The America of Allen Ginsberg and the Vanity of Kerouac's Puluoz In the words and lives of the Beat Generation, one theme is evident: America, everywhere , from Allen Ginsberg's "America" ​​to Jack Kerouac's love for Thomas Wolfe. Although opinions about America differ, they all find some reason to focus on this land. Ginsberg, in his poem “America,” makes a point that not many of us may consider obvious: “It occurs to me that I am America. I'm talking to myself again. Each of us makes up America, and when we complain about something that's wrong, we're complaining about ourselves. Having been raised by his mother as a communist and being homosexual, Ginsberg has found many things wrong with America, and he makes his share of complaints, but ultimately decides: “America, I'm putting my weird sidekick behind the wheel. " Ginsberg did not want to sit back and watch everything go wrong. He would do something, despite the fact that he was not the ideal American. Kerouac's vision of America was completely different from Ginsberg's vision. Kerouac saw America as a beautiful place, with many unexplored regions for himself and the rest of the country's population. Kerouac attributed his love for America to Thomas Wolfe. In Kerouac's book Vanity of Puluoz he said that Wolfe made him realize that America did not it was a sad place to work and struggle, it was a poem. If everyone thought of America as a poem rather than a place where we only come to live, work and die, this country would be the ideal place Kerouac wanted it to be. The “Night of the Wolfeans” was an event in the lives of the Beats that marked them for a long time. It brought together all the feelings of the Beat towards America. They were divided into two categories: “Wolfeans” and “non-Wolfeans”. Wolfeans". Kerouac and Hal Chase were straight, all-American guys who believed in America, the perfect image of the American citizen. The non-Wolfeans (William Burroughs and Ginsberg) were also known as “Baudelaireans” or “Black Priests”. They wanted to destroy the Wolfeans and everything they believed in. The Beat felt that everyone fell into one of two categories. One thing all the Beats agreed on was that to truly become a great writer, you had to be considered an American writer.