lesson

When On the Road was published people saw it to be a brave piece of literature that revealed the wicked ways of the degenerates that took to the road. The coverage of drug and alcohol abuse in Kerouac's writing gave the book an authentic yet deplorable nature. It seems that the pure philosophy that is presented in On the Road is often overshadowed by the scandalous accounts. Kerouac clearly understands that there is something to be learned from the life he chose and by reading On the Road one can find what that is.