In the fifth grade, after being beaten by his father for bad grades and playing hookey, he ran away from home and began living a rootless, hand-to-mouth existence.
小學五年級時，因為學業成績極差，又老愛逃學，被老師痛打了一頓。沒想到溜回家後，又被父親用掃帚趕出家門。他一氣之下就離家出走，開始了居無定所、三餐不繼的流浪生涯。