What Is Identity

What is identity? Some people say is the set of behavioral or personal characteristics by which an individual is recognizable as a member of a group. Those behaviors and characteristics u develop over the course of time. While reading this book often we stop and start thinking is this book based on describing each persons identity ore a hole group? John Clellon Holmes is describing the struggle of this your writer that is trying to get his book published and the also tells us about his friends Hobbes(Holmes), Pasternak(Cerouac), Stofsky(Ginsberg) and Kennedy(Cassady). The book is based on this post Word War II in New York where parties, booze, discussions, drugs, and sex punctuate life.

There are a loaf of issues that they confront them like believing in God it is shoed in the discussion between Hobbes and Stofsky . Stofsky believes in god "I must tell you... It's about God, you see. I've been reading and thinking and pursuing it for days, and I've decided to believe in god", but on the other hand Hobble thinks that god is cruel "His Will or ours, why should we bother with Him at all?...No, the only God I'll ever accept is a cruel God, and I wont worship Him". This conversation takes place because the Beats didn't believe in God because they say if there's so much suffering and depression why isn't God doing anything about it. That is why their life evolves around drugs parties and sex. If they would of believed in god they would have a different approach on life and their lifestyle.

On other characteristic of the Beat generation was using drugs either just to have ore to make the everyday problems go away."Yes, yes, man! That is right! You got it! But everything's great on tea! Everything is the greatest. "

They spent most of their time in Times Square cafeterias, be-bop joints, night-long