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Jack Kerouac, Father of the Beat Generation?
Title: Jack Kerouac, Father of the Beat Generation?
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Jack Kerouac, Father of the Beat Generation?
Beat Generation
n : a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)
Beatnik
n : A person, especially a member or follower of the Beat Generation, whose behavior, views, and often style of dress are pointedly unconventional.
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Considered by many as the father of the beat movement, Jack …showed first 75 words of 1547 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1547 total…is because he was one of the few beat authors to be published. However, he was a beatnik. He went against his middle class upbringing. He had absolutely no economic worry, he had a social life with intellects that did too many drugs, wrote in unconventional ways and looked east for enlightenment. Jack Kerouac was one of the most well remembered beatniks. Perhaps that's the reason he is considered the father of the Beat Generation.
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