Question

what does the term beat as in beat generation actually refer to? Describe how the author of the article: "This is the Beat Generation" in its various facets. How well do the two examples of Beat Generation writes the embody the author's characterizations of the Beat Generation?

Answer 1

The term "Beat", as is "Beat Generation", refers to a litteracy moventment created by authors, that helped make Americas culture and politics, after World War II. Most authors who worked in this involvment published their work in the 1950's. The Beat movement involved hippies that were a part of counterculter in the 1960's.

            John Clellon Holmes is the writer of this artical, he published in the New York Times magazine on, November 16, 1952. His meaning of Beat is influenced by meeting a young rebilous girl who wanted to smoke pot. All of the people who were considered beat were not wanting to be slave wages, soliders, and get jobs. They sold weed to each other and traveled by hitch hiking or walking.

            The term "beat" also means sacred and holy. It was a term to decribe homeless people. Hippies term, came from the word hip. These authors studied these people. They were interesting and had experienced things outside of regular society. What I mean by that is what America at the time had to offer people who lived in the Nation. They had limited oppertunities. People were against living a normal society life, did drugs, protested the wars, and wanted black equallity.

            Most of the Beat people, were put into a lable of being just homeless. I think that it is a term that can be used but the real truth of who those people were, was sick of the government and living among themselfs for survial instead. No one technically has to get a job.

            My father is a beat. He is disabled. He lives in the woods and cooks for hippies. They trade rocks, instead of money. They eat grass and berries from the gound. Most of them are vegan. They sing songs, do drugs, and are the best friends that I have ever met. I live my own life in society, raising a baby, working two jobs. The live off the land. I don't think hippies are homeless, druggies. They are people exerising their birthing rights to the land. I believe these authors see this as well.