Question

Read the excerpt from On the Road.One day I was hanging around the campus and Chad and Tim Gray told me Dean was staying in a cold-water pad in East Harlem, the Spanish Harlem. Dean had arrived the night before, the first time in New York, with his beautiful little sharp chick Marylou; they got off the Greyhound bus at 50th Street and cut around the corner looking for a place to eat and went right in Hector’s, and since then Hector’s cafeteria has always been a big symbol of New York for Dean.Which statement best describes how Kerouac’s use of syntax contributes to his writing style?Kerouac’s use of syntax gives his writing the intellectual quality of formal academic discourse.Kerouac’s use of syntax gives his writing the journalistic tone of a newspaper article.Kerouac’s use of syntax gives his writing the natural ease and flow of informal conversation.Kerouac’s use of syntax gives his writing the discipline and complexity of traditional literature.

Answer 1

The topics of non-traditional narrative, spiritual inquiry, adventures, sexual liberation and explicit writing style were typical for beat generation. We can observe some of these characteristics, especially non-conformist narrative style in the excerpt. The book itself is an adventure book which it could also be noted as an explanation for the period.

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Answer 2

The answer is Kerouac’s use of syntax gives his writing the natural ease and flow of informal conversation.

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Jack Kerouac, one of the most iconic figures related to Beat Generation, developed a very particular way of writing, defined by himself as "spontaneous prose", in which according to his own words, he tried to catch his own mind and its ideas, while his texts were far behind from his thoughts, again, according to what he said. In his "Belief & Technique for Modern Prose", he pointed out the idea of removing "literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition" in order to get a flow influenced by an informal conversation, among other things like jazz. On the other hand, Kerouac never looked for acceptance in academic circles, nor tried to be related to the traditional literature, starting with the topics he talked about, and also his way of writing skipping a couple of grammar rules to get his own style. If related to other genre, Kerouac’s writings could be more related to a diary or an autobiography than a journal.