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  • The Dharma Bums

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    A semi-autobiographical work, The Dharma Bums focuses on the adventures of Ray Smith, an up and coming writer who is also a Buddhist and a mountain climber. Throughout the novel, Smith searches for enlightenment and attempts to live a simpler life. He meets the poet Japhy Ryder. The two divide their time between major parties at Ryder's shack and spending time in nature, climbing Matterhorn and hiking the coast. At the end, Ryder heads to a monastery while Smith prepares to spend the summer on Desolation Peak.

  • Seekers in Dharma Bums

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    There are many ways to identify a seeker There is a hunger in their eyes a look of inquisitiveness and often skepticism They are looking for the answer and that search is rarely interrupted Every experience and every moment is analyzed and scrutinized for its application to their lives In Jack Kerouacs Dharma Bums Viking Press1959 we have a story chock full of seekers From the narrator Ray and his fellow bums to the poets and people he meets along his journeys across the country and back again

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    Japhy do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored Because if so he would have to be mean Pg 153 Japhy and Ray are extremely critical of religion in general specifically Christianity Their cynical attitude towards religion results in a biased and pessimistic portrayal of Christianity There is a sense of communion between the Dharma Bums and a sense of pity for the rest of the world This bias is apparent in the quote mentioned earlier as Ray describes God as mean and it

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