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195/kloc-0 April 2-22, Jack Kerouac completed the first draft of On the Road with a typewriter and a roll of 120-foot-long printing paper.

"The greatest experience of my travel career is about to begin. About six or seven boys were lying on a truck with a flat trailer in the back ... I ran up and asked,' Is there a room available?' They said,' Yes, get in the car. Everyone who gets on the bus has seats. Before I could get into the carriage, the van left. My body was shaking, and a passenger hugged me, so I took the opportunity to sit down. Someone handed me a bottle of inferior whisky ... It was raining in Mao Mao all the time in Nebraska, but it was poetic. I suddenly drank it. Aha, we are on our way again! A young man in a baseball cap shouted ... they said they would travel all over America by bike this summer. We are going to Los Angeles now. ...' Why? Why? We're not sure, so don't worry. "..." —— From On the Road

On the Road is Kerouac's autobiographical masterpiece. Sal, the hero of the novel, hitchhiked or drove with Dean, Marilu and other young men and women, crossed the American mainland several times and finally arrived in Mexico. Along the way, they drank too much, smoked marijuana, played with women, talked about Zen Buddhism in the East, stopped when they were tired, spent the night in the village, wandered from new york to San Francisco, and finally dispersed ... But it is undeniable that this book has influenced the lifestyle of a whole generation of Americans and is recognized as a classic of hippie movement in the 1960s.

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, an ancient textile industrial town in Massachusetts. His parents are French immigrants from Quebec. Kerouac didn't start learning English until he was six years old. Kerouac's parents are Roman Catholics, and his father Leo Kerouac runs a printing factory, which is enough to support his family. Kerouac is the third and youngest boy in the family, enjoying a quiet and happy childhood. At the age of four, his brother Gerald, who was five years older than him, died of illness, which impressed Kerouac deeply. In his view, Gerald was gifted, extremely intelligent, especially sympathetic to small animals, but he was ruthlessly taken away by death. The religious belief of his family and the early death of his brother made Kerouac believe in reincarnation from an early age, and he later believed that Buddhism could be traced back to this incident.

Kerouac was shy since childhood, but he likes sports (horse riding, baseball, football) and is keen on reading literary works. Since middle school, he has developed the habit of carrying a notebook with him, recording the daily conversations of family, friends and neighbors, radio programs and novel languages spoken by movie characters. He read widely, from Harvard literary classics by British, French, Russian, German and American writers to works by contemporary writers, such as Hemingway. Literary allusions and street people's daily spoken language are two major features in Kerouac's works. The former obviously benefited from his love and familiarity with world famous books since childhood.