What is the rising action of On the Road?

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...