Character Analysis - On The Road On The Road Sources Sal Paradise The narrator and protagonist of the story, Sal Paradise is a writer who wishes to travel the American continent to seek inspiration for his novels. At first a reserved, shy character, Sal is attracted to the wild character of Dean Moriarty, when they first meet in New York in 1947. Sal sees in Dean the wild, brave persona that he had always wished to have himself, and their friendship would begin three years of relentless traveling on the road all around the country. Sal clearly believes Dean is a hero in the story. Sal is not judgmental towards Dean unlike the rest of the novel's characters. It is because Sal idolizes Dean that he has the heart to forgive Dean's faults and overlook them. Sal envies the madness in others but is unable to replicate it fully in himself, unless he is under the influence of drugs, alcohol, or starvation, and Sal sees this enviable madness in Dean. Sal also loves Terry's brother, Rickey, because he lives in a state of tomorrow, feels no guilt with his poor situation and gets drunk all day. Yet Sal can only withstand living with Rickey for two days until he realizes that he simply can't live in the same way.

Sal visits many cities and measures everything in distance, not time. Sal prioritizes spatial distance over money. Sal always notices people; he is a people person and needs to be around others to feel less lonely. However, his relationships are transient and end in abandonment. Similarly, Sal finds it hard to maintain a longterm relationship with a girl. Sal's sadness perhaps stems from his solitude, which he sees everywhere he goes in places, people, and in America as a whole. Salvatore Paradise's name has a special meaning. Sal spends much time in the novel seeking paradise, but it is never clear what paradise truly means to Sal. Salvatore is also similar to the word Salvation, which means "deliverance of consequences," and it may be for this reason that Sal is more conserved and reasonable than his reckless friend, Dean. Dean Moriarty Dean, the Western hero of the story, is both a pedophile and sexual icon, hero and potential drug addict, criminal and holy guru. Dean is the incredibly flawed hero of the story who abandons those who love him and feel no remorse at his poor judgment and actions. Dean's life is a confused mess.

He runs from one city to the next, one woman to the next, one car to the next, wrecking most of these on the way and feeling the need to move again once he gets to wherever he wants. Dean is lustful for younger girls, and this interest may be the result of the association of these younger girls for youth. However, Dean's madness extends into all his relationships with women. Unable to settle on one woman, Dean bounces around from woman to woman, treating all of them as mere sex tools and disregarding their feelings. Worse, Dean even tries to convince Sal to make love to his beloved ex-wife, Marylou while he watches. Dean's insatiable sex drive is an example of the Beat Generation's dissatisfaction. Dean's name also has a special meaning. Professor Moriarty was Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, and this link may indicate that there is probably something dark about Dean. In fact, this is further hinted at when Sal identifies Dean as the Shrouded traveler that pursues him ceaselessly across the continent. The first name, Dean, is also associated with James Dean of the 1950s, who was a rebellious icon at the time.

He died in a car crash in 1955 and furthermore, the character that Dean is associated with is Neal Cassady, who was an auto thief. Dean has a special connection with time. He uses time to talk to musicians, for to Dean, those who can keep a jazzy beat are Gods. For Dean, heuses time to try to manage his own time, his own life, and his own concern with the passing of time. Dean's progression through the story is also interesting. Dean begins the story as a little crazy, then becomes frantically crazy as he feels the necessity to constantly be on the road, then he becomes a mystic Dean who is quieter and more inclined to listen, for Dean becomes absorbed into his own world, and next, Dean becomes the Shrouded Traveler. Sal realizes Dean is the mad force that follows him around the country; Dean is no longer upheld as an angel on a pedestal and everything about him becomes physical and earthly. Dean is at his craziest at the end of the novel. He has trouble finishing his own sentences and mysteriously appears and then disappears from New York City. He can't explain himself clearly and cheats on his third wife.

Clearly, Dean's travels on the road proved to lead to his ultimate downfall, for he could never full escape the painful problems of his real life. Marylou Marylou is Dean's first wife. She understands Dean and their relationship well. Marylou sees Dean's madness, saying that she loves him dearly yet can't have him because he is too wild for her. Similar to Dean, she is sexually lecherous and sleeps with one man to the next, even lusting after Sal at one point. However, after many break ups and fights with Dean, she ends up marrying an old auto-repairman. Stan shephard Stan comes along with Dean and Sal on their journey to Mexico. He pales, however, in comparison to the story's narrator and flawed hero. He is the important supporter among the three, as he helps readers see the complex relationship between Dean and Sal. Camille Camille is Dean's sexy brunette second wife and the one with whom Dean lives with at the end of the book. Sal remarks that she is Dean's "best-knowing wife" and is glad that Dean ended up with her. However, Camille throws Dean out in many instances throughout the book, although Dean and she have two children together.

Nevertheless, it is apparent that Camille loves Dean. Carlo Marx Carlo Marx is intricately related to the political philosopher who started Marxism, Karl Marx, in the 1800s. Karl Marx claimed that capitalism would be overthrown by socialism and eventually become communism, and Carlo Marx reflects many of these socialist tendencies. Carlo is based on Allen Ginsberg, a friend of Kerouac who was openly gay. Carlo and Dean together define what Sal calls "a new Beat Generation." Carlo's poetry is dark and depressing. Carlo is also the voice of reason in the group and asks for explanations and reasons for Dean and Sal's crazy actions, although they are never able to provide reasons. Bull Lee Bull Lee is appropriately known as the drug addict of Dean and Sal's friends. When Bull Lee enters the story during Sal and Dean's second cross-country trip, he provides an interesting prospective of Dean: Dean is going mad and Sal should leave as soon as he can. The fact that this reasonable advice comes from a drug addict proves how seriously wild Dean is; it also reminds readers that Dean's madness has nothing to do with drugs or alcohol but instead stem from his own mentality, and there is no way out of it.

jane Lee Jane Lee and her relationship with Bull is another example of a love relationship Sal examines. Sal looks for the perfect woman to marry throughout the novel, and although he doesn't truly know what he wants, he views the relationships around him and tries to figure it out. Jane and Bull have a deep and soulful connection and never leave each other's side. The Lees truly have something that Sal envies. On the other hand, Jane demonstrates the negative effects of living a life of drugs and Benzedrine. Her physical beauty decays and she becomes weak. Remi Boncoeur Remi Boncoeur and his girlfriend Lee Ann are the perfect example of what Sal doesn't want in a romantic relationship. Remi is upset seeing Sal's crazy friends, but Remi lives in a world with his own problems--money, women, and lying, etc. Remi steals food and is broke for most of the time Sal is with him, but there is a kinder side to him, as Remi tries to find Sal a job and suggests ideas such as selling Sal's original screenplay for money to improve the lives of the three friends.

Remi has a madness similar to Dean's, and in the end of the novel, Sal has to choose between the two and opts for Remi. Lee Ann Lee Ann is Remi's girlfriend who is extremely concerned with money; in fact, she hesitates to stay with Remi because he is so poor. Yet, she worsens his situation by going out with him on weekends and spending all the money they've earned over the week. Sal is briefly interested in her, but because he wants to remain loyal to Remi, he keeps his distance. Inez Inez is Dean's third wife, who is excited to meet Dean because he is a cowboy. At the end of the novel, she has a child with Dean, but unfortunately, Dean leaves her to live with his second wife, Camille. Unlike Marylou, she refuses to accept Dean cheating on her with Camille in San Francisco. Ed Dunkel Ed Dunkel has an odd, distant relationship with his wife, Galatea, whom he married for road money and abandons often. Ed has many visions and Sal even views him as a saint.

Galatea Dunkel Galatea Dunkel, the wife of Ed Dunkel, is a typical example of a woman getting mistreated but who loves her husband anyway. At first, Sal sees her as a loser, but slowly, Sal recognizes her as a person. He feels sympathy and pity towards her and acknowledges her love towards Ed. These feelings show how mature Sal becomes by the end of the novel. Victor Victor is the Mexican friend that Dean and Sal make in their journey in Mexico and who provides them with women, marijuana, and great fun. He illustrates the way that Dean can make friends with anyone, regardless of differences in race and language. Terry Terry is Sal's girlfriend while he is traveling in the West. Terry had just left her abusive husband and was in need of companionship when she met Sal. Immediately, the two formed a bond of mutual dependence and fear of solitude. They have fun and enjoy each other's company, but in the end, Sal ends up leaving her, and Terry is heartbroken. Roland Major Roland Major doesn't like the rowdiness of Dean and his friends.

He writes Hemingway-esque short stories about the artsy types, whom he despises, yet ironically, he is the one who behaves rudely when Remi's stepfather is in San Francisco. Rickey Ricky is Terry's happy-go-lucky brother and a firm believer of not doing anything today because tomorrow will be a happier, brighter day. He is the proponent of mañana, even though he is extremely poor and lives in filth. Eddie Eddie is the Irish hitchhiker Sal meets in Part One of the novel and who steals Sal's shirt. He demonstrates effectively the transience of friendships formed on the road. Sal's Aunt Sal lives with his aunt when he is at home in New York. Sal's Aunt is depicted as a respectable middle-aged woman who helps Dean and Sal when they are charged with a speeding ticket. She also has an interesting belief system: men must fall on their knees and beg for forgiveness from women in order for there to be peace in the world.

Create a free website Articles about Dean Moriarty - latimes Carolyn Cassady dies at 90; wife of Beat legend Neal Cassady September 24, 2013 | By Elaine Woo If proof was needed that opposites attract, the loves of Carolyn Cassady's life would more than make the case. The daughter of a biochemistry professor and an English teacher with strict, Victorian values, she grew up in the 1940s envisioning a traditional marriage with children and a steady husband to keep them in comfort. What she chose, however, was marriage to Neal Cassady, the fast-talking, hard-living, womanizing wanderer who would be immortalized as Dean Moriarty in "On the Road," Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel that celebrated nonconformity in a rigidly conformist era with its depictions of sexual freedom, drugs and other revelry on the open road. Advertisement Carolyn Cassady dies at 90; wife of Beat legend Neal Cassady September 24, 2013 | By Elaine Woo If proof was needed that opposites attract, the loves of Carolyn Cassady's life would more than make the case.

The daughter of a biochemistry professor and an English teacher with strict, Victorian values, she grew up in the 1940s envisioning a traditional marriage with children and a steady husband to keep them in comfort. What she chose, however, was marriage to Neal Cassady, the fast-talking, hard-living, womanizing wanderer who would be immortalized as Dean Moriarty in "On the Road," Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel that celebrated nonconformity in a rigidly conformist era with its depictions of sexual freedom, drugs and other revelry on the open road. ENTERTAINMENT New releases: 'On the Road' seeks a style both poetic, realistic March 24, 2013 | By Noel Murray On the Road Available on VOD beginning Monday Director Walter Salles, screenwriter José Rivera and producer Francis Ford Coppola have given themselves the almost-impossible task of adapting Jack Kerouac's beloved Beat Generation novel "On the Road," a fictionalized account of Kerouac's late '40s cross-country road trips with his live-wire buddy Neal Cassady.

Salles shoots for a simultaneously poetic and realistic style, similar to that in his art-house hit "The Motorcycle Diaries"; and he has a good cast, with Sam Riley as Kerouac stand-in Sal Paradise, and Garrett Hedlund as the Cassady character, Dean Moriarty. ENTERTAINMENT Kristen Stewart: Age I'm at is 'so full of conviction and passion' July 25, 2012 | By Steven Zeitchik Kristen Stewart acknowledged that she made a mistake by having a fling with married director Rupert Sanders, a real-life indiscretion that complicates, among other things, her life-imitating-art romance with “Twillight” co-star Rob Pattinson. Oddly, the KStew cheating incident has echoes in a non-“Twilight” film in which she recently starred: “On the Road,” in which her character freely explores her sexuality (among other things). In the adaptation of the classic Beat novel, Stewart plays Marylou, the teenage wife of Dean Moriarty and part of a group for whom monogamy is, well, not exactly a way of life.

ENTERTAINMENT Kristen Stewart's 'On the Road' heading back to theaters March 6, 2013 | By Steven Zeitchik and Amy Kaufman Even casual media consumers probably were aware of "On the Road," Walter Salles' adaptation of the Jack Kerouac novel starring Kristen Stewart, in December. That month, Stewart appeared on numerous TV programs, including "The Daily Show" and "The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson," talking up her role in the film as the free spirit Marylou, while also touting the movie in appearances for "Breaking Dawn: Part 2. " Garrett Hedlund, who plays... ENTERTAINMENT Cannes Film Festival: Walter Salles' journey to 'On the Road' May 23, 2012 | By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic CANNES, France - Walter Salles carefully raises the fingers of his right hand and gently strokes the back of his left. "These are characters," he says, explaining the gesture, "who experience things not vicariously but on the flesh. Men and women in a quest for something they couldn't define yet, who are trying to amplify their knowledge of the world.

" More than half a century after "On the Road" was published, 30-plus years since Francis Ford Coppola bought the rights in 1978, and nearly a decade after Salles began working on the film, Jack Kerouac's peerless anthem to the romance of youthful freedom and experience has finally made it to the screen with its virtues and spirit intact. ENTERTAINMENT New releases: 'On the Road' seeks a style both poetic, realistic March 24, 2013 | By Noel Murray On the Road Available on VOD beginning Monday Director Walter Salles, screenwriter José Rivera and producer Francis Ford Coppola have given themselves the almost-impossible task of adapting Jack Kerouac's beloved Beat Generation novel "On the Road," a fictionalized account of Kerouac's late '40s cross-country road trips with his live-wire buddy Neal Cassady. Salles shoots for a simultaneously poetic and realistic style, similar to that in his art-house hit "The Motorcycle Diaries"; and he has a good cast, with Sam Riley as Kerouac stand-in Sal Paradise, and Garrett Hedlund as the Cassady character, Dean Moriarty.

ENTERTAINMENT The Hudson and 'On the Road' are finally in gear December 8, 2012 | By Rebecca Keegan, Los Angeles Times From inside the rocket-shaped time capsule of a silver 1949 Hudson Super Six, West Hollywood looked astonishingly modern to Brazilian director Walter Salles. Salles, who has devoted the last eight years to adapting Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" for the screen, rode past men holding hands on Santa Monica Boulevard, past the green neon signs of shops selling medicinal marijuana, past a Starbucks - and another Starbucks - and another Starbucks. It was a streetscape that would have been unimaginable in Kerouac's time - both in the freedoms of the passersby and the homogeneity of the businesses. ENTERTAINMENT Critic's Notebook: Jack Kerouac's early 'The Sea Is My Brother' grounded in 2 sides of writer March 25, 2012 | By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic First the good news: Jack Kerouac's "lost" novel "The Sea Is My Brother" (Da Capo: 216 pp., $23) isn't entirely unreadable.

In fact, the book - written in 1943 when the author was 21 - is pretty good as far as Kerouac juvenilia goes. That's not saying much; his "Orpheus Emerged," completed two years after "The Sea Is My Brother" and published in 2000 as an early generation e-book, is one of the worst pieces of narrative prose I've ever read. This is a conundrum when it comes to literary estates, perhaps none more so than Kerouac's. ENTERTAINMENT Kristen Stewart's 'On the Road' heading back to theaters March 6, 2013 | By Steven Zeitchik and Amy Kaufman Even casual media consumers probably were aware of "On the Road," Walter Salles' adaptation of the Jack Kerouac novel starring Kristen Stewart, in December. That month, Stewart appeared on numerous TV programs, including "The Daily Show" and "The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson," talking up her role in the film as the free spirit Marylou, while also touting the movie in appearances for "Breaking Dawn: Part 2. " Garrett Hedlund, who plays...

ENTERTAINMENT 'On the Road' toward mortality: A critic ponders Jack Kerouac December 27, 2012 | By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic Time is a key element in Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road. " "We know time," the protagonist Dean Moriarty (based on Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady) mutters throughout the book, an invocation and a prayer. That's important for a couple of reasons: It signals the novel's hunger for new experience, for a way out of the conformist pieties of post-World War II America, and also Kerouac's desire to stare down the mortality that he feared. In some sense, this is the key to all his writing, the idea that by mythologizing his life and that of his friends he was somehow placing them all outside of time. ENTERTAINMENT The Hudson and 'On the Road' are finally in gear December 8, 2012 | By Rebecca Keegan, Los Angeles Times From inside the rocket-shaped time capsule of a silver 1949 Hudson Super Six, West Hollywood looked astonishingly modern to Brazilian director Walter Salles.

Salles, who has devoted the last eight years to adapting Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" for the screen, rode past men holding hands on Santa Monica Boulevard, past the green neon signs of shops selling medicinal marijuana, past a Starbucks - and another Starbucks - and another Starbucks. It was a streetscape that would have been unimaginable in Kerouac's time - both in the freedoms of the passersby and the homogeneity of the businesses. ENTERTAINMENT Kristen Stewart: Age I'm at is 'so full of conviction and passion' July 25, 2012 | By Steven Zeitchik Kristen Stewart acknowledged that she made a mistake by having a fling with married director Rupert Sanders, a real-life indiscretion that complicates, among other things, her life-imitating-art romance with “Twillight” co-star Rob Pattinson. Oddly, the KStew cheating incident has echoes in a non-“Twilight” film in which she recently starred: “On the Road,” in which her character freely explores her sexuality (among other things).

In the adaptation of the classic Beat novel, Stewart plays Marylou, the teenage wife of Dean Moriarty and part of a group for whom monogamy is, well, not exactly a way of life. ENTERTAINMENT Cannes Film Festival: Walter Salles' journey to 'On the Road' May 23, 2012 | By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic CANNES, France - Walter Salles carefully raises the fingers of his right hand and gently strokes the back of his left. "These are characters," he says, explaining the gesture, "who experience things not vicariously but on the flesh. Men and women in a quest for something they couldn't define yet, who are trying to amplify their knowledge of the world. " More than half a century after "On the Road" was published, 30-plus years since Francis Ford Coppola bought the rights in 1978, and nearly a decade after Salles began working on the film, Jack Kerouac's peerless anthem to the romance of youthful freedom and experience has finally made it to the screen with its virtues and spirit intact.

ENTERTAINMENT Critic's Notebook: Jack Kerouac's early 'The Sea Is My Brother' grounded in 2 sides of writer March 25, 2012 | By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic First the good news: Jack Kerouac's "lost" novel "The Sea Is My Brother" (Da Capo: 216 pp., $23) isn't entirely unreadable. In fact, the book - written in 1943 when the author was 21 - is pretty good as far as Kerouac juvenilia goes. That's not saying much; his "Orpheus Emerged," completed two years after "The Sea Is My Brother" and published in 2000 as an early generation e-book, is one of the worst pieces of narrative prose I've ever read. This is a conundrum when it comes to literary estates, perhaps none more so than Kerouac's.

ENTERTAINMENT I wish I could meet ..., the literary edition February 19, 2013 | By Carolyn Kellogg A quick perusal of the popular hashtag #IWishICouldMeet on Twitter led to a couple of conclusions. First, more than anything, people want to meet Justin Bieber, although Jesus is a close second. And a lot of people would like to be able to be another person meeting themselves, or their true love, whoever that might be. There didn't seem to be many bookish figures in the mix, so Tuesday morning we asked people on Twitter what authors or fictional characters they'd like to meet. A pair of Jane Austen's characters immediately jumped to the top of the list - Elizabeth Bennet and her dreamy Mr. Darcy just about tied. Dean Moriarty in On the Road Character Analysis Dean the Icon Oh, Dean, where do we start? To Sal you are "angel" and "devil," "Shrouded Traveler," "Holy Goof," "saint," "God," "Angel of Terror," "Soul of Beat," "con-man," and countless others. You are somehow both a pedophile and sexual icon, hero and potential drug addict, criminal and holy guru.

Men want to be you, women want to sleep with you. As you might have noticed in Sal’s "Character Analysis," Dean features prominently as a hero. An incredibly flawed hero who tends to abandon those who love him and feel no remorse whatsoever at his poor judgment and horribly timed actions. But a hero nonetheless. Part of why we don’t hate Dean for his actions is that we feel sorry for him. Dean’s a mess. He doesn’t recognize that he’s a mess, and that makes him even more of a mess. He’s running around from one city to the next, one woman to the next, one car to the next, wrecking most of these on the way and feeling the need to move again once he gets to wherever he thought he wanted to be. That qualifies as a mess, as far we we’re concerned. Dean and Sex Dean gets a lot of flack for being attracted to pre-pubescent girls. Along with pubescent girls, older teenagers, and women his own age. Sal makes excuses for this, blaming Dean's time in jail for his sexual depravity.

Dean's interest in young girls might even be the result of misplaced love for youth (see "Symbols, Imagery, Allegory" for more on this topic). But no matter what the cause, this attraction features prominently as a main facet of Dean’s madness. However, Dean's madness isn’t limited to lusting after young girls – it finds its way into all his relationships with women. Dean’s Beat restlessness extends into his love life. Unable to settle on one woman, Dean tries to have all of these women at the same time. What’s even crazier is that most of the women comply. And when that isn’t enough, he even tries to get Sal to have sex with Marylou while he watches. Dean’s insatiable sexual appetite is just one example of Beat Generation dissatisfaction. The only place Dean holds back sexually is when it comes to gay men; perhaps because Carlo’s advances on Dean are implicit, Dean never directly has to reject him in the text. But he doesn’t encourage Carlo, either. When Dean does seem willing to have anal sex with a man, Sal explains that he does so only for money. What is clear is that for Dean, sex can be the manifestation of a mad desire – or simply a business arrangement.

Dean’s Name Dean Moriarty. Let’s see: Professor Moriarty was Sherlock Holmes’ nemesis. An enemy’s name is an interesting choice for Sal's hero, which means there may be something dark about Dean. Flags go up when Sal identifies Dean as the Shrouded Traveler that pursues him ceaselessly across the continent. Then there’s his fist name: Dean. On the Road was written in the 1950s, right around the time James Dean was a sexy, rebellious icon. He died in a car crash in 1955, two years before the book was published. Plus the character that Dean is based on, Neal Cassady (check out "Brain Snacks"), was an auto thief. Oooh, this is fun. Dean and Time and God Dean has this thing about time. He’s either talking about it, or trying to know it, or finding people that do know it. What does "knowing time" mean exactly? In a very literal sense, Dean uses it to talk about musicians. If they can keep a beat, they know time. They are also, apparently, God. Dean says of both Slim Gaillard and George Shearing that they know time and that they are God.

Why are the two related? Well you might have to look at what "knowing time" means in a slightly different way. At a very simple level, sure, "knowing time" can refer to music. But Dean isn’t blowing a horn when he says he knows time. He’s trying to manage his own time, his own life, and his own frantic concern with the passing of time. This concern and understanding of time evolves along with his madness, and we were most interested when Dean shows up in Denver with a pocket watch permanently affixed to his outfit. He switches outfits, so he has to switch the watch. He can’t be without it. When he arrives in Mexico, he trades the watch for a rock crystal. Doesn't he need it anymore? Did he find something in Mexico that’s more important than his obsession with time? Dean and Madness What’s interesting, if you’re into this sort of thing, is to look at Dean’s progression throughout the story. He starts off a little crazy, but nothing that we (or, more importantly, Sal) can’t handle. Sal even says that they "understood each other on other levels of madness." Then we get to the frantic Dean-madness.

Dean feels the need to talk – all the time – at people and without much allowance for listening to the other person's response. This is where the motion business kicks in a little more – he’s got to go, go, go. Sal recognizes this change, and all of Dean’s changes, which tends to happen when you place your idol under obsessively intense scrutiny. Next we’re at "mysticism" Dean, which is a deceptive stage of his madness that may appear at first glance to be normal. Do not be fooled – objects in text are madder than they appear. Dean is quieter and more inclined to listen, absorbing from the world instead of outputting at a dizzying rate. Where does the madness factor in? There’s a lot of talk about time and God, and this mysterious IT business surfaces (check out "Symbols, Imagery, Allegory" for more on IT). Dean is in his own world. Next we arrive at The Shrouded Traveler stage. Sal identifies Dean as the mad force that follows him across the country. Then he describes him as a full-blown angel. Dean has come down off his saintly cloud and had his nose in it on the ground.

Everything about him has become visceral and physical, from his sexual lust to his mad driving to his physical actions (his belly-rubbing and lip-licking). Dean is hungry for the world, and he’s not waiting for everyone at the table to be served before he digs in. This hunger drives him down into Mexico and back up to New York. He’s hitting a full ten on the scale. Dean is legitimately off the charts by the end of the book. He has trouble finishing sentences. He mysteriously appears in New York and then rapidly leaves again. He can’t explain himself and mutters on about time. Did he fulfill Bull’s prophecy of full-blown psychosis "with a dash of violence"? Maybe. Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac s on the Road Essay - 942 Words Jack Kerouac s On The Road Essay ...Literatura Norteamericana VI 16/04/08 An analysis on the way in which Jack Kerouac’s On the Road gives voice to a new social attitude Jack Kerouac’s On the Road became a book which redefined an entire generation.

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The Beat movement has emerged in the American literature since 1950 and it has become one of the most influential and one of the cultural phenomena till now. The founders of the Beat generation are mainly three writers - Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs. When there is discussion about Beat generation it has to make a mention of the word "beat" itself because it has quite interesting origins. Kerouac is "the King of the Beats. He who is the most popular writer to the Beat generation and is well known as a speaker and broadcaster to that union of beat writers has an interesting biography and in 1957 his novel On the Road appeals to the reading audience and represents people`s excitement and eagerness.". The novel excites many people due to the freedom to travel, to dream, to discover, to hang out. Furthermore the novel concerns bohemian`s life, sexual liberation and drug experience. Some writers emphasize that it is not a real generation although there is an effective movement in American literature after the World War II. At the late 1930s, Fitzgerald said that: "By a generation I mean that reaction against the fathers which seems to occur about three times in a century.

It is distinguished by a set of ideas inherited in modified form from the madmen and the outlaws of generation before; if it is a real generation it has its own leaders and spokesmen, and it draws into its orbit those born just before it and just after, whose ideas are clear-cut and defiant. " [ 1 ] There is no disagreement that there has been a phenomenon known as the Beat Generation writers Despite Fitzgerald's words. The movement to these writers which became known as the Beat is one of the most influential movements in American literature. At the same time when it appeared in American literature there were certain historic events that contributed to its emergence: World War II and America having dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; political ramifications of the ensuing Cold War; the wave of anti-communist hysteria in the United States (Charters, 1992, p. XVI). Danova affirms that The Beat movement consists of writers such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, Neal Cassady only, with the later addition of Gregory Gorso and Peter Orlovsky (2002, p. 149).

However, the term also includes most of the innovative poets such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michel McClure, Gary Snyder and others (2002, p. 149). Jack Kerouac wrote a letter to Allen Ginsberg, and explained the reason to create such a group or union of these writers. He remarked that they mainly shared and confessed their own feelings and views and submitted their lives and interactions. Danova (2002, p. 150) identifies that the word "beat" comes from circus - the carnival reflected the strained circumstances of the lives of the circus artists. In the drug world it meant "robbed" or "cheated" (2002, p. 150). The word was used as a slang term meaning down and out or poor and exhausted by jazz musicians and hustlers after 1950. According to Danova Kerouac is only person, who could feel the beatitude in "jazz, in real cool jazz" (2002, p. 151). Herbert Huncke used the word "beat" for the first time. He represented it to Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac.

Later, Kerouac told his friend John Clellon Holmes "It`s a kind of furtivenessâ€¦Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledgeâ€¦a kind of beatnessâ€¦So I guess you might say we`re a beat generation". Holmes published an article for the New York Times Magazine in 1952 which is entitled "This is the Beat Generation". Later, the word was used as a synonym for the young person, who lives as a bohemian and a rebel. Kerouac named those person "hipster" or "beatster". The "Beat" loosed its meaning to a particular subculture. [ 2 ] When it analyzes such writer as Kerouac it should be noted his biography and his works. Some critics viewed Kerouac's name as related to what was going on in American life in the 50s and 60s. With his fourth novel Kerouac captivated and intrigued many people Critics explained and discussed in a sufficient number of books life on the road. Writers and critics commented on main hero Dean`s words "I dig life".

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts on 12th March 1922 and died on 21st October 1969. His father and his mother were French - Canadian. They lived in Quebec in Canada. Kerouac`s mother had very important influence in his life. Jack was keen on football and he earned a scholarship from Columbia University. When he was at Columbia University wrote some articles for students` newspapers. He left the university, but he stayed in New York with Edie Parker his girlfriend. There he met some people like Ginsberg and Cassady and others, who were related with his novels and characters and could been seen throughout his later works. Kerouac wrote his first novel The Town and the City and began writing the famous On the Road around 1949. Kerouac wrote a lot of things - notebooks and letters to friends and family. His letters were long and filled with descriptions of his daily life and thoughts. Before he became a writer he had different jobs and careers - a sports reporter, a temporary construction, food service worker and a sailor in the military. When it talks about Kerouac`s works it should say something about his novels.

Kerouac famous novels are On the Road (1957), The Dharma Bums (1958), The Subterraneans (1958), Maggie Cassidy (1959), Tristessa (1960), Vision of Cody (1960), Big Star (1962), Desolation Angels (1965), Vanity Duluoz (1968), and PIC (1970). Kerouac`s notable novel is On the Road. This novel is a stirring and spectacular autobiographical book in which the author exactly and clearly with a flowing irony advocates the main views of the Beat generation. The novel tells about incessant trips of Kerouac and his friends - others "beat" authors across America. The book criticizes government policy against individual personality and loyal and fair communication and affects the human distrust for authority. The novel freely emphasizes on sexual liberation and drug experimentation. The plot begins with one opening paragraph statement that is: "with the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life you could call my life on the road." There are Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty - two young men, who travel madly and frantically across the American continent.

These two characters circle the streets and they are on a mad trip, driving around the country. They do not depend on places and relatives. The narrator is Salvatore Paradise, who is actually Kerouac. The other beat writer and friend to Kerouac is another main character Neal Cassady - Dean Moriarty. Kerouac considers the idea of humanity, jazz music, women and his friends and the remarkable landscapes of the United State. In the beginning Sal talks about "miserably weary split up" with his wife, and a "serious illness". When read the novel it can be seen Kerouac's own life in the late 1940s. In the text it is visible that author is fascinated by the charm of the Neal Cassady. Every single episode shows events from the real life. Some authors commented the theme and the style of the novel. Danova explained that the main theme of the book became Moriarty`s search for his father related along with the search for God.

However, it can argue on this issue because the main character is Sal and his views about life and his friend MoriartyIt has been asserted that thus characters become part of a pilgrim tradition "which starts with Chaucer and is transformed into a post-war Huck Finn". Danova views the whole novel as an experimentation with Kerouac`s own style (Danova, 2002, p. 155). First he begins with an imitation style of writer Thomas Wolfe. Second Kerouac continues with the style to other beat writers, which is more joyful and full of musical elements from jazz improvisations. This style of his best suits the search for truth and identity of the main character, Sal Paradise (Danova 2002, p. 154-155). Finally it could say that the style is complex and experimental. According to another critic, Freeman Champney (1959, p. 114 - 121) in the novel there was plenty of speed, alcohol, sex and marijuana. Champney criticized the whole novel. Young characters were children who hated everything. They were spoiled and rejected the consumer society. Champney remarks that Kerouac argues with American culture.

The life of the middle class is meaningless and stupid. People should live more spontaneous and free lives (1959, p. 114 - 121). Jack Kerouac said "I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of My Youth and the West of my futureâ€¦.LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets god-awful cold in the winter but there`s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle" [ 3 ] . Sal communicates with many people in the West but he dislikes these places. Finally Sal Paradise understands that probably the East is "a better place for him and that is why he returns" (Danova, 2002, p. 155). His search stopped and Sal decided to stay and establish to the East. Edmund White said that "Beginning in the late 1940s, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat". Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile.

Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy." [ 4 ] In 1957 Jack Kerouac`s beat generation novel On the Road shocked readers. Many critics condemned Kerouac points of view about free life and immorality of the American young people. Despite criticism today there no disagreement that On the Road is very important, beautiful and influential novel in the American literature. The novel represents the bohemian lifestyle of the characters, the real life and the idea of humanity, sexual liberation and drug experience, jazz music and women. This beat generation novel is about lost souls who dared to feel and to be free. The whole novel is an experimentation with Kerouac`s own style and represents views and research to the young people after the World War II. On the Road is the best beat generation and Jack Kerouac`s novel and it is a bestseller - the book of the Beat generation. SparkNotes: On the Road: Characters On the Road Part I, Chapters 1-2 Sal Paradise - The narrator, a young writer. Dean Moriarty - The hero, a reckless, energetic, womanizing young man from Colorado who has been in and out of jail.

Carlo Marx - A good friend of Sal and Dean's, a brooding poet who is sensual and energetic. Marylou - Dean's first wife, a pretty "dumb" blonde from Colorado. Ed Dunkel - A tall, affable friend of Sal and Dean's. Not too bright, he'll do anything Dean says. Galatea Dunkel - Ed Dunkel's serious, disapproving newlywed wife. Remi Boncoeur - An old friend of Sal's from prep school. Remi, a flamboyant Frenchman, is a petty thief and gambler, constantly in debt but extravagant and sometimes gallant and generous. Lee Ann - Remi Boncoeur's sulky girlfriend. Sal's aunt - She is tolerant, supportive, and kind. Sal lives at her house in Paterson, New Jersey, and Long Island. Throughout Sal's wanderings, she sends him money. Chad King - Sal's friend from Denver; young, slim, blond and soft-spoken. He is interested in philosophy, anthropology, and pre-historic Indians. Tim Gray - A friend of Sal's in Denver. Roland Major - A friend with whom Sal lives briefly in Denver.

Major is a Hemingway-esque writer who is scornful of "arty" types but snobby himself, often talking to Sal about Europe and fine wines. Camille - Dean's second wife, for whom he divorces Marylou. Loyal Camille lives in San Francisco with her and Dean's children. The Rawlinses - Ray and Babe, brother and sister, Denver friends of Sal's group. Babe, "an enterprising blonde," is Tim Gray's girlfriend. Rita Bettencourt - A waitress in Denver whom Dean sets up with Sal. According to Dean, she has a "sex problem." Sal tries to prove to her that sex is beautiful, but he fails to impress her. Old Bull Lee - "Long, lean, strange and laconic," a long-time friend of Sal and Carlo, the teacher of their group. A traveler, writer, and junkie. Elmer Hassel - A lost friend whom Sal and Dean seek everywhere they go. Jane Lee - Bull Lee's sarcastic wife, a benzedrine junkie. Lucille - A married woman in New York whom Sal wants to marry for awhile. Denver D. Doll - A Central City friend, whom Sal sees all over town.

Eager Denver D. Doll shakes hands and makes sometimes-incoherent pleasantries ("Good afternoon" at midnight, "Happy New Year," etc.)--from morning to night, a caricature of an official. Terry - A pretty Mexican girl with whom Sal spends fifteen days in California. She comes from a family of grape-pickers in Sabinal, has a son, and is trying to escape a husband who beat her. Rickey - Terry's wild, drunk, happy-go-lucky brother whom Sal meets in Sabinal. Ponzo - Terry and Rickey's friend, a manure-seller who smells like it. Big and eager to please, Ponzo is in love with Terry. Johnny - Terry's seven-year-old son. Hingham - Sal's friend in Tucson, Arizona; a shy writer who lives with his wife, baby, and mother. Slim Gaillard - A friend of Dean's in San Francisco, Slim goes to jazz joints and adds the suffix "orooni" to everything he says. Roy Johnson - A friend of Sal's who chauffeurs Dean and Sal in San Francisco.. Inez - Dean's third wife, a sexy brunette he meets in New York.

Stan Shephard - An enthusiastic friend of Tim Gray's who goes to Mexico with Dean and Sal. Stan has a controlling grandfather he is trying to escape. Victor - The kind, polite Mexican man; Sal, Dean, and Stan's guide in Gregoria. More Help Who’s Who: A Guide to Kerouac’s Characters Who’s Who: A Guide to Kerouac’s Characters This originally appeared in Issue Three, which is no longer available. Find other issues of Beatdom here . Anyone who knows anything about the Beat Generation knows that while Ginsberg may have been the movement’s publicist, Kerouac was its archivist. Yet his books are called novels, not autobiographies or non-fiction texts. We can pretty much go through each one of Kerouac’s books and find other sources to verify the accuracy of an event, but all the names, and some of the places, are fictitious. These pseudonyms fool no one, however, and are deliberately transparent. Writing in dangerous times, Kerouac’s publishers demanded he change names to avoid lawsuits and prosecution, and given the furor surrounding ‘Howl’ and Naked Lunch, it’s probably for the best that he did.

But nowadays we are surrounded by books, websites, and documentaries about the Beat Generation, and anyone that takes an interest is soon provided with a view of the players in the movement. Their personalities were all unique, and after learning a few key facts, we can take a look at Kerouac’s novels again and remove the masks, revealing the true participants in the fables of the Beat Generation. Alan Ansen Bio: Ansen was big influence on several of the Beats. He was never well know outwith the Beat circle, but he made an impact on Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg and Corso. He appeared in both On the Road and Naked Lunch. Aliases: Book of Dreams – Irwin Swenson On the Road – Rollo Greb The Subterraneans – Austin Bromberg William S. Burroughs Bio: Burroughs should need no brief biography printed on the pages of Beatdom. If you are reading this, then you know his story and his work. If you don’t, then no few lines is enough – buy his books and books about him.

Aliases: Book of Dreams – Bull Hubbard Desolation Angels – Bull Hubbard On the Road – Old Bull Lee The Subterraneans – Frank Carmody The Town and the City – Will Dennison Vanity of Duluoz – Will Hubbard Real Name: Bill Cannastra Bio: In his short life, Cannastra made a big impression upon the early Beat Generation. He was a wild man like Neal Cassady, and celebrated as such. He appears in several Ginsberg poems and in two Kerouac books. Aliases: Lucien Carr Bio: Carr was central to the Beat movement. He was the embodiment of Beat – intelligent yet wild, well read but crazy. He introduced Kerouac and Ginsberg. “Lou was the glue,” Ginsberg quipped. He killed David Kammerer and sought refuge with Burroughs and Kerouac. Aliases: Book of Dreams – Julian Love On The Road – Damion The Town and the City – Kenneth Wood Vanity of Duluoz – Claude de Maubris Real Name: Carolyn Cassady Bio: She was the wife of Neal Cassady and friends with Ginsberg and Kerouac. Cassady married the Holy Goof even after finding him in bed with Ginsberg and his first wife.

She was immortalised in On the Road, and wrote her own memoirs, called Off the Road. Aliases: Son of Neal and Carolyn Cassady. Named after Kerouac and Ginsberg. Aliases: Big Sur – Timmy John Pomeray Visions of Cody – Timmy Pomeray Real Name: Neal Cassady Bio: Cassady perhaps the only person on this list more famous for his most noted alias – Dean Moriarty. The legendary Holy Goof inspired so much of the Beat movement and literature, despite having no famous literary output of his own. He was Ginsberg’s lover and ‘secret hero of these poems’. Aliases: Book of Dreams – Cody Pomeray Desolation Angels – Cody Pomeray The Dharma Bums – Cody Pomeray The Subterraneans – Leroy On the Road – Dean Moriarty Visions of Cody – Cody Pomeray Real Name: Doctor Sax – Catherine “Nin” Duluoz Maggie Cassidy – Nin Gerard Kerouac Bio: Gerard Kerouac died at the age of nine. He was Jack’s older brother, and a figure that Jack always felt incapable of matching.

He was revered as a saint by nuns, and throughout his whole life, Kerouac never stopped thinking about his brother. Aliases: The Town and the City – Julian Martin Visions of Gerard – Gerard Duluoz Real Name: Gabrielle Kerouac Bio: Kerouac’s mother. She remained a huge influence on his life, living with him for much of his adulthood. Her harsh Catholic worldview marked her son with a constant guilt about life. She seems an altogether unpleasant figure, and outlived her own son. Aliases: On the Road – Sal’s Aunt The Town and the City – Marguerite Martin Vanity of Duluoz – Ange Jack Kerouac Bio: There are dozens of books out there about Kerouac, and his novels are effectively one giant autobiography, so again, I’m going to miss out on a short bio.

Aliases: Book of Dreams – Jack Duluoz Desolation Angels – Jack Duluoz The Dharma Bums – Ray Smith Maggie Cassidy – Jack Duluoz On the Road – Sal Paradise Satori in Paris – Jack Duluoz The Subterraneans – Leo Percepied The Town and the City – Peter Martin Tristessa – Jack Duluoz The Vanity of Duluoz – Jack Duluoz Visions of Cody – Jack Duluoz Visions of Gerard – Jack Duluoz Real Name: Leo Kerouac Bio: Kerouac’s father died in 1946, and shortly after this, Kerouac sat down and wrote The Town & The City. He promised his dying father that he would always look after his mother. Aliases: Doctor Sax – Emil “Pop” Duluoz Maggie Cassidy – Emil “Pop” Duluoz The Town and the City – George Martin Vanity of Duluoz – Emil “Pop” Duluoz Visions of Gerard – Emil “Pop” Duluoz Real Name: Philip Lamantia Bio: One of the poets who read at the legendary Six Galley Reading 1955, Lamantia chose to read poems by a dead friend.

Lamantia was involved in movements before and after the Beat Generation. Aliases: Desolation Angels – David D’Angeli The Dharma Bums – Francis DaPavia Tristessa – Francis DaPavia John McVey Montgomery Bio: Although Montgomery appears as a clownish character, he was an editor and publisher of Kerouac’s books. Aliases: The Dharma Bums – Henry Morley Real Name: Jerry Newman Bio: One of the circle of friends that made up ‘the Subterraneans’, Newman was a record producer and store owner in New York’s Village. Aliases: Book of Dreams – Danny Richman The Subterraneans – Larry O’Hara Visions of Cody – Danny Richman Real Name: Peter Orlovsky Bio: Orlovsky is most famous as Ginsberg’s long time lover, but was also a poet in his own right (at least after Ginsberg’s provocation). He travelled the world and in 1974, joined the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute, teaching poetry.

Aliases: Book of Dreams – Simon Darlovsky Desolation Angels – Simon Darlovsky Edie Parker Bio: Parker was Kerouac’s first wife, if only for a short time and for strange reasons. They married more or less to get Kerouac out of jail, and split soon after. Parker also shared a flat with Joan Vollmer, that was frequented by many of the Beats in the early days of the movement. Aliases: The Town and the City – Judie Smith Visions of Cody – Elly Vanity of Duluoz – Edna “Johnnie” Palmer Real Name: Kenneth Rexroth Bio: Time Magazine mistakenly labelled Rexroth ‘father of the Beats’, much to the poet’s chagrin. However, one could forgive their error: Ferlinghetti considers Rexroth his mentor; the poet MC’d the Six Gallery Reading; he introduced Ginsberg to Snyder; he spoke in formal defence at Ginsberg’s obscenity trial… Aliases: The Dharma Bums – Rheinhold Cacoethes Real Name: Gary Snyder Bio: Ferlinghetti labelled Snyder ‘the Thoreau of the Beat Generation’, and the description seems fair.

He was the only Beat from an urban background, and with little passion for the town. He was to The Dharma Bums what Dean Moriarty was to On the Road. Aliases: The Dharma Bums – Japhy Ryder Real Name: Allen Temko Bio: Temko was an architectural critic and writer, who was portrayed in On the Road as against ‘arty’ snobs, but essential snobbish himself. Aliases: Book of Dreams – Irving Minko On the Road – Roland Major Visions of Cody – Allen Minko Real Name: Gore Vidal Bio: The famous novelist had a homosexual relationship with Kerouac that was altered into a platonic night together for The Subterraneans. According to Norman Mailer, Vidal ‘ruined’ Kerouac by sleeping with him. Aliases: On the Road – and the Beat Goes On | Jessica Fisher Willson - April 7, 2013 […] Sal Paradise (Jack Kerouac) is played by Sam Riley, the English actor who isn’t quite as physical as Jack Kerouac probably was, given that Kerouac went to college on a football scholarship, but comes off as the friendly, sometimes brooding, observer.

Dean Moriarty, brilliantly cast and played by Garrett Hedlund, is a manly, sexy, bisexual Neal Cassady, and Mary Lou, Moriarty’s teenage first wife, a.k.a. Luanne Henderson, is well played by Kristen Stewart. Moriarty’s second wife, Camille, a.k.a. Carolyn Cassady (who wrote the famed “Off the Road”) is played by Kristen Dunst with appropriate anguish and longing for Dean to settle down. Carlo Marx a.k.a. Allen Ginsberg is played with exuberance and angst by Tom Sturridge, and the love scenes with Hedlund are sweet. “The legendary Holy Goof (Neal Cassady) inspired so much of the Beat movement and literature, despite having no famous literary output of his own.

He was Ginsberg’s lover and ‘secret hero of these poems’.” (quote: ) […] On the Road Movie Review | Virago Magazine - April 8, 2013 […] Sal Paradise (Jack Kerouac) is played by Sam Riley, the English actor who isn’t quite as physical as Jack Kerouac probably was, given that Kerouac went to college on a football scholarship, but comes off as the friendly, sometimes brooding, observer. Dean Moriarty, brilliantly cast and played by Garrett Hedlund, is a manly, sexy, bisexual Neal Cassady, and Mary Lou, Moriarty’s teenage first wife, a.k.a. Luanne Henderson, is well played by Kristen Stewart. Moriarty’s second wife, Camille, a.k.a. Carolyn Cassady (who wrote the famed “Off the Road”) is played by Kristen Dunst with appropriate anguish and longing for Dean to settle down. Carlo Marx a.k.a. Allen Ginsberg is played with exuberance and angst by Tom Sturridge, and the love scenes with Hedlund are sweet.

“The legendary Holy Goof (Neal Cassady) inspired so much of the Beat movement and literature, despite having no famous literary output of his own. He was Ginsberg’s lover and ‘secret hero of these poems’.” (quote: ) […] On the Road Essay | Finding “Beat” in On the Road | GradeSaver On the Road Finding "Beat" in On the Road Cammyle Alexandria Banks In Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, the introduction of Dean Moriarty and the paradoxical themes of the Eastern and Western “road” to the character Sal Paradise incur dissension in Sal’s evolution. Sal ultimately chooses to return to the East and its standard of living, establishing Sal, not Dean, as the true hero of the novel. The character’s cross- country misadventures allow Sal to develop his sociological proclivity and gain a new and worldlier outlook on spirituality. American, frontier-style bohemianism Buddhist ideology that takes the form of “IT” provides an irresistible catalyst to the characters. These liberties, however, come at a heavy price when he recognizes the potential destruction that the road’s enticements create.

Dean uses and abandons the people around him, and his quest for “IT” is wrought with fallacy. The implications of his abandonment of responsibilities finally estrange him from Sal and many others besides. Nevertheless, the security of Sal’s Eastern lifestyle time and again finds itself at odds with the seductiveness of the West, the “road” itself most notably symbolized in the character of Dean Moriarty whose fate placed him in a situation to exploit this freedom. Sal, born out East and living with his... Join Now to View Premium Content GradeSaver provides access to 748 study guide PDFs and quizzes, 4609 literature essays, 1464 sample college application essays, 183 lesson plans, and ad-free surfing in this premium content, “Members Only” section of the site! Membership includes a 10% discount on all editing orders. Featured Articles about Dean Moriarty - Page 2 - latimes FEATURED ARTICLES ABOUT DEAN MORIARTY - PAGE 2 NEWS New 'On the Road' trailer [video] August 31, 2012 | by Carolyn Kellogg The holiday weekend is crashing down upon us.

It's time to swallow the last bit of summer before serious fall kicks in. OK, here in Los Angeles we don't really have to worry about fall, but it's the idea of the thing. Kids are in school and all that. Gas in Los Angeles is averaging $4.16 a gallon, but will that stop us from jumping in our cars to get out of town one last whirlwind? I doubt it. I'm going. To speed us along our way, here is a brand-new trailer for the movie version of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road. Advertisement Kristen Stewart barefoot and headstrong at 'On The Road' September 7, 2012 | By Mark Olsen When Kristen Stewart emerged from a large black car Thursday night in front of Toronto's Ryerson Theatre for the North American premiere of her new movie, "On the Road," the big-screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac's classic Beat generation novel, flashbulbs popped, cellphones were raised, and then, in a moment of silence, one sound landed with a crashing thud. A single boo.

It was an instant -- yet the seemingly only-- acknowledgment of the actress' recent role in the tabloids, where she's been a near constant fixture since news broke of a late-summer cheating scandal involving Stewart and filmmaker Rupert Sanders. NEWS Mapping Out a Route for the Mind's Eye January 26, 1999 Question from Jan. 19: The L.A. Louver gallery in Venice is hosting an event titled "One Hour / One Painting," during which participants spend one hour looking at one piece of art. We'd like to offer this event in miniaturized form, using David Hockney's piece as a Rorschach test. In the photo collage, a road runs through the desert and signs indicate that up ahead is a stop as well as Highway 138 (Pearblossom Highway). Aside from what's really there, what else do you see? ENTERTAINMENT Review: 'On the Road' is achingly romantic December 20, 2012 | By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic There are as many visions of "On the Road," novelist Jack Kerouac's vivid anthem to the romance of youthful freedom and the getting of experience as there are readers.

It's a book so influential yet so personal that each succeeding generation since its 1957 publication has picked it up and simply said, as one of its protagonists does, "Oh yes, oh yes, that's the way it goes. " Director Walter Salles has been one of those enthusiasts since he was an 18-year-old growing up in Brazil under a stifling military dictatorship. ENTERTAINMENT Local Duo's 1st Album Blends Blues, Humor January 8, 1985 | THOMAS K. ARNOLD It's hard to pin down what Mojo Nixon is all about, especially if you've never seen him appear on stage and are relying on the reports of people who have. Even seeing him live, playing such poplar cult clubs as the Spirit and Bodie's, won't give you a clear impression of the man. BOOKS The 'Road' much traveled September 2, 2007 JACK KEROUAC'S "On the Road" has been iconic since it appeared Sept. 5, 1957.

A roman à clef about the author's cross-country adventures (as Sal Paradise) with friend Neal Cassady, known in the book as Dean Moriarty, the novel was begun in the late 1940s and completed, famously, in April 1951, in a three-week writing marathon on a 120-foot scroll. Several new books commemorate the novel's 50th anniversary, including "Road Novels 1957-1960," edited by Douglas Brinkley (Library of America: 864 pp. CALIFORNIA | LOCAL Merrily Tripping Into Los Angeles' Colorful Past April 10, 1995 | Cecilia Rasmussen The boundary between what we remember as the recent past and what we revere as history sometimes is a hazy one--particularly here in Los Angeles, where our preoccupation with the present can make last year seem like a long time ago. But at some mysterious moment, the places and things we individually remember cross that mental border and become part of our common history.

ENTERTAINMENT The Beat Goes On : Kerouac Still Lures Film Makers September 19, 1986 | JOHN VOLAND In 1957, a young writer from a small Massachusetts town figuratively rode across the United States with a fictional character named Dean Moriarity--a ride that took author Jack Kerouac through notoriety, fame, eventual alcoholism and early death at 47. Now, almost 30 years after "On the Road" flung Kerouac into the public eye, the myth of the man who became the symbol of the Beat Generation still fascinates college freshmen and literati alike.

Question: What beat novel featured the character Dean Moriarty?
Answer: On The Road