1. Some important Beat authors were:
-Jack Keroucac
-Allen Ginsberg
-Neal Cassady
-William S. Burroughs.
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| "Follow your inner moonlight, down hide the madness." Allen Ginsberg |
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| "I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men." Neal Cassady |
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| "Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." William S. Burroughs |
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| "One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple." Jack Kerouac |
2.The Beat generation originated after world war two, things started to develop and people in homes started to have Tv's and became more advanced. Simple things started to be ignored and left out. Anti-Communism started to arise. The people who started the beat generation were fed up with this materialism and how egocentric people started to become. They came together in the neighborhood of the Columbia university and then migrated to San Francisco were they met new people.
3.For the general public the beat generation was seen as hippies and as a crime. They so them as abnormal crazy people who did not have goals in life. Also they were seen as radicals and rebells. However it managed to change the thinking of a lot of people and was a big influence to the american culture.
4.What they offered to the nation was a new way of thinking and seeing things. It brought a complete new perspective of life. In addition it influenced they way people dressed and looked. For example it brought new spiritual liberation to many different cultures, they wanted to remove the legal restrictions of the use of marihuana and other drugs, it wanted peace, developed different religions and finally it wanted respect of land and indigenous people.
5. The main characteristics of Beatniks were:
Men primary used to wear cotton shirts berretts and scarfs. Also they liked horizontal striped shirts, plain sweaters and finally men liked a lot to wear black even black shoes and big sunglasses were a key accessory. Men grew a big beard because it contradicted what people did at that era like a men with a clean haircut.
On the other hand women usually wore messy hair usually plain without any kind of adorn as they considered it materialistic. Black women were preferred. Berets and scarfs were essential for a beatnik woman.
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| Jack Kerouac Quote |
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| Beatnick style, All black |
6. The Beatnik era have influenced our present culture by giving a broad range of ways to think differently than others do. Maybe in the sense of creativeness it has done a good influence. On the other side the use of drugs I don't think it is a good influence on this generation and the idea of inhering them is not good to human health. More over the beat generation has created new ideas for people to choose and there is more liberty in the way of thinking. People are more open and less discriminative against other cultures. I think that there's is more respect and liberty.
