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[[File:5504197406_798e16e0c6_5454.jpg|frame|Road Trips! Drinking! Poverty!]]
{{quote|''Slim sits down at the piano and hits two notes, two Cs, then two more, then one, then two, and suddenly the big burly bass-player wakes up from a reverie and realizes Slim is playing "C-Jam Blues" and he slugs in his big forefinger on the string and the bog booming beat begins...''|Part of one of the many sentences in ''On The Road''}}
''On The Road'' is a 1951 novel by [[Jack Kerouac]]. It is considered to be the masterwork of [[The Beat Generation]], along with ''[[Naked Lunch]]'' and ''[[Howl]].'' The narrative takes place between 1947 and 1950. The book did not receive publication until 1957.
It is semi-autobiographical and relates events from the time Kerouac spent spent traveling and occasionally hitchhiking from coast to coast. However, because of legal reasons, the main character is actually an [[Author Avatar]] named [[Squat's in a Name|Sal Paradise]] who[[Perpetual Poverty|semi-impoverished]] writer and recent divorcee. It also details his friendship with the [[The Mad Hatter|increasingly crazy]] Neal Cassady (whose name has been changed to Dean Moriarity) and other writers of [[The Beat Generation]] such as [[William S. Burroughs]] and [[Allen Ginsberg]] who also show up with different names.
The original manuscript was written in one long scroll with no paragraph breaks whatsoever.
''On The Road'' has had a huge influence on modern culture with such personages as [[Bob Dylan]], Jim Morrison and Hunter S. Thompson, among others, citing it as an inspiration. It is also considered one of the quintessential American [[Road Movie|Road Trip]] novels, but then again, so is ''[[Lolita]]''.
It is [[The Film of the Book|"soon to be a major motion picture."]] Or so they say.
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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Camille and Marylou for Dean.
* [[Author Avatar]]: Sal Paradise is Jack Kerouac. Also, Dean Moriarty is fellow Beat writer Neal Cassady, Old Bull Lee is [[William S. Burroughs]], and Carlo Marx is [[Allen Ginsberg]]. Kerouac uses avatars in virtually all of his novels, although for legal reasons, the names are changed from book to book. As a result, in ''The Dharma Bums'', Kerouac is named Ray Smith, and in ''The Subterraneans'', he is named Leo Percepied.
* [[Basement Dweller]]: Well, Sal still lives with (and sometimes off) his aunt.
** When he is home, that is.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Oh! Yes!"
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Dean. So. very. much.
* [[Crazy Homeless Person]]: To an innocent bystander all the main characters can seem this way.
** Although, there are actual homeless people... who may or may not be crazy but are, at the very least, slightly unhinged.
* [[House Husband]]: Because of a series of almost comically timed and very karmic events... {{spoiler|Dean}}
* [[The Mad Hatter]]: Dean.
** He's so uninhibited that, when seeing him running naked through the desert, people have thought that he was a hallucination.
** "Oh! Yes!"
** Slim Gaillard, who has the tendency to append the word "ooroni" to the end of his words.
* [[Nude Nature Dance]]: Dean (of course) and in the middle of the desert no less.
** Also, Sal and Marylou sit naked in the front seat of a car with Dean (again!) at one point.
* [[Perpetual Poverty]]: Sal and his friends especially when on the road and often otherwise. However, they usually manage to scrape by.
* [[Road Movie]]: Technically Road Book (but it's [[The Film of the Book|"soon to be a major motion picture"]]). This book if often considered one of the great road trip novels of all time.
* [[Roman à Clef]]: [[Based on a True Story|Loosely]] relates the random travels of [[Jack Kerouac|Kerouac]] during a period of his life. All the [[Dragnet|names were changed]], but many famous [[William S. Burroughs|beat]] [[Allen Ginsberg|writers]] appear, and the book is said to have defined the [[The Beat Generation]].
* [[Two Guys and a Girl]]: Dean, Sal and Marylou.
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[[Category:Lit Fic]]
[[Category:Non-Fiction Literature]]
[[Category:The Fifties]]
[[Category:On the Road]]
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