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 explains how Kerouac’s writing style reflects the values of the beat generation?

Answer 1

His free-form writing style is nonconformist.

Answer 2

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.