Part one of term paper
“The program for this evening is not new. You’ve seen it thru and thru. Your birth, your life, and death. You might recall all of the rest. (Did you have a good life when you died?) Enough to base a movie on” (The Doors)? Jim Morrison’s life was plenty to base a movie on, along with multiple books and magazine articles. His lif ...

Part two of term paper
... therefore he was not home often. This left Jim’s mother, Clara, to raise him. When Jim was three his mother gave birth to his sister Anne. In 1946 they moved to Washington DC for six months and then to Albuquerque, New Mexico for a year, according to Irwin Stambler, author of The Encyclopedia of Pop Rock and Soul. In 1947, when Jim was four, the Morrison family was driving through a desert in New Mexico when they came upon a car wreck. “The first time I discovered death,” said Morrison ...