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Company Logo 浙江大学 浙江大学 LOGO Inspirations of Jack Kerouac ? 专业：英语 学生姓名：陈鹤 指导教师：徐红 ? 【Abstract】 Many things have been said and written about the American writer Jack Kerouac. He had been regarded as the inventor of avant-garde American writing, a religious zealot, a corrupter of American values, this century’s Shakespeare, and a drunken ra mbler. In many ways he is all these things and not any of them, what we do know is that no other writer in the mid nineteenth century had more influence over the shaping of popular American culture. This is not what Kerouac set out to accomplish, but what eventually was the outcome of his writings. Despite his deep protest against the movements in culture that his writing started, he will forever be remembered as the father to this new era of American literature. Jack Kerouac led a life of impulsiveness that was illustrated in the spontaneous language of his literary works and emulated by the Beat Generation, a generation of counter-culture youth that sought to challenge the standards of society and effectively left an example for future activist movements in America. Throughout his short but brilliant life, there are some very important factors that not only shaped Kerouac’s works and writing style, but also largely influenced his character and life. Those factors include the friendship with his peer writers, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsburg, William Burroughs, and Gary Snyder, to name just a few, each of whom either inspired or encouraged him in the creating of his works and the forming of his writing style. Among them, the single biggest influence was Neal Cassady. Neal’s life and persona have a direct influence on Kerouac’s writing by giving up more traditional writing styles for a free flowing spontaneous style that made him famous. Kerouac’s first and also the most famous novel On the Road which inaugurated his career as the spokesman for the Beat Generation is essentially an autobiographical account of Kerouac’s reckl