Outline

I.                   Sal has a good stable life and yet is bored with it and sees no meaning in his writing and so he goes on the adventure with Dean.

A.   Sal is married and has a stable life with a writing career ahead of him but loses interest in his everyday life.

a.      He meets Dean Moriarity and falls under the impression that Dean’s life is the most fun and easiest going life to have.

b.     Sal leaves his wife and decided to follow Dean to the West to try to find some leftover fun and adventure in his life.

II.                Dean has no sense of direction in life and just bounces from one place to another to try to squeeze some enjoyment from whatever he does, and Sal likes that kind of life for a while.

A.   Even though Sal starts off following Dean, Dean is nearly impossible to follow because of his nomadic tendencies which make him last a very short time in places.

a.      Sal meets new people when he gets left by Dean and connects his new and better friends to the fact that he is friends with Dean.

                                                                                     i.      Sal decides that Dean is getting him friendships and adventures, even with his absence, and so he keeps on trailing the troublemaking Dean.

III.             Dean ruins all their plans to go to Italy, pretty much screws Camille and the new girl over, and although Sal is the only person that has stuck by his side the whole time while everyone else left him, Dean leaves Sal really sick in Mexico.

A.   Dean is a simply selfish person and has no real regard for anyone but himself, even the best friend that stuck by his side when everyone else hated him,

a.      Sal has messed up friendships with other better people just so he could stick by Dean’s side and Dean is as ungrateful as can be.

                                                                                     i.      Sal realizes how much of an ass Dean really is and finally realizes how much of a scumbag he is, but he can’t help but to keep loving his best friend whom he calls his “brother”.

b.     Sal sees how Dean is with women and how badly he treats them and somewhat follows Dean’s behaviors and becomes a disrespectful player as well.

IV.            Sal starts realizing that Dean is somewhat of a scumbag and that his personality gets old and at one point or another, he must grow up and realize he needs the stable life he once had and threw out.

A.   Through the whole adventure, Sal sort of got the message that “You don’t really know what you have until it’s gone”

a.      He wants to start settling down again and having a stable life.

B.     Dean’s inability to find himself and make of himself a desperately lost soul.

a.      Sal can finally see how good he had it at first and how mind wrecking this life of hopeless soul searching was.

                                                                                     i.      He understands that it was never that he was lost, but he just needed someone with a worst situation to make him understand how good of a situation he really had.