A review by sahajgill
On the Road by Jack Kerouac

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Was hard to see how invested the main character Sal was in this other loose cannon character Dean, almost to the point of obsession. We could see that when Sal was alone, he was much more thoughtful, reflective, inspired, but when he was with Dean, he was more of a follower. He would follow this man Dean to the ends of the earth, when we clearly saw Dean leave Sal when  he needed Dean the most, suffering of dysentery in Mexico City. I think if I had read this book five years ago, when I was younger and maybe a bit more lost, I would have loved the characters a bit more, for the adventure of it all traveling across the country with little more than what was on their backs. But i think reading this as someone who is a bit older, it was hard getting around the characters and their flaws.