Road Trips in Literature Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...

Road trips are known to be fun adventures. When someone says they are going on a road trip people expect them to go and see amazing places and then come back. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck and On the Road by Jack Kerouac are about road trips but these trips are not about the adventure. Duke from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Sal from On the Road and Steinbeck from Travels with Charley all go on road trips because of the American drive. I am also on the road and even thought it is not road trips I am moving around and it is because of the American drive. The American drive is the need to go and to be on the move and it started because people were not happy about their current†¦show more content†¦He sees Dean as a brother and that is one of the reasons why he went on the journey. He wanted to be by Dean because he thought Dean could give him new experiences he couldn’t get in New Jersey. He knew that he had to leave Jersey because he wanted to be happy and do more. Sal believed that â€Å"somewhere along the line I knew there’d be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me†(7). The road trip would bring vision and success to Sal’s life and it did just not the way he thought it would. He thought he would be best friends with Dean for the rest of his life and he would be successful and happy somewhere else other than New Jersey. He went on the journey and he realized he should not associate himself with Dean and that he was okay with his aunt. He needed to experience different things so he could understand how good it was before. The American drive is something that is in everyone including me. I understand Steinbeck, Duke’s and Sal’s viewpoint. They want to be in a different place and in a different situation because they are not happy where they are. The American drive for me is about success. I want to mo ve fromShow MoreRelated Art, Literature And Society From 1955-1970 Essay examples5829 Words   |  24 Pages Fear and Loathing in a Clockwork AgeAh! The noble search for identity. That intangible achievement that all artists lust after and lay in torment over. And during the post war era that struggle reached incredible magnitudes. The world cried out for legions of anti-heroes, who were only virtuous in their unapologetic and brutally honest lack of virtue. And the art world provided as many counter culture messiahs as was needed to quot;Damn the Manquot;. The Beats, hippies, and punks are evidence