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Introduction to Literature of Rebellion in the Twentieth Century

Question 1 • (25-26) Swierczynski -- English 11 - 4th 9 Weeks Section 2

Read the excerpt from On the Road.In those days he really didn’t know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the wonderful possibilities of becoming a real intellectual, and he liked to talk in the tone and using the words, but in a jumbled way, that he had heard from “real intellectuals”—although, mind you, he wasn’t so naïve as that in all other things, and it took him just a few months with Carlo Marx to become completely in there with all the terms and jargon. What does this excerpt demonstrate about the culture of the beat generation?

Answer
A
Beats were often young people who had spent time in jail.
B
Beats remained detached from the world around them.
C
Beats wanted to fit into society’s traditional way of life.
D
Beats developed their own unique way of communicating.
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