Allen Ginsberg was a man that grew up through hard times. He did what he wanted and made a huge impact on the Beatnik movement and through the Hippie era. His unique style of writing and his carefree attitude toward what people thought of his writings and his lifestyle is what people truly remember of Ginsberg. (Asher)
             Ginsberg was the son of a moderately socialist Jewish father that taught high school kids and in his spare time wrote poetry. Ginsberg's mother was a radical communist nudist that went insane in her early twenties. Ginsberg was born and grew up in Paterson, New Jersey. Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 to Louis and Naomi Ginsberg. Growing up Ginsberg had to deal with his mother's crazy actions. Ginsberg had a love for boys his age while growing up. (Asher)
             In high school Ginsberg read and wrote some poetry. Most of the poetry he read was by Beatnik rewriter Walt Whitman. He enjoyed reading and writing poetry, but instead he decided to listen to his father and become a labor lawyer. He attended college at Columbia University. During his freshman year at Columbia Ginsberg met a few guys he started to hang out with. They were students, Lucien Carr and Jack Kerouac. He also ran around with William S. Burroughs and Neal Cassady. These young men were into drugs, alcohol, crime, sex, and literature. Ginsberg helped the others learn about literature. The group eventually got kicked out of college because of their bad behavior. (Asher)
             The group began hanging around the streets of New York. They started doing all kinds of drugs and running around gay bars. Ginsberg and friend Kerouac believed that they were heading in the direction of a new poetic movement that they called the New Vision. Ginsberg had an affair with Cassady. Ginsberg began doing more and more crazy things. (Asher)
             As Ginsberg grew older so did his mother's condition. His mother was eventually put in a hospital for the rest of her life u...