How does Jack Kerouac's On the Road relate to history?

Question

It seems more like fiction to me. It was assigned in my AP US HIstory class, but I think it belongs in AP English or something. I don't know.

Answer 1

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Kerouac's novel is an iconic work of Beat literature. The Beat movement was an important part of 20th century American literary history. And literary history is one crucial aspect of history. Literature comments on the culture from which it emerges, and is sometimes influential enough to change people's thinking, change the culture, and thus alter the course of history.

Answer 2

It's a true story and a picture of America and the attitudes of it's people in a certain period of time.