Questions tagged [on-the-road]
For questions about On The Road, the 1957 novel by Jack Kerouac. Use this tag with the [jack-kerouac] tag.
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What's the significance of the Duke Ellington concert in Kerouac's On The Road?
Minor spoilers for On the Road follow.
At the end of On the Road the narrator, Sal Paradise, is due to attend a Duke Ellington concert with his friend Remi Boncoeur. However, the situation is peculiar....
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In Kerouac's On the Road, what is "it" that the country girl at the bus stop is missing?
In part 3 of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the narrator is trying to talk to a pretty country girl at a bus station. He describes her as "dull" when he finds out that her life experience is ...
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How ‘stream of consciousness’ was On the Road? Was it planned or edited?
The Beat writer Jack Kerouac is noted for his "stream of consciousness" writing style exemplified in his 1957 novel, On the Road, but there seems to be conflicting evidence on how "stream of ...
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In Kerouac's On The Road, what is snakejuice?
Fairly straightforward question. There are a lot of slang terms for drugs in On the Road, but I was still rather startled by "snakejuice"
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