Jack Kelly

Jack Kelly is the main character of the movie Newsies.

Jack's Childhood
Not very much is known about Jack as a kid. We do know that his parents are no longer with him. His father is in prison and his mother is dead. Although if you read a fanfiction many people say his father killed his mother but nobody knows for sure. In the Newsies novel by Johnathan Fast Jack finds a picture of his parents that they took in Coney Island Brooklyn. Eventualy he finds the Newsies and becomes one himself

Jack and Santa Fe
Jack dreams of going to Santa Fe New Mexico. Even dedicating a song to it in the movie. During the movie Pulitzer makes him a scab worker by giving him the opertunity to go to Santa Fe. He later stops being a scab worker and goes back to the strike. At the end he is given another chance to go to Santa Fe when Tedy Rosevelt comes. In the origanal script he takes this opertunity and goes to Santa Fe. But in the movie we have now he turns back and stays in New York.