Upon his arrival, he discovers that he’s just missed Dean.
Sal returns to New York and goes to his aunt’s house. He struggles with difficult manual labor jobs (which are all he can find) and realizes that he must leave Terry and return east.
During his travels, he meets a young Mexican woman named Terry and spends several months living with her and her young son in a tent. Sal and Remi work dead-end jobs and struggle to make ends meet- until Sal decides to hit the road again. Sal eventually leaves Denver for San Francisco, reuniting with his old friend Remi Boncoeur. In Denver, he meets up with Dean, Carlo, and others, and they attend crazy parties and hold long, introspective conversations deep into the night. On his way to Denver, Sal rides with truck drivers and farmers, sometimes travels by bus, and meets many colorful fellow passengers. Inspired by Dean and eager for adventure, Sal decides to live life to its fullest by hitchhiking to Denver to meet up with Dean and their friend Carlo Marx (based on poet Allen Ginsberg). Whether stealing cars for fun, taking any drugs he can find, or committing bigamy by marrying two women, Dean's persistent criminality and refusal to adhere to social norms charm Sal. Dean, who was recently released from prison, breaks the rules of society in a way that Sal could never imagine doing. Having recently divorced and recovered from an illness, he meets a chaotic young man named Dean Moriarty (based on Kerouac’s close friend Neal Cassady) whose exuberance has a profound effect on him. Sal Paradise (based on Kerouac) is a young writer living on the East Coast of the US in the late 1940s. Hailed as a modern classic, it was adapted into a film (released in 2012) by the same name. With its vibrant characters and incredible life experiences, the novel is an indelible snapshot of mid-century American restlessness and a burgeoning counterculture. Many consider On the Road one of the 20th century’s most important and influential novels. In striking contrast to these intellectuals, however, is the central character, whose journeys are more literal-and whose love of life on the road is infectious. Burroughs (who penned the 1959 novel Naked Lunch). Sal Paradise (Kerouac’s pseudonym) is the story’s protagonist and narrator, while other key characters stand in for fellow Beat luminaries in his circle, including poet Allen Ginsberg (best known for the revolutionary 1956 poem Howl) and writer William S.
0 kommentar(er)
