On The Road
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A 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. It a roman à clef, with many key figures in the Beat movement, such as William S. Burroughs (Old Bull Lee), Allen Ginsberg (Carlo Marx) and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty) represented by characters in the book, including Kerouac himself as the narrator Sal Paradise. The novel was typed out on a continuous reel... Show more
On The Road
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25 Questions

1. How Does Gray Describe Dean?

2. What Is The Next Theme?

3. What Cannot/Can The Car Prolong? Give An Example From The Text.

4. Talk About The 'male Gaze' In The Novel (Quote).

5. Give A Quotation From The Text That Suggests That Dean Is Affected By His Fatherlessness.

6. What Does Richard Gray Describe Kerouac's Prose As - In A Musical Sense - And What Does It Catch?

7. What Does Gray State About The Novel And The Self And Space?

8. What Is The First Theme?

9. What Does Michael Kimmel Say About How Males Did Not Want To Be Too Boring?

10. What Type Of Style Does Richard Gray Say Kerouac Employs?

11. What Does Rachel Ligairi Say About The 'baudrillardian Real'? Give An Example From The Text.

12. What Was Kerouac's Original Scroll Like? Give An Example

13. How Else Does Kerouac Emulate Textual Motion? What Does This Type Of Technique Embody?

14. What Dilemma Does The Novel Exhibit? Explain. Also - Give An Example About Sal's Obsession With Dean.

15. What Did Richard Gray Say About Kerouac's Style?

16. What Does Michael Kimmel Say About Martin Duberman's 1977 Play?

17. What About Music Had Changed By The Time The Novel Was Published In 1957? What Does That Implicate For On The Road As A Novel?

18. Give A Quotation From The Text That Exhibits Sal's Strange Attitude To 'queers' In The Novel.

19. How Did Kerouac Type Up The First Version Of The Novel?

20. What Does Dean Become? Give An Example From The Text. Explain

21. Give A Quotation From The Text That Describes The Men As 'hipsters'.

22. What Does Mary Carden Say Dean's Cars Allow Him?

23. What Does Norman Mailer Say About People?

24. Why Is Isomorphic Thinking Is Holistic?

25. Is Sal Certain Of His Own Manhood - Or Of His Own Self? Give An Example