The Importance Of Freedom In Jack Kerouac's On The Road
Jack Kerouac’s On the Road demonstrates the limitless mobility for white American men during the Long Fifties. He does this by including those of another race and ethnicity and illustrates their freedom or otherwise (lack of freedom) to demonstrate life of a Mexican migrant worker. It is unconventional that Sal finds comfort in the Mexican migrant worker lifestyle; although it appears to be a carefree and untroubled lifestyle, these Mexican migrant workers face hardships that prevent them from finding well-paying jobs. Instead, they are placed in hard laborious jobs that are dangerous and demeaning. Sal’s relationship with Terry in Bakersfield, California, evidently reveals Sal as an unreliable narrator who is unaware of the racial and classed