I chose this quotation because I feel that this passage is significant in explaining Keroac's view of the journey he is just beginning to take at this point. It seems to be a metaphor for himself as he embarks on his trip across the country into "unknown waters," if you will. He is the rose being dropped in the river, soft, fragile, and unexperienced, at the source of the water's journey, which is his home. There seems to be necessity and purpose in dropping the rose in the water and also in its subsequent journey to prepare for a rougher life in the more turbulent sea. Keroac implies that this relatively short time on the road is a pleasant yet brief gift to see a great deal of places before life will perhaps no longer allow it.
My question is, what do you think Keroac is expecting to discover about life, about himself, about others on this trip his is taking?
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