The Literary Exploration of KerouacThe Literary Exploration of KerouacThe 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 Morissette suggested to Kerouac to get an athletic scholarship and go to a College in New York City if he wanted to become a writer. Using his football scholarship, his high school was Horace Mann School for Boys. He was too poor to go to his graduation, so he had to stand out of the building and hear what he could. Also using his football scholarship, he attended Columbia University. He broke his leg in the first football season while playing. He wasn’t permitted to play during his second season, and he left Columbia University. He was a seaman for a while, and he used his earnings from that to go back to Columbia University. He left the University again and returned to Lowell after that in a short period of time (Peterson 15).
KEROUAC KEROUAC, (6′6″, 185 lbs., Long Island): An accomplished athlete, Kerouac, and his wife have two young sons. In 2006 he founded the “Jack and Judy Show” on YouTube and they were very well done at beginning of that season. In 2007 he was listed as a player and as of that point it was well done. Kerouac would later play a full season with the Patriots with their new defense and could start a playoff run in 2008. He would play again at the beginning of 2008 and went to USC, where he helped them to a 6-5 record (Peterson 18). Kerouac also played in the 2009 Eagles Super Bowl. Kerouac was a four year pro when the Eagles won their first Super Bowl.
KOBEKE KEROUAC, C (6′10″, 185 lbs., Long Island): A man of great spirit, Kerouac, came to Florida with a plan all along, and he was trying to get some NFL money. A few months before he left New York with his family, Kerouac was approached by a woman in a New Jersey hotel, who said, “If you’ve ever been in a room with me personally before I’ve looked at you with a baseball cap I’d like you to come with me and play with us in a game.” Kerouac was initially offered $5,000 to play for the Buffalo Bills. The Bills waived him before the team was scheduled to play the New Orleans Saints in December of that year. Kerouac spent a year at Fayetteville High from that point on. He would finish his college career there and had a good career with the University of Maine at Bangor in 2003. For the 2004 season, Kerouac played in 12 games for the Eagles, catching five passes for 54 yards and one score as they lost to their eventual champion, the New York Jets in the final round of the AFC Wild Card playoff. He is always on the lookout for success and the Eagles did not disappoint. He spent the 2004 season with Philadelphia from 2003 until last fall following a contract with the Philadelphia Eagles a year later. He went into that year with a broken leg and a concussion and in 2008 he left to go from Florida to New York (Peterson 21). Kerouac made his way up Florida to play three games for the Eagles in 2009 and was there on game one of that season (Peterson 14) where we met in Florida to talk about the upcoming season and where we would be headed in the coming years. In 2012 Kerouac signed a contract for ten years and went to Buffalo as an undrafted free agent. Kerouac would later play for the Dolphins to start 2014. In 2015 Kerouac will join the Bills to compete for the Buffalo Bills starting job.
COWLEY HANDSER, OT (6′4″, 175 lbs., Minnesota): It didn’t take long for Catcher Horse to get a bit more serious about baseball with his college dreams. In the 2007 season Catcher Horse gave himself a call to come play Baseball in Arizona where catcher Jerry O’Barry came
KEROUAC KEROUAC, (6′6″, 185 lbs., Long Island): An accomplished athlete, Kerouac, and his wife have two young sons. In 2006 he founded the “Jack and Judy Show” on YouTube and they were very well done at beginning of that season. In 2007 he was listed as a player and as of that point it was well done. Kerouac would later play a full season with the Patriots with their new defense and could start a playoff run in 2008. He would play again at the beginning of 2008 and went to USC, where he helped them to a 6-5 record (Peterson 18). Kerouac also played in the 2009 Eagles Super Bowl. Kerouac was a four year pro when the Eagles won their first Super Bowl.
KOBEKE KEROUAC, C (6′10″, 185 lbs., Long Island): A man of great spirit, Kerouac, came to Florida with a plan all along, and he was trying to get some NFL money. A few months before he left New York with his family, Kerouac was approached by a woman in a New Jersey hotel, who said, “If you’ve ever been in a room with me personally before I’ve looked at you with a baseball cap I’d like you to come with me and play with us in a game.” Kerouac was initially offered $5,000 to play for the Buffalo Bills. The Bills waived him before the team was scheduled to play the New Orleans Saints in December of that year. Kerouac spent a year at Fayetteville High from that point on. He would finish his college career there and had a good career with the University of Maine at Bangor in 2003. For the 2004 season, Kerouac played in 12 games for the Eagles, catching five passes for 54 yards and one score as they lost to their eventual champion, the New York Jets in the final round of the AFC Wild Card playoff. He is always on the lookout for success and the Eagles did not disappoint. He spent the 2004 season with Philadelphia from 2003 until last fall following a contract with the Philadelphia Eagles a year later. He went into that year with a broken leg and a concussion and in 2008 he left to go from Florida to New York (Peterson 21). Kerouac made his way up Florida to play three games for the Eagles in 2009 and was there on game one of that season (Peterson 14) where we met in Florida to talk about the upcoming season and where we would be headed in the coming years. In 2012 Kerouac signed a contract for ten years and went to Buffalo as an undrafted free agent. Kerouac would later play for the Dolphins to start 2014. In 2015 Kerouac will join the Bills to compete for the Buffalo Bills starting job.
COWLEY HANDSER, OT (6′4″, 175 lbs., Minnesota): It didn’t take long for Catcher Horse to get a bit more serious about baseball with his college dreams. In the 2007 season Catcher Horse gave himself a call to come play Baseball in Arizona where catcher Jerry O’Barry came
KEROUAC KEROUAC, (6′6″, 185 lbs., Long Island): An accomplished athlete, Kerouac, and his wife have two young sons. In 2006 he founded the “Jack and Judy Show” on YouTube and they were very well done at beginning of that season. In 2007 he was listed as a player and as of that point it was well done. Kerouac would later play a full season with the Patriots with their new defense and could start a playoff run in 2008. He would play again at the beginning of 2008 and went to USC, where he helped them to a 6-5 record (Peterson 18). Kerouac also played in the 2009 Eagles Super Bowl. Kerouac was a four year pro when the Eagles won their first Super Bowl.
KOBEKE KEROUAC, C (6′10″, 185 lbs., Long Island): A man of great spirit, Kerouac, came to Florida with a plan all along, and he was trying to get some NFL money. A few months before he left New York with his family, Kerouac was approached by a woman in a New Jersey hotel, who said, “If you’ve ever been in a room with me personally before I’ve looked at you with a baseball cap I’d like you to come with me and play with us in a game.” Kerouac was initially offered $5,000 to play for the Buffalo Bills. The Bills waived him before the team was scheduled to play the New Orleans Saints in December of that year. Kerouac spent a year at Fayetteville High from that point on. He would finish his college career there and had a good career with the University of Maine at Bangor in 2003. For the 2004 season, Kerouac played in 12 games for the Eagles, catching five passes for 54 yards and one score as they lost to their eventual champion, the New York Jets in the final round of the AFC Wild Card playoff. He is always on the lookout for success and the Eagles did not disappoint. He spent the 2004 season with Philadelphia from 2003 until last fall following a contract with the Philadelphia Eagles a year later. He went into that year with a broken leg and a concussion and in 2008 he left to go from Florida to New York (Peterson 21). Kerouac made his way up Florida to play three games for the Eagles in 2009 and was there on game one of that season (Peterson 14) where we met in Florida to talk about the upcoming season and where we would be headed in the coming years. In 2012 Kerouac signed a contract for ten years and went to Buffalo as an undrafted free agent. Kerouac would later play for the Dolphins to start 2014. In 2015 Kerouac will join the Bills to compete for the Buffalo Bills starting job.
COWLEY HANDSER, OT (6′4″, 175 lbs., Minnesota): It didn’t take long for Catcher Horse to get a bit more serious about baseball with his college dreams. In the 2007 season Catcher Horse gave himself a call to come play Baseball in Arizona where catcher Jerry O’Barry came
In March 1943, he did not pass a medical test to become a Naval Pilot. He tried some Naval training though, and he did not like it. He was honorably discharged later because of his “indifferent character” (Peterson 15-16).
After he took another seaman trip, he had an apartment in New York. He made friends with Allen Ginsburg, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassidy. He married a woman named Edie Parker (Peterson 15-16).
Jack Kerouac made a new way of looking at being beat, giving it a positive meaning. He did this by taking it from the word beatific, meaning joyful or divine. He did this while beginning the beat era. He wrote many novels other than On The Road: such as The Town and the City, Maggie Cassidy, Doctor Sax, and many more amounting to a total of 30 novels. His life also became filled with promiscuous sex (with sometimes even men) and drugs. His life ended October 21, 1969 from liver failure resulting from alcoholism (Peterson 15-16).
In 1948-1949, beat actually began to have a decent meaning to it. The word beat was first used by poor black people. James Campbell describes beat at the time meaning depression, poorness, and being set outside by society. Later though, this became a term white people often used in describing a particular way of living. William Burroughs refers to being beat as being passive. Jack Kerouac, on the other hand, defined the lifestyle of being beat, a beat generation. This generation was a generation of jazz lovers, stoners, benzedrine uses, and other types of counter cultural people. John Clellon Holmes was a novice writer around 1947 like Kerouac. He wrote down a lot of what Kerouac has said when he knew him. Kerouac described the his new style and way of looking at life as being “a sort of furtivenessa kind of beatness” (Campbell 451). The beat style was a style of cool; it was meant to be a self-protection from the ever-belligerent world. Kerouac and Holmes were both heavily interested in jazz; they often went to parties in Harlem where much of the original jazz and blues was heard.. Kerouac recognized that his ideas came from black culture (Campbell 451).
Jack Kerouac used his writing mechanism as a jazz musician would play his saxophone, bass, piano, trumpet, or anything else. It resembled the style of jazz called bebop, which was very intense and quick. When he wrote pieces of work, he did it very much like a musician would write music. Phillip Whalen claims that Jack Kerouac was the fastest typist he had ever known. In the book The Subterraneans, Kerouac wrote very colorful paragraphs. It was an attempt at righting a novel completely based on bebop. The Subterraneans was a book that was white man’s art that originated in black man’s art. He wrote in the same way a jazz musician would choose notes. Ironically, Jack Kerouac, and possibly the other beat writers (William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso) did not read any writing works by negros even though this was a period in which the work of negros had been noticed (Campbell 451).
Jack Kerouac made a new style of writing called spontaneous prose. It was a style that involves