ormed. The once young and innocent Jim Morrison was now older and more harmful. Late in his sophomore year, Jim moved to Alexandria, Virginia. Her he met Tandy, his first girlfriend. Jim now ill mannered constantly horrified others, especially Tandy. He would make public scenes by kissing her feet or asking her to do ridiculous acts out loud. Tandy though, was not the only one subjected to Jim's "tests", his teachers suffered as well. "I asked him why he played games all the time," Tandy says today. "He said, 'You'd never stay interested in me if I didn't." Indeed that was the case not only with Tandy, but also at school. His peers now looked upon Jim as the ringleader. Everybody wanted to be like Jim, they all competed for his attention, "Jim's magnetism was becoming obvious". Right down to his expressions, his peers mimicked all of his actions. But Jim never led them like they wanted to be led. Jim once again started taking death-defying risks that he would also subject his brother to. He forced Andy to walk along an edge that hovered fifty feet above the ground. All of the risks that he subjected others to were ones that he was never afraid to complete. "Throughout his senior year his parents pressured Jim to apply to colleges, just as they badgered him into having his photograph taken for the high school yearbook". When graduation came around, Jim decided not to attend. Later on his parents succeeded in enrolling Jim at St. Petersburg Junior College in Florida. The instability and rootless ness of Jim Morrison's child hood, helped build a character that later became the emptiness of this great poet. It was also in high school that the intellectual side of Jim's unique mind started to emerge. The same year that he moved to Alameda, Jim stumbled across a new novel by Jack Kerouac. On the Road held Jim captive for hours upon hours. He also started to copy down paragraphs he liked into a spiral notebook that he woul...
