Jack Kerouac is one of the most eminent American writers, who was born in a family which has French descent. He is famous as a pioneer of a movement called “Beat Generation”. His parents were devoutly Catholic and had an enormous impact on Kerouac’s identity. In Mexican Fellaheen, Kerouac depicts a pristine country, Mexico, compared to a country that is civilized and has too many rules, the US. He also regards bullfighting as a brutal deed and associates a bull with Jesus.

In a class I am taking this semester, I got a taste of a novel that represents Beat Generation for the first time. I felt that the book was too hard to understand because of its unique style of writing and containing Kerouac’s philosophy in it. I also wondered why Kerouac immersed himself in Buddhism although he was born and raised as Catholic. In Mexican Fellaheen, Kerouac expresses a vision of an endless universe that is teeming with nothingness and that never comes to an end. He might want to rebel Christianity that had been an important role in his life with Buddhism.  Those two religions had a prodigious influence on his identity and his works such as Mexican Fellaheen.