Jack Kerouac’s On The Road - Ranting of a Maniac or Precise Interpreta

Jack Kerouacs On the Road Ranting of a Maniac or Precise Interpretation of Reality? Jack Kerouacs On the Road is considered the volume of the Beat Generation, illustrating the wild, wandering, and reckless lifestyle chosen by many teenaged people of the time. Despite on the whole of Dean and Sals partying and pleasure-cruising, On the Road ends up being a sad and disturbing story. During all the trips, through the undecomposed times and the bad times, there is a sense of darkness and premonition following in the wake. Kerouacs point was not to put on present the wild and good times the Beats were having, but rather to weaken their way of life as a simple flight from realness and responsibility. The sadness of this novel is due to the accumulation of consequences stemming from the characters irresponsibility and general leave out of direction. Dean and Sal, however, never fully admit this to themselves. Part of the storys beauty is Sals non-judgmental narrative. To detain t his, Kerouac must carefully incorporate these views while leaving Sal somewhat unmindful(predicate) to them. This is done using other characters to implant the notion of looming responsibility and world into the story, and to communicate to the reader that life really is more serious than Sal admits in his narration. While Deans home base is a wifes house throughout well-nigh of the story, Sal has his aunt, a dependable and caring woman who vocalizes her opinions of his lifestyle and friends. Chapter Five begins with Sals draft discussion of her feelings. My aunt said I was wasting my time break around with Dean and his gang. I knew that was wrong, too. Life is life, and kind is kind. (129) Here Kerouac uses Sals testify commentary to get his point across. While Sal ... ...een set aside. Carlo continues his speech The days of wrath are yet to come. The balloon wont sustain you much longer.... Youll all go flying to the West Coast and come staggering arse in search of your stone. (130) Is this the ranting of a maniacal typist, or a precise interpretation of reality cleverly inserted by the author? Kerouacs method of inserting ideas through Sals narration allows him to incorporate an important differing point of view that Sal is unequal to(p) of until the very end of the story. Had Kerouac not wanted to communicate these ideas, Sal could just as easily have not mentioned these instances, or described them in a different light. Without the opinions of these other characters, the book would be one-sided, and quite a hour more shallow in its message. Works CitedKerouac, Jack.On the Road. New York Penguin Books, 1975.