The Beat Generation
When Sal began his journey on the road, he was a young writer with nothing to lose. He had no plans set for the future of his life and could do whatever he wanted to. Life had been extremely dull for him in the past and it wasn’t until he met Dean Moriarty when anything drastically changed in his life. Sal begins a journey in which he attempts to become more and more in tune with himself and tries to discover his inner soul. He says, “Somewhere along the line I knew there’d be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.” (Kerouac, 8) Through his endeavor, Sal was able to gain a better perspective on his life, and turn his life into something positive that had much promise for the future. In the beginning of the novel, Sal seems somewhat weakened and depressed. He’s a grown man but continues to reside in his aunt’s house, spending much of his time writing at home. Him and his wife had just split up and he says, “I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won’t bother to talk about, except that it had something to do with the miserably weary split-up and my feeling that everything was dead.” (Kerouac, 1) He never actually discloses what this illness that he speaks of actually is, but
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Approximate Word count = 883
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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