History Literature / OnTheRoad

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ed Dunkel's wife gives one to Dean in one of the later sections of the book, pointing out that he basically just uses people for money and fun and then tosses them aside.

* ShoutOut: "3-Minute Rule" from The Music/BeastieBoys' album ''Music/PaulsBoutique'' references this novel.
--> ''While I'm reading "On the Road" by man Jack Kerouac''

* HaveAGayOldTime: Subverted. Gay is occasionally used to mean happy but bany chapters, especially those in San Francisco, mention "queers" very clearly referring to gay people.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The above mentioned Original Scroll draft is also notable because none of the names have been changed. Kerouac changed everyone's names to avoid legal problems, and he had to change everyone's names in pretty much every subsequent book to avoid people from connecting the dots (that didn't work).

* ExecutiveMeddling: Kerouac originally wanted to publish the novel with all the real names intact, but his publisher refused and forced him to use {{Author Avatar}}s.

It was ''finally'' [[Film/OnTheRoad adapted into a movie]] in 2012 -- the earliest attempt to adapt it was to have starred a young MarlonBrando.

->''Slim sits down at the piano and hits two notes, two Cs, then two more, then one, then two, and suddenly the big burly bass-player wakes up from a reverie and realizes Slim is playing "C-Jam Blues" and he slugs in his big forefinger on the string and the bog booming beat begins...''
-->--Part of one of the many sentences in ''On the Road''

'''On the Road''' is a 1951 novel by Creator/JackKerouac. It is considered to be the masterwork of Creator/TheBeatGeneration, along with ''Literature/NakedLunch'' and ''Literature/{{Howl}}.'' The narrative takes place between 1947 and 1950. The book was not published until 1957.

* RoadMovie: Technically Road Book (but it's [[TheFilmOfTheBook "soon to be a major motion picture"]]). This book is often considered one of the great road trip novels of all time.

''On the Road'' is a 1951 novel by Creator/JackKerouac. It is considered to be the masterwork of Creator/TheBeatGeneration, along with ''Literature/NakedLunch'' and ''Literature/{{Howl}}.'' The narrative takes place between 1947 and 1950. The book was not published until 1957.

''On the Road'' has had a huge influence on modern culture with such personages as Music/BobDylan, [[Music/TheDoors Jim Morrison]] and Creator/HunterSThompson, among others, citing it as an inspiration. It is also considered one of the quintessential American [[RoadMovie Road Trip]] novels, but then again, so is ''Literature/{{Lolita}}''.

* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Dean, Sal and Marylou.

Peculiarly for the "quintessential American road novel", an abortive first draft of the novel was found among Kerouac's papers...[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road#Production_and_publication written in his native Quebecois French]].

The original manuscript was written in one long scroll with no paragraph breaks whatsoever. It was published as "The Original Scroll" in 2007, restoring many references to sex, people, drugs, crime, and the relationship between Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg, which were all censored when the book was first published.

The original manuscript was written in one long scroll with no paragraph breaks whatsoever.

It was ''finally'' [[Film/OnTheRoad adapted into a movie]] in 2012 - the earliest attempt to adapt it was to have starred a young MarlonBrando.

** "Oh! Yes!"

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Oh! Yes!"

''On the Road'' is a 1951 novel by Creator/JackKerouac. It is considered to be the masterwork of TheBeatGeneration, along with ''Literature/NakedLunch'' and ''Literature/{{Howl}}.'' The narrative takes place between 1947 and 1950. The book was not published until 1957.

* RomanAClef: [[BasedOnATrueStory Loosely]] relates the random travels of Kerouac during a period of his life. All the [[Franchise/{{Dragnet}} names were changed]], but many famous beat writers appear, and the book is said to have defined the TheBeatGeneration.

It was ''finally'' [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted into a movie]] in 2012 - the earliest attempt to adapt it was to have starred a young MarlonBrando.

It is semi-autobiographical and relates events from the time Kerouac spent spent traveling and occasionally hitchhiking from coast to coast. However, because of legal reasons, the main character is actually an AuthorAvatar named [[SquatsInAName Sal Paradise]] who is a [[PerpetualPoverty semi-impoverished]] writer and recent divorcé. It also details his friendship with the [[TheMadHatter increasingly crazy]] Neal Cassady (whose name has been changed to Dean Moriarity) and other writers of the Beat Generation such as Creator/WilliamSBurroughs and Creator/AllenGinsberg who also show up with different names.

''On the Road'' is a 1951 novel by Creator/JackKerouac. It is considered to be the masterwork of TheBeatGeneration, along with ''Literature/NakedLunch'' and ''Literature/{{Howl}}.'' The narrative takes place between 1947 and 1950. The book did not receive publication until 1957.

* RomanAClef: [[BasedOnATrueStory Loosely]] relates the random travels of Kerouac during a period of his life. All the [[Radio/{{Dragnet}} names were changed]], but many famous beat writers appear, and the book is said to have defined the TheBeatGeneration.

Peculiarly for the "quintessential American road novel", an abortive first draft of the novel was found among Kerouac's papers...[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road#Production_and_publication written in his native Quebec French]].

* AuthorAvatar: Sal Paradise is Jack Kerouac. Also, Dean Moriarty is fellow Beat writer Neal Cassady, Old Bull Lee is WilliamSBurroughs, and Carlo Marx is AllenGinsberg. Kerouac uses avatars in virtually all of his novels, although for legal reasons, the names are changed from book to book. As a result, in ''The Dharma Bums'', Kerouac is named Ray Smith, and in ''The Subterraneans'', he is named Leo Percepied.

* RomanAClef: [[BasedOnATrueStory Loosely]] relates the random travels of [[JackKerouac Kerouac]] during a period of his life. All the [[{{Dragnet}} names were changed]], but many famous [[WilliamSBurroughs beat]] [[AllenGinsberg writers]] appear, and the book is said to have defined the TheBeatGeneration.

!!''OnTheRoad'' contains examples of:

It was [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted into a movie]] in 2012.

--> ''Slim sits down at the piano and hits two notes, two Cs, then two more, then one, then two, and suddenly the big burly bass-player wakes up from a reverie and realizes Slim is playing "C-Jam Blues" and he slugs in his big forefinger on the string and the bog booming beat begins...''
--> -- Part of one of the many sentences in ''On The Road''

''On The Road'' is a 1951 novel by JackKerouac. It is considered to be the masterwork of TheBeatGeneration, along with ''NakedLunch'' and ''{{Howl}}.'' The narrative takes place between 1947 and 1950. The book did not receive publication until 1957.

It is semi-autobiographical and relates events from the time Kerouac spent spent traveling and occasionally hitchhiking from coast to coast. However, because of legal reasons, the main character is actually an AuthorAvatar named [[SquatsInAName Sal Paradise]] who is a [[PerpetualPoverty semi-impoverished]] writer and recent divorcé. It also details his friendship with the [[TheMadHatter increasingly crazy]] Neal Cassady (whose name has been changed to Dean Moriarity) and other writers of TheBeatGeneration such as WilliamSBurroughs and AllenGinsberg who also show up with different names.

''On The Road'' has had a huge influence on modern culture with such personages as BobDylan, [[Music/TheDoors Jim Morrison]] and HunterSThompson, among others, citing it as an inspiration. It is also considered one of the quintessential American [[RoadMovie Road Trip]] novels, but then again, so is ''{{Lolita}}''.

* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Dean, Sal and Marylou.