On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Imagine a sign on the side of the road. In shallow wood-carved letters it reads, “Freedom: 40 Miles.” If only it had been that easy. Instead, the quest for freedom was one stretched out over years, and the long-awaited treasure was never found. Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road is the story of many journeys, back and forth across America, and just one; of the pursuit for freedom. In On the Road, Kerouac explores the …showed first 75 words of 977 total…

…showed last 75 words of 977 total…the world, and it had seemed that the world was in love with him. Sal was the quiet observer, who was lost in comparison to Dean’s direction, unintelligible to Dean’s western eloquence. By the end their roles had switched. Sal never loses his affection for Dean, but knows that the foreseen fantasy of the two old bums that Dean had painted so early on would only become a reality for one of them.