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Jim Morrison; From Boy To Legend

Jim Morrison; From Boy to Legend

"hope is just a word

when you think in

Table Cloths

Laughter will not end

her funny feeling

or assuage our

strange desire

Children will be born"

Jim Morrison


Jim Morrison is often thought of as a drunk musician. He is also portrayed to many as an addict

and another 'doped up' rock star. These negative opinions project a large shadow on the many positive

aspects of this great poet. Jim's music was influenced heavily by many famous authors. You must cast aside

your ignorance and look behind the loud electric haze of the sixties music. You must wipe your eyes and

look through the psychedelic world of LSD. Standing behind these minor flaws, you will see a young and

very intellectual poet named Jim Morrison.

Jim Morrison's distraught childhood was a contributing factor to Jim's fortune and his fate. As a

young child, Jim experienced the many pains of living in a military family. Having to move every so often,

Jim and his brother, and sister never spent more than a couple of years at a particular school. Jim attended

eight different schools, grammar and high, throughout his schooling career. This amount of traveling made

it hard for a young child to make many friends. In high school, Jim had an especially hard time. The only real

friend he made was a tall but overweight classmate with a sleepy voice named Fud Ford. Although there

seems to be many negative aspects of Jim's child hood, many positive did arise.

The traveling done by the Morrison family brought Jim through may different experiences and

situations. For instance, while driving on a highway from Santa Fe with his family, he said he experienced

the most important moment of his life. The Morrisons came upon an overturned truck of dying Pueblo

Indians. This moment influenced Jim and later became the basis of many of his songs, poetry, stories, and

thoughts. Jim...