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. which is a key feature of kerouac’s syntax that contributes to his writing style? the use of contrasting, varied sentences the use of long, uninterrupted sentences the use of short, direct sentences the use of unpunctuated, experimental sentences