Salem

English

14 September, 09:54

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 diction contributes to his writing style?

A. Kerouac uses academic terms to give his writing an intellectual quality.

B. Kerouac uses youthful slang to give his writing a rebellious quality.

C. Kerouac uses location names to give his writing a historical quality.

D. Kerouac uses abstract vocabulary to give his writing a detached quality.