On The Road a Formalist look

On The Road The story of On the Road is about a black hobo during the depression trying to find somewhere to sleep for the night. In the story we find many symbols and underline meanings dealing with the social aspects of the depression years. I believe that this story dealt mainly with the civil rights movement and will cover that aspect in this paper. First we will look at the character of Sargeant he …

…civil rights. This issue was resolved by showing the struggle to get civil rights. As you can see there are many symbols and hidden meanings dealing with civil rights. I believe that the whole story was about the civil rights movement and the struggle that blacks are going to have in trying to accomplish there goal. I think that Langston Hughes wrote this to get blacks to realize the struggle and not to give up.