Jim Morrison: The Lizard King
Jim Morrison said once, “A Doors concert is a public meeting called by us for a special dramatic discussion. When we perform, we’re participating in the creation of a world and we celebrate that with the crowd.”(Hopkins, XI). As in the previous the Doors were a great band who performed and entertained for millions of screaming fans during their years on top of the charts. To make things even better, they, the Doors, were probably nothing without lead singer, Jim Morrison. Morrison a man, who lived through many hardships, lived a troubled life, which included drugs, women, and many parties. To tell a story of this man’s life is to be an interesting journey but in order to do this we ...
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Jim’s mother, Clara, met Steve at a Navy dance that was held when she went to visit her younger sister in Hawaii. Jimmy, that’s what his parents called him while he was young; while traveling through New Mexico with his parents in late 1946, “…experienced what he would later dramatically describe as ‘The most important moment of my life”(6). Steve drove by an accident in which Jim saw two Indian men who were dying on the side of the road. Jim was frantically crying and trying to go help them. His father became tired of Jim’s sobbing over what he had seen so he persuaded Jim that it had only been a dream. “Years later Jim told his friends that as his father’s car pulled away from the intersection, an Indian died and his soul passed into Jim’s body”(6). When he had gotten a little older in 1953, Jim, was decent looking, slightly overweight and quite a charmer. In fact, He became the president of his fifth grade class. Still, though he was appreciated for some things, Jim was ...
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to the Cocoran Art Gallery in Washington. On that day Jim began by torturing Tandy by removing one of her shoes and socks only to give it the slightest peck of a kiss. Later he coerced Tandy into kissing the buttocks of a marble statue that was out in the courtyard; she wouldn’t do it but asked why he pestered her so with these weird things that he did. Morrison said, “You would never stay interested in me if I didn’t”(15). Jim pulled many odd and elaborate stunts on teachers, friends, and his family. Though Jim pulled many stunts that others would call very undesirable, he was a smart young man who had a great deal of reading experience and actually understood books that the other ...
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