![]() ![]() There's also a fair amount of profanity used ("s-t," "sonofabitch," "dammit," "bastard," "c-k"), as well as outdated racial references ("negroes") and homophobic slurs ("fag," "fairy"). Many sexual encounters are mentioned but not graphically described. The novel, not surprisingly, includes numerous accounts of life on the edge involving drug and alcohol use, and in many ways glorifies substance abuse. This book is revered as the defining novel of the Beat Generation, a post-WWII cultural movement closely identified with jazz/be-bop music, drug and alcohol use, and other forms of artistic, intellectual, and personal experimentation. Parents need to know that Jack Kerouac's seminal 1957 novel On the Road is about two friends, Sal and Dean (based on the author and his friend Neal Cassady), who travel around the United States and Mexico, experiencing life fueled and heightened by drugs, alcohol, and sex. Sal and Dean are usually drunk, high, or both.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]() Most characters also drink alcohol to excess (beer, port, many unspecified "drinks"). Characters in On the Road smoke cigarettes and pot, and take Benzedrine one section, a couple of characters use heroin, and the book describes them shooting up and their demeanor before and after their fix. ![]()
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