Cultural Minority

Poverty and Road Literature

In studying the road from an indigent perspective, it was found that their perspective is quite a unique one. Without the same means as many other people, the road takes a rather important meaning. For this group project, novels from John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, and Bill Bryson were studied. Each novel took a slightly different perspective, but all were invariably the perspective of an indigent. In each of these novels there could be seen a particular common theme...

Common Theme

A major common theme our group has discovered is that poor people see the road as an opportunity to better their situation in life. This opportunity manifests itself in very different ways depending on the work of literature and the author.

Individual Research

Hank

Will

Andrew

Sarah

Christopher

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Link to class page Born to Run