All Quiet On The Road Essay

Kerouac wrote about a time where one could be free to do anything all they had to do was get up and go. “Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.''Where we going, man?''I don't know but we gotta go.”(Kerouac 89). It was easy to leave all problems behind and hop on the road to see where it takes them without the thought of no regret. People were different and it was acceptable due to the post war belief of despair. Literature Analysis website writes about the main character's ambition compared to America's pastime by stating, “Sal’s migrant lifestyle and excitement at future possibilities when he goes on the road can also be seen as especially American. The United States is, after all, both proverbially a land of opportunity,

Jack kerouac wrote this novel to reflect on his own road to self discovery when he was lost seeking salvation. “In that novel Kerouac makes it clear that Sal Paradise goes on the road to escape from life rather than to find it, that he runs from the intimacy and responsibility of more demanding human relationships, and from a more demanding human relationship with himself.”(Vopat). Which explained the overall struggle adolescents had during the post war era. SaL the main character developed of a sense of struggles when he realized he was lost and bottling up his emotion from the divorce and hiding the slowly developing depression (Kerouac 1). What Sal needed was to find himself and find a solution to the depression by letting loose of all obligation and truly give himself up to the almighty road. This action is what led him to success and opened a door to endless opportunity.. Kerouac used the characters in the novel to generalize the people who had suffered from america's political wrath. The idea of the road was there to inspire people to walk around thinking that there is a future that lies within themselves and all they had to do was look in the right direction. The road was used as a metaphor to symbolize the search for identity and to know the meaning of being lost and finding a detour to get back on the same road you started. Kerouac wants