Jake Morgendorffer: Difference between revisions

Jake's time in military school further traumatized him, as his parents refused to visit him and all but forgot about him until graduation ("[[Of Human Bonding]]"). [[Corporal Ellenbogen]] and the Commandant of Cadets seemed to target him specifically, and he was regularly bullied by many of the other cadets (including being hung from the flagpole by his underpants for a time and being made to eat his dress socks by "the big guys"). His letters home from military school show him becoming increasingly broken and bitter, fromfirst hisasking timeto there,be told what he did wrong so he won't do it again and writingdescending into vicious screeds against his father;. heHe forgives his mother though, viewing her as having no choice but to go along with "Mad Dog's" ideas. HeJake wasdid in the Color Guard during this time, and put on a Leadership Platoon Reaction Course. He had ahaveone friend called: [[Randy]], (sent to the Ridge for putting his fist through a wall), and who, went AWOL after four years, went AWOL;. Jake wanted to go with him but didn't to deny his father "the satisfaction" of him flunking out. Apart from all that, he wasn't very good at being a cadet: he failed at many basic tasks, and in four years he racked up 98 demerits "but they still won't kick me out". ("[[The Daria Diaries]]")

Afterwards, Jake enrolled at [[Middleton College]] thanks to funding from his family, thus not being shipped off to the [[Vietnam War]] ("[[The Daria Diaries]]") - though he once claimed to a veteran that he wasn't drafted because the "war was winding down" ("[[My Night at Daria's]]"). Around the time of the funding, Jake had been threatening to 'drop out' and be a hippie as soon as his father couldn't legally stop him; this is probably why Mad Dog sent him to college, mistakenly thinking that'd stop him (Jake promised to "really... hit the books" there). ("Diaries") HeBased wason arresteddates given in summerthe 1969episodes asand a student ("[[That Was Thenbooks, This Is Dumb]]")and graduated in 1972; if Middleton has the traditional four years for US colleges, hethen presumablyJake started college in 19671968.

At collegeMiddleton, he joined the hippie counter-culture and met his future wife [[Helen Morgendorffer|Helen]] there;. theThe counter-culture was a calming influence to the seething cauldron of repressed rage and hatred for the world around him and for his father, and he became an extremely cheery optimist with a firm belief in the counter-culture's ideals and rejecting the modern world. He alsoand Helen were arrested in summer 1969 as a student and once protested outside the Pentagon, where he got enraged and kicked the building. ("[[That Was Then, This Is Dumb]]")He attended [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert Altamont ''Free'' Concert] and somehow ''got his money back'' despite Altamont being free ("[[Road Worrier]]"). Hippie friends included [[Willow Yeager|Willow]] and [[Coyote Yeager|Coyote]]

The twocouple graduated in 1972 ("[[The Daria Database]]") and moved into a commune aftertogether with their graduationfriends. in 1972, and inIn 1975 they got married. ("Diaries" and "[[The Daria Database]]") His father didn't bother to turn up for the wedding ("[[Of Human Bonding]]") and died shortly thereafter.