Beat Generation

             Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs were the
             behind the Beat Generation. Their writings and revolutionary narrative
             created a national sensation that is still debated in modern literary
             of these writers authored a great many distinctive novels and poems, the
             examination will be an analysis of On the Road, Howl, and Naked Lunch.
             these works imprinted each of the aforementioned writer's footprints in the
             literary landscape of the mid-twentieth century. Although each of these
             credence to a "beat" movement in literature during the 1950's, perhaps
             Road reflects the most respected work of the bunch.
             On the Road, at first glance seems incoherent, but as the novel
             that the story moves from a superficial sense of order to a deeper, more
             of openness. The narrative is an experience so that an open-ended approach
             appropriate. The narrator's desire to keep it open-ended is evident in the
             where to render events of a happier part of his life without as much as
             contaminating his feelings about other parts of his life. For instance,
             of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life you would call my life on the
             5). In essence, Kerouac's narrator suggests that his true existential life
             break-up, and that there is no necessary destination that can be ordered or
             the case with is former life. This narrated experience also maintains
             narrator's final assimilation of events with the moment of dramatization.
             last paragraph, the narrator continues in the present tense, "So in America
             goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier," (253) we can
             the parts of his life come together and are inclusive. Hence the term,
             suggests such a unity as a river is fluid with no apparent end, yet he
             and reasonable end to this experience.
             One of Kerouac's accomplishments in this story is to unify the open
             all points of view in the novel are combined without being resolved) with a
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