| The boy, Elvis Aaron Presley, at the age of two or | | | | friends, in the schools variety shows, on picnics and at |
| three he was a real sharecroppers kid wearing his | | | | times at the local boys clubbut not to receive a |
| overalls, a two toned shirt, and a hat which is warn in | | | | financial return. |
| the same way as his dads, is cutely tipped to the right. | | | | Elvis is not showy with it; he is quite the opposite and is |
| With his fine eyes whose pupils seem huge giving him | | | | often reluctant. |
| a sharp look, his nose appears to be in a flattened | | | | It's just something he does but knows how to get it |
| form, his cheeks are very chubby, and even now at | | | | going once he starts. |
| this age his famous curl is already altering his full lips. | | | | Elvis being no different to other kids of this age: |
| At the age of six Elvis seems to of developed a few | | | | following the girls, pairing up to go out to the movies, |
| of his mothers delicate features, with his golden | | | | having rides at the carnival, and longing for the day he |
| colored hair, wide-eyed and beautiful, but his curled lip is | | | | has a car to go cruising injust an average all American |
| very much noticeable, giving the cherub an impish look, | | | | boy. |
| but also irresistible. | | | | In the adolescent years hanging out by the drug stores |
| Now at the age of eight he is taller, slimmer and quite | | | | and jukebox joints, bored by the past, with nothing |
| passive: every mothers ideal child, he is now dressed in | | | | offered by the present, while casting misty eyes to |
| the local style, with a long sleeved-shirt, open at the | | | | wards the romantic future. It seems his Country is |
| neck, and raggedy trousers held up chest high with the | | | | going through a boring stage. |
| support of braces: a mighty fine Huckleberry Fin. | | | | It would all seem such a drag |
| In the future Elvis learns to love God, to value even his | | | | Girl's in their bobbed hair and make up; the |
| worst elders, and to stand by his Country whether it is | | | | guy'spresenting neatness wearing slack's and jumper's |
| right or wrong. | | | | with tidy crew-cutplay sport. |
| As life goes on, his untaught eyes observes his | | | | Just before the end of Elvis's school year's, he start's |
| parent's appalling poverty, they both rise with the dawn | | | | part time work as an usher to help out with the hard |
| and work hard all day with very little time for pleasure. | | | | times for his parent's, but had to quit after punching a |
| His father keeps changing jobs, they have to keep | | | | fellow usher. |
| moving, and it seems like no end in sight. Elvis looks at | | | | He then works evening shift at the Marl Metal |
| his mothers face, feels the tension in her flesh, its then | | | | Product's Company which became difficult while also |
| Elvis turns to her promising one day he will mend | | | | tending school though the day but after falling to sleep |
| thing's. | | | | at school he quits again. |
| It is likely that Elvis is now a wear of the protective | | | | Life dosen't seem to be improving for his parents as |
| smiles to the exposure lying ahead of the family, in the | | | | they continue to struggle through the tough times, Elvis |
| land's gripping poverty. | | | | starts mowing lawns for pocket money, and yet no |
| Elvis sings to his mother when the storms force them | | | | matter how grim thing where for the Presley's, they |
| from home; he stands up to sing in the classroom and | | | | would always do the best they could by their son. |
| at church, clear, unsteady, doubtful, with an impressive | | | | They went as far as buying Elvis a Lincoln Coupe, |
| genuineness that brings tears to the eyes of the | | | | which it seems, is for all the family, but Elvis uses it. |
| strongest in the room. | | | | Life remains unsteady, but in view of the conditions |
| Elvis's nature was very sweet and consistently polite, | | | | Elvis has good times going out to parties, hanging |
| quiet and considerate, as for rebellion it never existed | | | | around jukeboxes, generally enjoying life. But he |
| in his personality. Elvis may have been poor but | | | | remains very thankful to his parents and returns all the |
| respectable, standard at school; he would gather | | | | love he receives. |
| flowers with the other kids, fooled around, but seldom | | | | After leaving school in June 1953 he gets a factory |
| gets into trouble: an unknown child. | | | | job, then goes to Crown Electricity Company, where |
| Elvis is now thirteen and the Presley family is on the | | | | he finally gets to be a truck driver and loves it. |
| move again. leaving the harsh fields to the bright lights | | | | It was noticed by many he liked to comb his hair and |
| of Memphis. | | | | that it wasn't a concern how seen him do it, in all reality |
| Elvis now sixteen naturally, continues to sing, and carry | | | | he thought little of others opinions as he would rather |
| his guitar around. He would on occasions play for his | | | | use a beauticians pallor than that of a barbershop. |