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After reading the novel, I wanted to get out of my comfort zone, get a driver's license and go on a trip to the cities. I read the novel in one breath, easily and quickly, "infected" by the mood of the main characters, their choice of fate. They may be short-sighted or frivolous, but they are happy.

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The first trip starts in New York and runs to Chicago, then Denver, and to San Francisco to visit Remi Boncoeur. This trip features drugs, alcohol and music. Sal ends up working as a night watchman in San Francisco, only to discover that he isn’t cut out for law enforcement or for staying in one place longer than a month. He takes off again.

On the way back east, Sal meets a Mexican woman named Terry, who ran away from her husband and has a little boy. They also pick some cotton. But then he heads back to New York.

The crew ends up in San Francisco, where Dean briefly abandons them. Dean can’t decide between his two women. Sal leaves for Denver, where his boredom quickly drives him back to San Francisco. There, he convinces Dean to go east and then on to Italy, because if the West didn’t bring them happiness, the only logical conclusion to go in the other direction. They stop in Denver on the way and Dean steals some cars.

The pair scores a Cadillac to drive to Chicago, and the city is wild with jazz and booze. Sal leaves Dean in New York and goes to Denver, until Dean follows him there shortly after.

Dean convinces Sal to go to Mexico, where they spend lots of money. Then Dean abandons Sal while Sal is in a dysentery-induced fever. When Sal sees him again in New York, Dean’s madness has progressed and taken on new, more silent and intense tones. Sal is unable to help his friend, and reflects sadly on Dean and America.

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Despite the fact that the book is easy to read, filled with a large number of colorful descriptions, its moments can be difficult to perceive - I just simply refused to accept the cruelty that the novel exposes. To the last, I wanted to hope that Miranda would still be able to escape.  After reading, a heavy feeling remains, and the plot remains in memory for a long time.

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The first part of the novel tells the story from Clegg's point of view. Clegg is obsessed with Miranda Grey, a middle-class art student. He admires her from a distance but is unable to make any contact with her because he is socially underdeveloped. One day, he wins a large prize in the football pools, quits his job and buys an isolated house in the countryside. He feels lonely and wants to be with Miranda. Unable to make any normal contact, Clegg decides to add her to his "collection" of pretty, preserved objects, in the hope that if he keeps her captive long enough, she will grow to love him.

After careful preparations, he kidnaps Miranda. He is convinced that Miranda will start to love him after some time. However, when she wakes up, she confronts him with his actions. Clegg is embarrassed and promises to let her go after a month.

The second part of the novel is narrated by Miranda in the form of fragments from a diary that she keeps during her captivity. Miranda reminisces over her previous life throughout this section of the novel; and many of her diary entries are written either to her sister or to G.P., whom she respected and admired as an artist. Miranda reveals that G.P. ultimately fell in love with her and consequently severed all contact with her.

Miranda tries to escape several times, but Clegg stops her. She also tries to seduce him to convince him to let her go. The only result is that he becomes confused and angry. As Clegg repeatedly refuses to release her, she begins to fantasize about killing him. After a failed attempt to do so, Miranda enters a period of self-loathing. She decides that to kill Clegg would lower her to his level. She refrains from any further attempts to do so. Before she can try to escape again, she becomes seriously ill and dies.

The third part of the novel is narrated by Clegg. At first, he wants to commit suicide after he finds Miranda dead; but, after he reads in her diary that she never loved him, he decides that he is not responsible for what happened to her and is better off without her. He buries her corpse in the garden. After that Clegg announces that he plans to kidnap another girl.

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On the Road is predominantly written in past tense. Narrative perspective is the “I”-perspective. The story is devided into four parts-trips, linked together only by protagonists, so On the Road can be regarded as four different and complete stories. Each of it is an autonomous report about a voyage.
Kerouac mentions many other musical artists and their records throughout On the Road, it helps us to understand the atmosphere of trips.

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Sal Paradise -- The protagonist and narrator of the novel. Sal is a young writer living with his aunt in New Jersey, who gets swept up by the mad eccentricity and excitement of Dean.

Dean Moriarty -- the catalyst that sends Sal on the road. Having grown up with an alcoholic father and spent time growing up in and out of jail and reform school, Dean comes to New York at the beginning of the novel to learn how to write and be an intellectual.

Carlo Marx -- a poet and friend of Sal in New York, who Dean meets in Part One and quickly becomes friends with.

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The style that John Fowles uses throughout the novel changes when the perspectives of the story change. when the narrative is conducted on behalf of Clegg, the tone is callous, heartless. When we read Miranda's diary we can see the opposite -- she describes everything colourfully, eloquently even when writes about Clegg.

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Frederick Clegg (a city clerk and amateur entomologist who loves to collect butterflies. He is an antisocial and awkward young man in his mid-20s);

Miranda Grey (a 20 year-old art student at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She grew up in a privileged middle-class household);

G.P. (George Paston) (a middle-aged artist whom Miranda falls in love with. He is frequently pretentious and is convinced of the superiority of his opinions concerning art, passion, and life in general).

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Literary trend: postmodernism
The genre: psychological detective novel

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Literary trend: beat-generation prose
The genre: tragicomedy

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Kerouac was born on March 12, 1922, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to French Canadian parents, Leo-Alcide Keroack (1889–1946) and Gabrielle-Ange Levesque (1895–1973).

Upon graduating from high school in 1939, Kerouac received a football scholarship to Columbia University, but first, he had to attend a year of preparatory school at the Horace Mann School for Boys in the Bronx. So, at the age of 17, Kerouac moved to New York City, where he was immediately awed by the limitless new experiences of big city life. Of the many wonderful new things Kerouac discovered in New York, and perhaps the most influential on his life was jazz. He worked as a reporter for the Horace Mann Record and published short stories in the school's literary magazine, the Horace Mann Quarterly.

In July 1957, Kerouac moved to a small house at 1418½ Clouser Avenue in the College Park section of Orlando, Florida, waiting for the release of “On the Road”. Few weeks later a review came out in the New York Times proclaiming Kerouac the voice of a new generation. Jack became a much acclaimed modern writer who started being regarded as a major American writer during this time. The massive success of “On the Road” brought Kerouac instant fame and he became a celebrity. Kerouac did not feel safe in public and his doubts came out true when he was badly beaten by three men outside the San Remo Bar in New York one night.

Kerouac wrote (somewhere around 26 November and 7 December 1957) about his experiences with Buddhism and also wrote on some of his adventures with Gary Snyder and other San Francisco-area poets, in The Dharma Bums, set in California and Washington which was published in 1958. In 1959 Kerouac wrote and narrated a "Beat" movie entitled "Pull My Daisy".

Jack Kerouac often appeared heavily drunk during his final years. In was on the morning of 20 October 1969 when Jack was drinking whiskey and taking notes for a book about his father's print shop in Lowell when he started feeling sick in the stomach. The same evening he was operated but the surgery found his liver completely destroyed due to years of drinking. On 21 October 1969 Kerouac gave up his fight and died at the St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg.

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John Fowles was born at Leighton-on-Sea, Essex in 1926, where he lived until the outbreak of the Second World War.

He was educated at Bedford School and New College, Oxford, where he read French and German. After graduating he taught English at the University of Poitiers and then at the Anagyriou School at Spetses. He became a full-time writer in 1963.

His best-known fiction includes his first novel, The Collector (1963), The Magus (1966) and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969). A Maggot written in 1985, is regarded as his magnum opus. Set against the backdrop of ancient timeframe and went on to become best-seller as soon as it was published. The narrative style became popular with the readers and is widely regarded as one of the greatest classics of his time. It became an instant best-seller.

John Fowles died on November 5, 2005 after a long illness.