Neal Cassady Essays

in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” This quote from Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road, sums up the Beat Generation of the 1950’s well. The Beat Generation was defined originally by a small group of young writers: Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs, who all met at Columbia University. As a group, they were ’beat down’, as it were, by the conformity and monotony of the mainstream 1950’s culture- the insistence upon working in an office and

John Kerouac, as well as all the Beats, by today’s standards would probably be labelled as just shy of crazy. He would go out and take long winded trips across the country with his friend Neal Cassady in search of girls and new adventures. He would spend days at a time sitting in front of his typewriter, writing every detail he could possibly think of while under the influence of drugs and alcohol. He would live life with the “YOLO” mindset, as did most of the Beat Generation boys. Out of all the

With drugs, sex, and typewriters at the tips of their fingers, the Beat Generation held the 1950s and many future generations in their palms with their rapid, spontaneous lifestyles and reputations of adventures so… beat. One of the most well-known novels from their literary movement and a prime example of their ways of life was On the Road, written by Jack Kerouac, noted as ‘The King of the Beats’ by many (Morgan xx). And while many critics believe the novel to be a piece of writing that “[leaves]

Dean particularly is the “hero-prince of all Beat people, a 'madman angel and bum' out to con the North American nightmare of a chance for his soul to live” (Tallman). Dean Moriarty resembles Kerouac’s friend and fellow beat writer, Neal Cassady while Carlo Marx is based on Allen Ginsberg, a close friend of Kerouac’s. Sal spent a night listening to Dean and Carlo talk without offering anything because he felt, “I was a lout compared, I couldn’t keep up with them” (Kerouac, 5). Kerouac

Most literary movements can be traced back to a specific time and place. It begins with a few writers defying the previous movement’s rules. The Renaissance began with two. The romantics: five. Following suit, the Beat generation was born when a few friends in and around Columbia University joined together to start a literary revolution. Defiant, free, and unattached, the Beats believed poetry didn’t have to follow rhyme and meter to have meaning. They believed in throwing out the general rules of

The Beat writer, Neal Cassady, was an enormous motivation and inspiration of many of the writers in New York. Neal Cassady even influenced a fellow writer, Jack Kerouac, to write a book called On the Road, which describes the two authors making road trips all over the country in the quest to gain more knowledge, inner peace, and personal satisfaction. Kerouac states the nature and freeness of what it is like to be on the road and traveling to many different places, sometimes unusual and unfamiliar

4.3 Feminist Heroine or Sexualized “Hussy”?: Criticism on Marston’s Wonder Woman While Wonder Woman is one of the most revolutionary character, there is also a lot of criticism regarding her appearance, different motifs in the comics and the message the character might send. Primarily Marston’s many depictions of bondage, as previously discussed, and Wonder Woman’s choice of weaponry are often considered inappropriate, especially since Wonder Woman was initial marketed as a children’s comic. The

In Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Sal Paradise, the narrator and representative of Jack Kerouac, begins to identify himself with the with the Beat Generation, formed after World War II. The Beats were a group of young men who protested against the mainstream life. They found the lack of culture in America’s middle-class lifestyle to be bland; the concerns of marriage, life in the suburbs, children, wealth, and possessions did not interest the Beats. In opposition towards most people of their age, Sal

Jack Kerouac is an unconventional and controversial American novelist. He was once called “most misunderstood and underestimated writer.” Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in an old manufacturing town on the Merrimac River. Kerouac’s parents, both devouted to Roman Catholics came from rural communities in the French-Speaking part of Quebec, and French was the language spoken in the Kerouac’s home. As a member of the Beat Generation, Kerouac used drugs both as a social statement of rebellion

Despite growing up in the same house, Aunty Ifeoma and Papa Eugene from the book, Purple Hibiscus, raises their children in contrasting manners. Papa Eugene oppresses his children from having individuality and results to violent punishments when his children go against his views. On the other hand,Aunty Ifeoma is more understanding to her children’s decisions in life and uses more peaceful means to bring her points across. Another clear difference between Ifeoma and Eugene is the teaching methods

Born in the 1920s, Jack Kerouac has grown through a time in which was a diverging age, yet has endured anxieties of what America should represent. The American Dream playing a role in this period, was the ideal life in which consolidation and cultural hegemony were sought at the expense of individualism and spiritualism. Yet, these ambitions still left Americans with lingering anxieties, thus being the reason why Kerouac had taken up a new philosophy; the Beat Generation. Known for advocating purification

Beat poetry evolved during the 1940's in both New York City and on the west coast, although San Francisco became the heart of the movement in the early 1950's. The end of World War II left poets like Allen Gingsberg, Gary SNyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Gregory Corso questioning maintream politics and culture. These poets would become known as the Beat generation, a group of writers interested in changing consciousness and defying conventional writing. The Beats were also closely interwined with

Anne Sexton belongs to the group of poets usually regarded as’’ confessional poets’’. She uses her poetry as a means to express her sufferings, mental illness and desire for death. The poem ‘’Wanting to Die’’ published in Sexton’s third collection of poems, Live or Die, demonstrates her obsession with death. It is also her literary suicide note as Sylvia Plath wrote Edge, few days before her death. In this poem, she discusses the reasons to commit suicide and her fascination for it with a person

The slam poetry Slam poetry is a spoken-word form of poetry that is largely influenced by the free verse, musical style of Beat poets like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. It first took hold in the U.S. in the 1980’s, when open mic sessions started taking place at cafés in cities like New York, San Francisco, and Austin (Marc smith 2003). The founder of the slam poetry goes with the name of Marc Kelly Smith.in this project I will be looking on South African poetry. On how they write and the style

Matt Brickner Beat Class 9/27/16 On the Road After reading Jack Kerouac’s novel, hearing that there was actually a movie adaptation immediately struck me because I was trying to think about how a director would go about turning Kerouac’s writing style into a film with an apparent plot. The reason I thought this was because On the Road is written in a way that I don’t think I can draw an accurate comparison in other literature I have read. The book is written in a very “stream of thought” sort of

Introduction The Beatniks were a very misunderstood group of people. They didn’t exactly understand themselves either, they would often try to explore themselves through drugs, sex, and art (Berg 2002). They drew inspiration from the earlier Beat Movement authors. Those Beat Movement authors tried to dissociate themselves from the Beatniks, but with little success. The Beatniks faced a lot of flack from the rest of the population and the media for the way they dressed and their lingo. The Beatniks

Langston Hughes’ poem, “Dream Boogie” dramatizes the double consciousness of an African-American. It shows that even during a time of happiness, such as the Harlem Renaissance, an African-American still experiences pain and despair due to the negative impact of race relations. The poem also depicts the limitations that include the inability to succeed one’s dream and the disappointment of not reaching equality. There are two speakers in the poem. The main speaker is well aware of his positon in life

The feminist theory is based on finding and exposing negative attitudes toward women in literature. Their goal is to reveal the reality of how women get portrayed in literature due to the fact that most literature presents an inaccurate view of women and are most of the time minimized. In the Catcher in the Rye there is a few female characters such as Sunny, the girls at the club, and Sally who are put in situations that show nothing but stereotypes and puts them in a bad spot throughout the novel

Allen Ginsberg 's "Howl" is a thought-provoking piece used to epitomize and give a voice to the Beat Movement of the mid-20th century as they sought to soundly reject nearly every aspect of society. Within his writing, Ginsberg is quite literally "howling" his frustration and anger regarding the conformism that he perceives as plaguing the population. He seeks to abolish and defeat those narrow standards by illuminating this issue and protesting the havoc it has wreaked on even the best, most brilliant

The road can have many different meanings and symbolize an array of philosophical and theoretical meanings. For some it is merely a connection from one place to another, and to others the meaning is deeper and more profound. For those who find a deeper connection and a spiritual tone the road find it symbolizes things such as hope, despair, life, and death. Films, books, and other media sources use “the american road” to adhere to what the author or director believes explains the meaning of life