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Jack’s father
Jack’s father is recorded in 1 distinct story.
Jack Torrance’s unnamed father works as a Berlin Community Hospital orderly and attacks his six-year-old son. This descriptive entry records the father depicted in the prologue; no first name is invented.
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Before the Play
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Jacky's father was an orderly at the Berlin Community Hospital. He was like God, like Nature-sometimes lovable, 129 sometimes terrible. You never knew which it would be. Jacky's mother feared and served him. Jacky's brothers hated him.
Jack Torrance’s unnamed father works as a Berlin Community Hospital orderly and attacks his six-year-old son. This descriptive entry records the father depicted in the prologue; no first name is invented.
Before the Play ↗By Stephen King