Jack Kerouac s character evaluation

When he was young and ignorant, he and the "Beat Faction" shouted for rebellion in the face of a society where spiritual freedom was overwhelmed by rapidly expanding materialism, hoping that the rebellious and shocking behavior would attract the attention of the public. However, Kerouac did not know what the purpose and end of the rebellion was, and what his howling, madness, and decadence could not hide was his confusion about the meaning of life. Kerouac's spiritual quest for this period can be summed up as the "vulgar" stage.

Because blind madness did not provide Kerouac with an answer, but made him fall into a cycle of more and more madness and confusion, so he turned to religion for help, and the comprehension of Zen Buddhism on the lonely peak made his mind get a stage of peace, although he did not reach the eternity of the soul, but he realized that the care for the meaning of life still has to be put into life after all, this period can be summarized as the "worldly" stage. After returning to the world, Kerouac had a deep experience and ultimate thinking about life, this period can be summarized as the stage of "returning to the world", after entering the stage of "returning to the world", Kerouac realized more and more clearly: life is life, it does not have the supreme meaning because of someone's hard work, on the contrary, the calmer the life, the more it can show the meaning of life.

His rebellion cannot be called a defeat or compromise alone. The three stages of "vulgarity, detachment, and reversion" reflect Kerouac's arduous journey of pursuing spiritual freedom and the meaning of life to the best of his ability.

In his 1949 letter to the writer Alan Harrington, Kerouac wrote: 'I don't beat anymore, I have money, I have a career, and I feel more lonely than I did when I 'roamed' Times Square at three o'clock in the morning or hitchhiked on the highway late at night, penniless.' It's a strange thing.

I was never a "rebel", I was just a happy, shy, clumsy, sincere fool, and I always will be. Perhaps although he has become an idol for many, or even an icon of pop culture. The real Kerouac was never accepted.

They have usurped his appearance and his wisdom, and that's all. Perhaps Kerouac himself knew this, and in the group, he only played a role, and the real him, he had always been an introverted and withdrawn youth who did not fit in. ”

Most of Kerouac's ** truthfully describe the life and spiritual outlook of the little people, highlighting the "individual" and "personality", and the confession at the personal level is especially prominent in **. For example, "On the Road" is a work with rich connotations, which is full of the complex inner emotions of those young Americans living in chaotic times: confusion, searching, disappointment, short-term euphoria, long-term sadness, and always there, there is eternal repentance.

Of course, the sense of repentance contained in this ** alone is also complicated. Because the protagonist and his friends, their lives are chaotic, and their minds are even more chaotic.

The people in Kerouac's work, who find their way to redeem themselves through exploration. They wander the road, hoping to find a new faith on the other side of the road. They set their sights on the mysterious and ancient Oriental Zen Buddhism, hoping to get away from the world, gain tranquility and capture the epiphany of the mind in meditation. They are close to nature and experience the true nature of life in every flower, grass and tree.

Although their path of self-redemption did not finally keep them out of the state of chaos and confusion due to various reasons, and did not make them change and transcend qualitatively, they at least dared to be themselves, dared to find their true selves, and paid the arduous process of searching for their true selves.

As a representative writer of the "Beat Generation", Kerouac's deep sense of repentance in his works represents the inner repentance of the entire "Beat Generation". He once said that they were basically a "religious generation" who just wanted to find faith on the other side of the road. Kerouac and his characters reflect on their reflections, rebellion, anger, and sorrow, all of which imply a sense of repentance

repentance of oneself, repentance of indulgence in one's own behavior, evasion of responsibility, ignorance of cherishing, and repentance of the depravity of one's real life, wandering and doing nothing for half of his life; Confession of the group, the country, and the era in which you live, the regret that this is a group of hopeless and defeated young people, the confession that this is a country where there is no freedom and equality, and the confession that this is a chaotic era that does not give people a sense of security. Jack Kerouac created a new spontaneous writing technique, "Wild Prose", which subverted the traditional writing style, focused on the autobiographical nature of the work, and created a series of "life records" with random and scattered plots**. ** Creation has become a spontaneous war against the sense of nihilism and despair of the author, and his deviant and shocking lifestyle and literary practice have brought a strong impact and shock to the mainstream American society and culture in the fifties and sixties of the twentieth century.

Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was a representative of the "Beat Generation" in the United States. His main works include autobiographical ** "On the Road", "Dharma Wanderer", "Desolate Angel", "Lonely Traveler" and so on. With his deviant and shocking lifestyle and literary ideas, he shook the values and social outlook of mainstream American culture in the fifties and sixties of the 20th century.

Kerouac created a new kind of automatic writing technique of ode - "wild prose", and his "life records" often have a kind of casual and provocative and provocative nature, subverting the traditional writing style. His wandering, contemplative and epiphany life became an ideal of the "Beat Generation".