It scares me how much On The Road is represntative of todays youth. At the end, Sal seems pretty satisfied with who he is and I do think that he matured a great deal from the beginning to the end. By the end of the book, I forgot that at the beginning I was reading a teenager, because by the end I thought it was an adult speaking. Even though Sal made this huge metamorphasis, it woudln't have been possible without his still immature Dean. I didn't really see any progress in Dean's maturity throught. For example, when they got to Mexico Dean was crazy about going everywhere and doing everything on the entire continent. He was happy, but still a little crazy. All in all, I was pretty satisfied with the end of the book, however, I wish Dean would have come a little farther in his maturity.