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Sunday, April 25, 2010

ati-hero

In this book, Jack used Neal as an example of Anti-hero. Although Neal is really smart, bold and “likeable” that made him a bit hero-like, but with all the things that he had gone through, his total rejection of responsibility made him an anti-hero.
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3 comments:

Joey K. said...

I had to live with someone like this once. One of my freshman year dorm heads was a truly charismatic person. The problem was how well he knew it, and to extent he knew how to use it. He constantly was using his personality and the inherent insecurity in many of the freshman to persuade them to side with him, participate in activities they wouldn't normally, and possibly wish not to, or run errands for him. In short, used his status as a junior, his personality, and his fairly intimidating manner to con us into accepting his responsibilities.

April 25, 2010 at 9:44 PM
asta said...

Maybe Kerouac is forcing us to see another type of hero. What makes someone a hero? in short I suppose what makes someone good and I think that's why Neal is in this book. All these characters are neither good nor bad they just are human. Can a human being be a hero while still having faults?

April 25, 2010 at 9:59 PM
Kayla said...

I don't think Neal is the anti-hero of the book. Jack cares too much for Neal to portray him as such. However, Neal is not the hero either, Neal is the joker. The joker is a sad and lonely role to play, and I think Neal does so throughout the book, especially near the end.

May 19, 2010 at 9:11 AM

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