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The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test Summary

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Analytical Review Sheet for The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe
Due date: Any time up to and including Friday, May 5, at 12 noon

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What is the background of the author? What are his qualifications to write this book?
The author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe, was born on March 2, 1931 in Richmond, Virginia, where Wolfe would grow up to be an all-star student and athlete at St. Christopher’s Episcopal School for Boys. After his graduation from high school in 1947, Wolfe decided to turn down his admission to Princeton University to attend Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Wolfe majored in English and practiced writing as a sports editor at the college newspaper, while helping to establish a literary magazine, Shenandoah. Wolfe enrolled in Yale University’s American studies doctoral …show more content…

Wolfe’s first main point was to emphasize the psychedelic movement’s disillusionment with society during the 1960s, which is clearly seen by Ken Kesey’s urgings to use LSD to transcend reality and bring a higher state of consciousness to those individuals involved. Wolfe’s second main point was to highlight the desire to escape, which is clearly seen in many of the Merry Pranksters, especially Mountain Girl, who escapes a mundane life in New York to join Kesey and the psychedelic movement. Wolfe’s last point was to show equally the darkness and light in Kesey’s story to educate people about the good and bad sides of the 1960s psychedelic movement, which is clearly seen by Wolfe’s descriptions of the enlightenment that LSD brings as well as the bad trips that could leave people wounded for

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