Born by the name Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac on the 12th of March, 1922, Jack Kerouac always had a story. Whether it was about travelling, religion, or just of times with his friends, Kerouac was never shy to share his tales with the public. Born from a French-Canadian background, Kerouac had an odd childhood. From a young age, Jack Kerouac lived in multiple different French-Canadian neighborhoods in Lowell, Massachusetts, living on the language of joual, a common dialect of many French-Canadian families. According to Ann Charter’s research into Kerouac’s life, “he didn’t learn to speak English fluently until he was six years old and started attending parochial school”(Charters 10). For the rest of his life, Kerouac had to find a way to balance
