Sunday, April 25, 2010
It's not an autobiography
I recently came to the conclusion that the reason On the Road often confuses me is because I have been thinking about it as an autobiography by Jack Kerouac. It is impossible to know the difference between Jack as a character and Kerouac as an author. It seems that Jack shouldn't be the main character of the book because he doesn't share enough personal information. Kerouac write more about Neal Cassady's childhood than about his own. I'm unsure about what genre this book is categorized under. Any ideas?
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I feel the same way about this book. We readers often wonder what genre this book is under. But how do we know that its not an autobiography? Mabe Jack is just the way he describes himself in writing and and in life.
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