Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg And The Beat Movement
In 1944 Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs diverging paths led them to connect with each other in New York City, in order to begin what is called The Beat movement. The unexpected ingredient of each personality assisted in the precarious movement of the 1960s. Jack Kerouac originated as a skilled jock from a working class family in Massachusetts; if he had not injured his leg he may chosen to employ his scholarship to enter college as a star football player. However, that scenario was no longer viable due to his injury; lucky for Kerouac his curiosity in writing became beneficial towards his future. Allen Ginsberg originated from New Jersey raised with a father who taught high school children. William Burroughs were a great mind who journeyed through Times Square, living a free life, mainly because he was a homeless man.
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The Beats were composed of inquisitive minds, constantly searching for some form of truth and freedom.
Since, they possessed an insatiable thirst for knowledge of those who culture was pegged as weird because of their skin tone, sexual preference, homeless, chronic drug use or anyone that was marginalized by society because they did not into the ideal of the American way of life, they unknowingly created movement were these marginalized people could be theirselves. Some characteristics of the Beats and their followers, were their writings tend to reek of purity, because the words spilt from their experiences, heart and mind unto a blank sheet of paper. They were overall mainly young college students, who were social outcasts, that participated in drug and alcohol use, at one point of time struggled to achieve perfection and extremely misunderstood by
society.
Ginsberg and Burroughs were both homosexuals, although Ginsberg had a infatuation with Kerouac, they were not romantically involved mainly because Kerouac unlike the majority of the males involved with the Beats, was not a homosexual. I hold firmly in the belief that the revolutionary leaders were able to mentally grasp the pain these social outcast felt living in the shadows of what was perceived as the average American lifestyle because of the oddities they possessed from being depressed to having alternative sexual preferences.
The most interesting concept of the video is how President Eisenhower wanted 1950s America to live an unrealistic lifestyle with peace and conformity as the foundation. Furthermore, I was astonished by the fact that America actually conformed to his whims with no turbulence, especially by the marginalized community.
In the previous paragraphs I was introduce to a host of new information that I laid out, however I believe the women of the Beats community were overlooked by a lot of people. These unoriginal looking women were the decorations to these outlandish men. Although, they did not resemble the women who fit into mainstream society, these nurtures of the Beats did not look very different from one and other. They were the ones who actually took care of these great minds of the underworld.
In conclusion, the Beats were tortured souls, who nurtured their own minds, allowing those who masquerade around as normal people an outlet to be who they truly wanted to be. The Beats are recognized for their amazing skills in so many areas of the arts, since art is a form of communication, they are truly the vessel to communicate for the voiceless ones of America
The Beats were composed of inquisitive minds, constantly searching for some form of truth and freedom.
Since, they possessed an insatiable thirst for knowledge of those who culture was pegged as weird because of their skin tone, sexual preference, homeless, chronic drug use or anyone that was marginalized by society because they did not into the ideal of the American way of life, they unknowingly created movement were these marginalized people could be theirselves. Some characteristics of the Beats and their followers, were their writings tend to reek of purity, because the words spilt from their experiences, heart and mind unto a blank sheet of paper. They were overall mainly young college students, who were social outcasts, that participated in drug and alcohol use, at one point of time struggled to achieve perfection and extremely misunderstood by
society.
Ginsberg and Burroughs were both homosexuals, although Ginsberg had a infatuation with Kerouac, they were not romantically involved mainly because Kerouac unlike the majority of the males involved with the Beats, was not a homosexual. I hold firmly in the belief that the revolutionary leaders were able to mentally grasp the pain these social outcast felt living in the shadows of what was perceived as the average American lifestyle because of the oddities they possessed from being depressed to having alternative sexual preferences.
The most interesting concept of the video is how President Eisenhower wanted 1950s America to live an unrealistic lifestyle with peace and conformity as the foundation. Furthermore, I was astonished by the fact that America actually conformed to his whims with no turbulence, especially by the marginalized community.
In the previous paragraphs I was introduce to a host of new information that I laid out, however I believe the women of the Beats community were overlooked by a lot of people. These unoriginal looking women were the decorations to these outlandish men. Although, they did not resemble the women who fit into mainstream society, these nurtures of the Beats did not look very different from one and other. They were the ones who actually took care of these great minds of the underworld.
In conclusion, the Beats were tortured souls, who nurtured their own minds, allowing those who masquerade around as normal people an outlet to be who they truly wanted to be. The Beats are recognized for their amazing skills in so many areas of the arts, since art is a form of communication, they are truly the vessel to communicate for the voiceless ones of America