Jack Kerouac

A detailed Summary of Jack Kerouac

Born in the town of Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, Jack Kerouac was born to

Leo 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

against political correctness and stand up for what he truly believed in. Kerouac often

studied Buddhism, Kerouac took a strong liking to the religion and for a while considered

Jack wrote about his own life experiences and visions of his life. One could consider Jack

and the flaws in the American government. He voiced his opinions through his work and

Music styles such as pop and rock and many others stemmed from beat poetry, and artists

what creativity was all about, he knew he could embrace his own opinions and experiences

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to seventeen syllables but since the language

opinions on political issues, etc.

Haiku. The Japanese Haiku is strictly disciplined

involved in haiku poems, so he took it upon himself to develop his own writing style called

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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