The rising action
is depicted primarily throughby Sal, who tells us of his journey west and back again, winding
across the United States in search of a higher intellectual or spiritual truth, looking to find
the Socratic "It," the shadow on the cave wall. is a roman
clef, which is to say a novel with a "key," and offers many hints of the fact that Sal
is a rough stand-in for , who wrote extensively about exploring America, mind-altering drugs and
substances, notions of Far East philosophy, and the business of making meaning. In On
the Road , we could consider the rising action as Sal crisscrossing the
country...
Thursday, 1 April 2010
What is the rising action of On the Road?
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