Jack Kerouac
Born in the town of Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, Jack Kerouac was born toLeo and Gabrielle Kerouac, a French-Canadian couple in which Jack didn’t even learn to speak English until age 6, when he was enrolled in school. Jack Kerouac would aspire to be one of the most inspirational writers of his time and in American history. Although, through his younger years, and while he was in school, he took a more athletic approach to life. Jack played Football in high school and was among the popular crowd, despite his shy personality. Like many young and disinterested students, he would ditch school at least once a week, all while managing good grades in his classes. What was unusual about his behavior was that he didn’t ditch with his friends to go see girls or get into trouble, he went to the town library where he read books by Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, William Penn and scholarly books on Chess (he was on a chess team in school.) Jack was born as a third child, but lived as a second when his brother died of rheumatic fever at age nine. Jack was heartbroken. The real magic began when Jack started writing. Influenced by those he read about as a child in the Lowell Town Library,
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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