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Conforming Opinions
In the early 1950’s a few young writers started a movement that was carefree and rebellious, it was considered anti-establishment. These writers became known as the Beats or the Beat Generation. There were four men considered to be the original Beats, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. The person that came up with the term beat was Jack Kerouac, he said it in 1948 while talking to his friend Clellon Holmes. The exact words were: \"So I guess you might say we\'re a beat generation.\" Holmes wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine, which he titled “The Beat Generation.” This article really got the term the Beats and it’s association with these writers out into the public eye. Two of the most integral books to come out of this literary movement were “Naked Lunch”, by William Burroughs and “On The Road”, by Jack Kerouac.
When you look at Naked Lunch you see a story of an addict and his journey from New York to Tangiers, then into the imaginary Interzone. The Interzone is this sort of hellish place where good and evil fight for control of all of humanity. If you look deeper into the book you see that it is really poking fun at American culture and society. The story is told from the perspective of a junkie and through him he looks at drugs and the social problem they have become. The perspective he gives is that addiction is not the problem but the way society reacts to addiction and addicts in general. He goes on to say that the drug bureaus created to stop these problems are really addicts as well cause they are feeding on all of this. The solution would be to save the junkie from his addiction and not punishing him for it. If there are no longer addicts there is no need for pushers.
The story starts out with the junkies’ journey from New York to Tangiers and his further decent into addiction. The book goes from the real world of this addict to a...
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