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The Beat Movement

By Raquel Peralta, Juan Contreras, Devin Fitzgerald, Justice Lilly

1948, The Beat Movement Discovered

Biographical Info.

1957

The Book On The Road was published on 1957 by Jack Kerouac with the key characters William S. Burroughs as Old Bull Lee, Allen Ginsberg as Carlo Marx, Neal Cassady as Dea Moriaty and Jack Kerouac as The narrator Sal Paradise when all four friends travel to America

The Beat Movement ( Beat Generation ) is composed of poets and writers who explored and influenced American Culture after World War 2. The Beat Generation start with Allen Ginsberg a poet (1926-1977), Jack Kerouac a novelist (1914-1969), and William S. Burroughs a novelist.(1914-1997)

Howl by Allen Ginsberg was published in 1956.

1956

Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti was published in 1955. In the same year Lawrence open a bookstore, City Lights Books in San Francisco.

1955

Timeline

Jack Kerouac began writing The Town and the City in 1946 after the death of his father but then was published in 1950.

1946

Themes

1944

World War 2 is going on throughout Europe and Philippines. First Meeting of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Herbert Huncke in New York.

The Beats Generations themes and subjects were mostly about creativity, freedom, drugs, and adventure. The majority of their fame came from Allen's book "Howl", Burrough's "Naked Lunch" and Kerouac's "On the Road" Their beliefs influenced musicians such as Bob Dylan, The Beatles and Elvis Presley.

William S. Burroughs: The Soft Machine

Lawrence Ferlinghetti: I Am Waiting & Pictures of the Gone World

Jack Kerouac : On the Road & The Town and the the City

Allen Ginsberg : Howl and Pull my Daisy

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