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A Brief Study on the Spirit of Beat Generation Reflected in On the Road Introduction Jack Kerouac (1922 ~ 1969), is a representative of the American Beat Generation. Kerouac with Ginsberg and Burroughs originally met at Columbia University in 1944, revealing the prelude of the Beat movement. In his life, he composed abundant works, mainly dominated by novels and to a large extent based on his personal experience, and in which directly expressed his real experiences, feelings and thoughts to show the exploration and pursuit of he and his Beat companions. His major works include the autobiographical novel On the Road (1957), The Dharma Bums (1958), Desolation Angels (1965), Town and the City (1950), The Subterraneans (1958), Maggie Cassidy (1959), Mexican City Blues (1959), Doctor Sax (1959), Lonesome Traveler (1960), and so on. His deviant and shocking lifestyle and literature position shocked the values and social values of the American mainstream culture in the fifties and sixties of the 20th century. Kerouac in the novel created a new automatically writing technique - “Wild prose”. The fiction of the recording of his daily life often brought with a kind of randomness and provocative without a plot to subvert the traditional writing style. The uninhibited and contemplative life of Jack Kerouac becomes an ideal of Beat Generation. The literary work which is the most comprehensive performance of Beat Generation lifestyle, and the most profoundly exploration of their rebellion and the pursuit may be considered as On the Road by Jack Kerouac. On the Road is the second and the most famous book by Jack Kerouac. This work was completed in 1951, but had been repeatedly rejected by all publishers. With twists and turns, finally it was able to launch in 1957. However, as soon as published, On the Road immediately achieved a great success with resulting in a broad impact and aroused the heat controversy all around the world, ranging from overwhelming compliments to severe c