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7 pages in length. There are as many different ways to experience freedom as there are explanations to define it. To some, it is the chance to spend but a few precious hours each week away from the harried existence doing something of personal interest; to others, it is complete detachment from conventionality that affords an opportunity to experience wild abandon. The latter interpretation is what compels Sal & Dean of Kerouac's On the Road and Wyatt & Billy of Hopper's Easy Rider to embrace the meaning of travel as being equal with freedom and the pursuit of an elusive "something" they perceive their lives to be missing that will magically materialize at one stop or another along the route. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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hours each week away from the harried existence doing something of personal interest; to others, it is complete detachment from conventionality that affords an opportunity to experience wild abandon.
The latter interpretation is what compels Sal & Dean of Kerouacs On the Road and Wyatt & Billy of Hoppers Easy Rider to embrace the meaning of travel as being
equal with freedom and the pursuit of an elusive "something" they perceive their lives to be missing that will magically materialize at one stop or another along the route.
...Road films have become progressive by depicting the search for new personal and national identities. Continuing controversy over Easy Rider suggests that such ideological stalemates are common and may
be influenced by the choice of where to pinpoint the origin of the genre... (Morris, 2003, p. 24). Time is no longer
of the essence for Wyatt and Billy as Wyatts first symbolic gesture of the road trip was to cast off his watch. Unlike Sal and Dean who thought they
had the time and patience to locate their intangible "something," Wyatt and Billy are prepared to settle into the trip and stay there for as long as it may take
to complete the search. All along the route, the two men are constantly being placed in contrasting positions between their lives as they are and those they come to
covet, such as the rancher and the freedom he has to work and live upon the land. These subtle yet clear comparisons indicate what resides at the crux of
each mans quest: to locate the "thing" that will transform them from their lives to what they perceive as a finer existence. At the same time, the communes representation
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