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Hi, I need help with essay on Paper about 3 themes from an excerpt from Jack Kerouac's On the Road and supporting the existance of themes with information f. Paper must be at least 750 words. Please,

Hi, I need help with essay on Paper about 3 themes from an excerpt from Jack Kerouac's On the Road and supporting the existance of themes with information f. Paper must be at least 750 words. Please, no plagiarized work!

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II. Three Themes from an Excerpt of ‘On the Road’ by Jack Kerouac One of the great themes of the novel was the relationship of the writer with a character who embodied the very free spirit that the book wanted to bring out, the spirit of the whole movement towards the unexplored regions of the American psyche. That character is Dean. This character has the stature of someone extraordinary for the very reason that he was passionate about the life that he lived: “He was simply a youth tremendously excited with life, and though he was a con-man, he was only conning because he wanted so much to live and to get involved with people who would otherwise pay no attention to him” (Kerouac 13). ...

writer into leaving the known and boring life that he lived and into going out on a limb to travel, powered only by their imagination and their willingness to explore and try out new things. The way Dean lived his life is a testament to that boundlessness of spirit that was the personification of the freedom and the spontaneity that the writer wanted to portray in the work (Reno). There is the element therefore of Dean being the catalyst for the adventure and the character around which the other key character of the novel, Sal, formed his own view of reality and of what it means to be fully free and alive. Dean was the character around which Sal would form his own identity too, as a man free to wander and to discover his own capacity for happiness and living fully (Slate.fr). A second theme in the excerpt is the perceptiveness of Sal himself, who after all had the vision to see what he saw in Dean and to be able to glean from the man intimations of his own capacity for inventiveness, creativity, and freedom to live. True it was Dean who showed him the way, but one can argue too that without his own capacity to see and to imagine he would not have been able to imagine the possibilities of life with Dean. It took Sal to realize Dean’s unique capacity for the kind of life that he wanted, and it was Sal who was able to see that part of Dean’s psyche and life that matched his own. This is not hard to imagine. One sees only things that one can identify with and have an internal map of. The fact that Sal was able to realize his own capacity for living creatively and on the brink of things is a testament to the fact that Sal himself saw his own deepest inclinations in the person of Dean. Dean was after all an aspect of the life and of the inner workings of Sal himself.

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