jim morrison
...h ranking military official that was often time moved from base to base. Because of this Jim and his siblings never attended one school for more than two years. Just between middle school and high school he had attended eight different schools. This made it difficult for Jim to ever make a close friend while in school and made him somewhat of a loner and thinker with a big imagination. All the moving around also brought many different experiences to Jim, both good and bad. Something Jim claims “was one of the most important parts of my life” happened when he was young. He was on the way to Santa Fe with his family when they saw a truckload of Pueblo Indians whose truck tipped over. The passengers had laid bleeding to death on the road before help could arrive. One of the passengers had been a shaman and Jim had always believed that the Indians spirit had entered his own soul on that day. This incident became the basis for many of his songs, poetry, stories, and thoughts. Jim’s father also brought his children up under very strict discipline and tried to engrain in them the traditional values he stood for. This created a lot of problems between the two, especially since Jim was a freethinker who believed that revolt towards authority would bring individual freedom. Jim was a sensitive kid and the problems his father kept him even more withdraw and isolated. It wasn’t unless he was onstage that he actually felt alive and free was able to let go of everything else. It was during high school and after being forced to attend college by his father that Jim began to read and crave knowledge, which further helped shape his mind. Jim loved to read and started reading everything about poetry, philosophy, and writing. One of his English professors recalls ”…that he read more any other student in the class and also understood more then anyone else”. He read everything from Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, to Kenneth Patchen, Michael McClure, Carlo Marx, and Gregory Corso. He loved to read books on philosophy from the 1600’s and 1700’s, which h...