"and in that far-off look in his eyes, that secret self-sigh, I saw he was back home again." (Kerouac, 52)
-This quote describes Japhy's feeling at the sight of Matterhorn mountaiin. Ray is watching Japhy and sees him at the sight of Matterhorn remember his home and sees Japhy's vulnerability around that. The quote also shows just how emotionally invested Japhy is in these hikes, and how this is deeply part of his life. In the quote Ray is realizing how seriously Japhy takes these hikes, and how serious it is for him to do it first hand like he was the original adventurer.
"straggling a bit occupying side and center and other side of the road like straggling infantrymen." (Kerouac, 55)
-This quote shows the three men on their way up the mountain walking on the road to the trail. The way he describes them as infantrymen makes you think of them as attacking the mountain...making it theirs. It also shows the way that each of them is going for themself by straggling, occupying different sides of the road, it just shows how in this moment before the initial climb they are all seperately analyzing their goals. Each having seperate desires for the climb, seperate dreams.
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