1. ELIT 48C CLASS 32

2. AGENDA
 Author Intro: Jack Kerouac
 Exam #2

3. The Beats
Jack Kerouac

4. Jack Kerouac
BIRTH DATE: March 12, 1922
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
PLACE OF BIRTH: Lowell, Massachusetts
DEATH DATE: October 21, 1969
Jack Kerouac
PLACE OF DEATH: St. Petersburg, Florida
EDUCATION: Columbia University
OCCUPATION: Journalist, Author, Poet

5. Jack Kerouac was an American writer best known for
the novel On the Road, which became an American
classic, pioneering the Beat Generation in the 1950s.
We are reading an excerpt from his later novel Big
Sur, which depicts Kerouac’s challenges with dealing
with his own success as a published writer.
The power of Kerouac’s writing comes from two
distinct sources. The one that has been recognized
by most commentators was Kerouac’s extremely
incisive, essentially instinctive ability to register the
first crest of a wave of cultural change that was about
to break over the American continent. The other, less
accepted source is the solid background in literature
that Kerouac brought to his earliest work.

6. • You have the rest of the class time to
take the exam.
• Please use your own lined paper for the
exam.
• Please bring me both your answer sheet
and the exam page on your way out.
Exam

7. HOMEWORK
 Read Jack Kerouac pp. 351-53
 Read From Big Sur pp. 353-72
 Post #30: QHQ