2. Can you tell Kerouac loved language? Reflect on where in the novel this love-of-language is most evident and explore its impact on the telling of t

Kerouac’s writing is very different from most authors I have been reading, like McCarthy. Reading “The Road” first, which is very thoroughly thought out and really only gives you the bare minimum of information, just amplified Kerouac’s style of writing where he tends to give you every single detail, no matter how trivial. Although I prefer Kerouac’s style of writing, I found “The Road” much easier to get through, because of the plot you want to keep reading and see if they’ll make it, and because of his sparse writing style it’s very easy to stay on track and know exactly where you are in the book (Although sometimes it can be so sparse you don’t know how you got there). Where as in “On The Road”, the writing is very dense and sometimes feels very scattered, as if you’re just reading Kerouac’s thoughts, not a published novel with a plot. For example:

“Dean and I shuddered in the raggedness. It was now time to return the Cadillac to the owner, who lived out on Lake Shore Drive in a swank apartment with an enormous garage underneath managed by oil-scarred Negroes.”

Pg. 243

All that is needed to be said there is “It was now time to return the Cadillac to the owner” yet Kerouac has a tendency of adding the unnecessary, making full paragraphs dedicated to things that have no real relation to anything in the book previously or anything that is about to come. With that kind of writing comes a sort of charm, that does show how much Kerouac loves language, just because he takes every chance he can to use words, no matter how uneventful or unnecessary. However, sometimes it does make the book very hard to follow because if you space out for just a second when you come back you can have absolutely no idea what’s going on.