Christopher Lewis Easy Rider
From two different medias and set in to different environments, the movie Easy Rider and the book On the Road by Jack Kerouac, when juxtaposed, show the views of movement in the 1950s-60s. The young are restless and need a change and in ten years become the middle aged not quite ready to lie down their wild days and continue the careless life of being one with culture and the world. Easy rider shows the world from a motorcycle, through hills and nature. On the Road presents a world of free roaming through cities and enclosed in cars. Other than drugs crimes weren’t committed and showed the escape into society as a hard life, but one that is the natural escape from the womb that is home. Easy Rider is from the point of view of being on a motorcycle, the closest to nature while still being apart from it. But being close to nature crimes are committed as is present in nature, the strong feed off of the weak. As humanity moves towards nature crime becomes more apparent while the evolution of man into city culture brings a more peaceful coexistence between man.