Hit the road, Jack Kerouac

( Picture of Kerouac reciting a passage of On The Road to audience)
I've recently learned that there is a Beat Museum in San Fransisco and have every intention on going there this summer when I arrive in California. Now that I've read The Dharma Bums and On The Road by Kerouac I'm moving on to a new member of the Beat Generation. Firstly, I would like to conclude on Jack Kerouac. The reason why I chose The Beat Generation as a topic for my blogs is because I'm interested in people who change the world for a drastic cause. Much like Martin Luther King was a spokesman for the Civil Rights movement, and Bob Dylan was a spokesman for the sixties, Kerouac was a spokesman for poetry and freedom of expression in the forties-fifties. People who are able to bring everyone together for a good and creative reason are admirable. Being a leader is very hard and even more so when you're leading a group of people who are against most norms. Beat was seen as worn down and weary until Kerouac and others changed the definition. Beat took on a new roll and became uplifting and rhythmic. Someone who was tired and beat out, wanted change so they went to cafes and drank black coffee staying up all night discussing eccentric topics to a certain vibe, a particular beat. Now I'm going to focus on a different member of the Beat movement. William S. Burroughs, Kerouac helped edit his book Naked Lunch which played a key role in the history of American Literature.