Monday, May 17, 2010
Two snaps and a drumroll
So, I was doing my history project on 'Common Teenage Stereotypes of the 1950's" and the beatniks really caught my attention. These kids rebelled by saying what they felt no matter how hard the truth was to hear and sat back and relaxed with tight clothing and cigarettes knowing that the world is not this perfect suburbia that most people wanted to make it out to be. I became so involved in this topic of the beat generation that I truly began to understand Jack Kerouac, why he wanted this trip in the first place, why his 120 foot scroll had such an impact, and why his style of writing reached out to so many people. He was the innovator of all the innovators of today and I think he gets a few snaps for that.
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Yeah I get that completely. Jack didn't do things the normal way, redefined how you could live your life. It was tough but yet satisfying at the same time. He learned a lot. I agree in the sense of how he just told it how it was, and that was really why his book and writing was respected and really enjoyed later in time. It's kind of like taking a breather, "oh someone gets it" or "oh yeah, i've thought about that too", and you maybe have thought no one had ever been thinking about that before.
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