Champney 285). One of the major parts of being a beat is constant movement from place to place. "For Kerouac's hoboes the very act of going on the road amounts to a ki
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