In this week’s reading
the journey finally begins after a slow start.
The next two chapters seem to set the tone for what I assume will be the
entire story. The main character’s happy
go lucky spirit pours out of every decision he makes. He simply loves travelling, and has no fear
of strangers or hitchhiking. The setting
of the story is kind of hard to connect to due to the serious time difference. Hitchhiking is no longer acceptable, the amount
of farmers has seriously diminished, and only a few travelling circuses
actually remain. It is hard to relate to
the spirit of the open road, because I really haven’t travelled across the U.S.
with a bunch of strangers and a few friends.
I’m assuming a larger section of the story will center on Denver due to
the amount of hype the main character is giving it. With the majority of his friends already in
Denver, I am really anticipating the Denver section of the book to be rather important
and central to the theme of this story.
I also find it interesting in how much of the story takes place on the
open road. When I drove from Dallas to
Miami there wasn’t a whole lot of stuff to describe or really talk about in an
interesting way, yet Jack Kerouac has written an interesting 300 page novel
about just that. Another thing that I
think definitely doesn’t relate to our time period is the quality and kindness
of the strangers. They have lots of
respect and care for the hitchhikers, and don’t seem to mind having someone to
talk to on their individual journey’s.
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