The Literary Exploration of Kerouac
“With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life you could call my life on the Road”(Kerouac 1). That was a quote from Jack Kerouac’s book On The Road. His life on the road referred to in the novel On The Road is also referring to Jack Kerouac’s quest in life to find the true purpose for living and a new lifestyle. Jack Kerouac’s works were certainly an important part of American literature (Novels 193; Goldstein 61).
Jack Kerouac’s date of birth was March 12, 1922. He originally lived in Lowell, Massachusetts. Jack Kerouac’s ancestry was French-Canadian. When his family was together, they spoke a French-Canadian language called Joual. Kerouac was often called TiJean, which meant Petite Jean. He was the youngest of two other children. One of his brothers, named Gerard, died when Jack was 5 from rheumatic fever (Peterson 15, Jack 1).
Jack went to St. Louis French Parochial School when he was at the age of six. A priest named......
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