BookRags.com Literature Guides Literature Guides Criticism/Essays Criticism/Essays Biographies Biographies My Bibliography Periodic Table U.S. Presidents Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
Research Anything:        
History | Encyclopedias | Films | News | Create a Bibliography | More... Login | Register | Help

Search "Desolation Angels"

Study Guide Navigation
 


Desolation Angels Study Guide

Print-Friendly  Order the PDF version  Order the RTF version
by Jack Kerouac
About 100 pages (29,865 words)
Desolation Angels (novel) Summary

Bookmark and Share

Book I, Part I - Desolation in Solitude: Chapters 41 - 47 Summary

Kerouac dreams of being in Cody's kitchen foraging for food. Cody's two young sons in the dream comment on Kerouac's noisemaking while he searches and the author is compared to a rat. Evelyn comes home and makes a disapproving remark about Kerouac's choice of food.

The dream switches to Frisco. Kerouac peruses the wine selection in the stores and happens to see a newspaper story about reformatory boys in Washington, D.C. The boys had committed crimes because they were smitten with a girl who flaunted herself in front of them, using feminine wiles to get what she wants. The girl is a tease. In Kerouac's eyes, the girl is a bitch who will most likely end up getting pregnant and being taken care.....

This is a free excerpt of 135 words. This section contains 970 words. This study guide contains 29,865 words (approx. 100 pages at 300 words per page).

Read the rest of this Literature Guide with our Desolation Angels Access Pass.

Copyrights
Desolation Angels from BookRags and Gale's For Students Series. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

Join BookRagslearn moreJoin BookRags


About BookRags | Customer Service | Report an Error | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy