Summary Of Reading And Writing About The Road By Jonathan Silverman
In the essay, “Reading and Writing about the Road,” Jonathan Silverman, examines the text he observed during a trip across America, along with people’s obsession with American popular culture and the road. This obsession is seen in writings from travelers of the past, and more notably in the many movies that have been made, based on travelers and the road. Regardless of people’s different reasons to travel across America, each person will encounter messages through their own interruption of messaging they view along the road. Messages emit from the various towns, signs and the landscape seen by the traveler, all of which are sending out messages. These messages generally are geared toward traveler’s necessities such as, direction, food,