If you look for more information about this book, or if you are interested in the style of life described in a book, please, visit to find out more needed and interesting information. When they were eating at the restaurant, they thought if their religion is that much important to suffer or not. Nevertheless, even these heroes have doubts. They were serious in questions like that. Also, Ray says that while eating heroes buy only needed thing without being under passions to eat something tastier. For example, Japhy’s place of living is showed as a very tiny place, from all three rooms that he has, he uses only one. Ray adores our main heroes for their simple lifestyle. In our book, we see the love for simplicity as well. We all know even without books that Dharma’s style means simple style. Also, we see how the author showed middle class – people from which try to survive all day all night. Even policemen, hunters all of them were enemies. We see it immediately in the first lines of the book after the phrase – “hopping freight trains.” While the story continues we see how many conformists’ doings are against the main hero and his friends. As all author’s characters stay against traditions author still tries to normalize or approve everything. That is why it is no surprise that the biggest enemy for Dharma Bums is soft, mindless belief. The Beat Generation was a period that has so many differences that nowadays reader can hardly understand.

The book shows several important themes, and we will discuss a few of them. Main hero’s aim is to find what a real “Buddhist” context is.

The book is the representative of Kerouac’s life and ideas, his relationships with people, outdoors (hiking, mountaineering and hitchhiking). The Protagonists of the story is Ray Smith who was the prototype of the author himself and Japhy Ryder who was made from the author Gary Snyder. What is the basis of the novel, because everything has its beginning? Events from “On the road” became its basis. Also, this book had a great impact on the culture of hippie in 1960s. An author who performed is a very famous one – Jack Kerouac.

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