Essay About Kurt Donald Cobain And Day Of His Birth

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Aberdeen,
Washington, a small town southeast of Seattle is 108 miles long, and outlined
by an endless amount of trailer parks; past them are many acres of timberland,
blemished by stubbly scars, where loggers have been clear cutting. From
east the first thing seen is the unattractive Weyerhauser lumberyard leading
to the Wishkah River.
These days, the streets of Aberdeen, Washington are
looking like empty or boarded up storefronts. Business is booming for only
local pawnshops. One of the biggest growth industries in the country presently
the cultivation of Marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms, which people grow
in order to boost their meager or nonexistent incomes. It wasn?t always this
bad. Aberdeen used to once be a bustling seaport where
sailors used to stop
off at. Truth is, the town used to be one big prostitution centre.
This
is where on February.20th 1967 Kurt Donald Cobain was born. To homemaker
Wendy Cobain(nee Fradenburg) and mechanic Donald Cobain. His early influences
who soon became mentors to him were,
his mothers siblings Chuck and Mary.
From
the day of his birth to the day of his death Kurt Cobain
had problems, psychological
and otherwise. The problems just could not leave him alone. The Cobain?s
didn?t live in the best part of Aberdeen and
were not wealthy. They were
basically ?white trash posing as middle class? according to Kurt when asked
about his early childhood upbringing. Kurt?s major problems began at the
age of 8 in 1975. This was when his parents divorced. His mother admits
that both she and Don used the kids(sister Kim 5 at the time of divorce)
in the divorce and fought for custody. It?s been described as that a ?light
went out? in him, a light that he tried to recapture, but couldn?t.
Kurt
became angered at his parents for not being able to sort out their problems.
Throughout most of his childhood he was ashamed of his parents After the
divorce Kurt continued to live on with his mom in Aberdeen, for a year, but
his mom soon decided that she could not handle him. To cope, she shipped
him off to his dad in Montesano a smaller logging community 20 miles east
of Aberdeen. Even with his dad Kurt was unhappy. They didn?t get along
to well because Don pushed Kurt into sports which Kurt was not good at, which
caused more pressure on Kurt because Don was a jock. Don did not let Kurt
be a kid, he wanted him to be a little adult. He?d get irritated quickly,
and would whack Kurt over the head. One time when Kurt was 6, he threw Kurt
across the room Basically, Kurt had no father figure to look up upon. Despite
all of this Kurt was spoiled by Don and showered with material things that
Don could offer.
Kurt was then shattered again when Don got remarried
in February of 1978. Kurt and his step-mom did not get along. The longer
Kurt
lived with Don the worse things got. Don was determined to make Kurt
accept
the new family, so he got legal custody in attempt to make him
part of the
family. Don then gave up on Kurt because he was convinced
that his mom brainwashed
him. Eventually, Don couldn?t deal with Kurt.
Kurt was passed between 3
different sets of Aunts and Uncles and his
Grandparents on his dad?s side.
In school Kurt did not do well. He was seen as an outcast, being
shifted
around between 4 schools in Aberdeen and Montesano. While still in school,
Kurt was friends with Myer Loftin, an openly gay student. He enjoyed the
conflict he caused. He thinks it was then, that he almost found his identity
true identity. Around Grade.11; the moving around a lot was only a small
part of the problems What led to his eventual drop out of school in May of
graduating year, was his intense hate of the teachers.
He would fantasise
killing them in front of the class.
Wendy seeing all of this decided
that her traumas were worse than Kurts, because she had just dumped an abusive
boyfriend. She was still focused on doing good by her son. So, she simply
passed her son
on to live with her brother Chuck. Kurt by then was distraught
about
moving from relative to relative. In May of 1984, when Kurt was 17,
Wendy