Word: jacke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zachariah? No, that won't do at all. I'll call you Jack...
...never be what she wants. I can't live with her. I'm disappointing her," he'd say. Jack always tried to please his mother. It seemed to eat away at him. He went off with the Beat Generation, but he always worried about his mother...
...JACK kept in touch with his Lowell friends, most of whom remained in Lowell to work at mills and support families. And the friends Kerouac made at Columbia were not the type his mother had hoped...
...Everything hurt the guy. Just a drizzly November day would zing him. Jack had everything. His mother tried to get him to associate with 'better' people...
...book's interviews unveil Kerouac's immense sensitivity to and faith in human beings. Carolyn Cassidy claimed that "Jack fell in love with every woman he saw," intimating that he was always worried about hurting his friends and the women he knew. Thus, we are shown a very shy man. Some of Kerouac's childhood friends say that he did not have many girlfriends during high school because his "shyness was always taken as conceit...