Road

Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" was first published in 1957. It is a poignant story of a friendship between two young men Sal Paradise and Dean Moriary, who journey four adventures across America in the span of three years. Their journeys lead them through the process of maturity, found happiness, and personal disappointments. The central theme of the story is personal freedom and the challenges that are faced when seeking the promise of the great American dream. It is also the idealistic message of every generation of youth that discover the disillusionment of the corruption of the world. Upon its publication, Gilbert Millstein wrote that "On the Road" was "the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat,' and whose principle avatar he is" (Pate 1997).

Sal's character acts as a narrator for the story...
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