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Read the excerpt from On the Road. I began to learn from him as much as he probably learned from me. As far as my work was concerned he said, “Go ahead, everything you do is great.” He watched over my shoulder as I wrote stories, yelling, “Yes! That’s right! Wow! Man!” and “Phew!” and wiped his face with his handkerchief. “Man, wow, there’s so many things to do, so many things to write!” What does this excerpt demonstrate about Kerouac’s connection to the literary movement of the beat generation?

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Kerouac expresses original ideas and viewpoints that are exciting to read.

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The connection is shown through the way Kerouac freely expressed himself and told his view of the world in his stories.

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In his most important book, which would become the "hippie Bible," Kerouac talks about his seven-year journey across the US, with frequent descents to Mexico. Kerouac wrote it in just three weeks, with a typewriter and two rolls of paper (so you do not have to stop to put new sheets in the machine). His "avalanche-style", without concern for punctuation and paragraph, is a striking feature of the writers of the beat movement .

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