This
paper explains that Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" captures the essence of the United States in a manner that has never been accomplished before because his disjointed and arbitrary travels mimic the complex and almost incomprehensible experience that is America, filled with the
people and places, both famous and obscure. The author points out that Kerouac rolls through the countryside creating
memories, connected directly his relationship with his
friends; thus the theme, which pulls the
novel together, is that the vast expanses of the United States are characterized by the people within them. The paper relates that the novel makes America real because, unlike other novels about this country "On the Road " does not appear to have any ideology aside from
existence: "We are here. We are alive."
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