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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
I like parts of this book. The parts I didn’t like made it more difficult to fully give in to. I really liked the general feeling that it evoked. The running around to hopefully discover something. The something appears to be a deity figure or father figure (the same thing, really). Dean starts as this godlike figure who, over the course of the book and looking eternally for the father who abandoned him, reveals himself to Sal as a lost soul. Maybe in some ways Dean had so many troubles because he refused to be “beat” down like the rest of his generation. Or he held out longer.
In many ways I think Americans discovered that they were beat and then decided that was their fate. The way this manifests is different person to person, but on the whole I think America discovered that it was essentially dead in the water once we came out of World War II. We go in cycles of ignoring it and then realizing jt again. But I’m not sure we’ll ever do anything to change.
I had a hard time with how women are treated in this. And especially how non-white people are seen as inhumane oracles of whatever white American men think they have lost. It serves a purpose but was the aspect that most bothered me.
Over all, I’m glad I read even if it left me sad.
In many ways I think Americans discovered that they were beat and then decided that was their fate. The way this manifests is different person to person, but on the whole I think America discovered that it was essentially dead in the water once we came out of World War II. We go in cycles of ignoring it and then realizing jt again. But I’m not sure we’ll ever do anything to change.
I had a hard time with how women are treated in this. And especially how non-white people are seen as inhumane oracles of whatever white American men think they have lost. It serves a purpose but was the aspect that most bothered me.
Over all, I’m glad I read even if it left me sad.