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Kerouac p.77

“All he needs is his rucksack with all of those little plastic bags of dries food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this.”

This quote really tells how happy Japhy is with his life. He has almost nothing to his name, yet he is as happy and probably happier that people who have lots of money and don’t have to worry about anything. He doesn’t worry about anything, but he does it without having lots of money.


Kerouac p.84

“ ‘Now there’s the Karma of theses three men here: Japhy Rhyder gets to his triumph mountaintop and makes it, I almost make it and have to give up and huddle in a bloody cave, but the smartest of the them all is that poet’s poet lying down there with his knees crossed to the sky chewing on a flower dreaming by a gurgling plage, goddammit they’ll never get me up here again.’”

As Ray looks down from the mountain, he realizes that he has lost on this hike. Japhy has reached the top of the mountain, and gets the triumph of success. He has reached the goal that they went on this hike for. But Morely he realizes is the smartest. He stayed down below, and did not have to work hard for nothing, like Ray.