"bourgeous" - 1 õppematerjal

Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.

The storyteller is Sal Paradise (based the character on himself, the book is full of parallels). A young writer, meets Dean Moriatry who is full of life (Neal Cassady). The more people learn about Dean the more disapointed they get, heäs selfish. The road is not symbolic anymore, they're just there for the pleasure. Finally Sal losed faith in Dean as well. As a typical beatnik Dean wants to escape the aimlessness and lonelyness in his life, he is afraid of death. Middle class, petty bourgeous, was not something for them, they were disgusted by it. 03.04.13 1960's-period of change, movements, revolutions, radical movements appeared, the youth movement, the socalled sds became very influential-student democratic society, the new left became prominent, herbert marcuse-dehumanizing effects of capitalism and modern technology, freud and marx. This decade saw series of major political assasinations in America-jfk, Robert kennedy, martin luther king. Atmosphere of violence and fear, the