Bonnie and Clyde are notorious bank robbers from the 1930’s, but there is more to their life of crime than just robbing banks. There is more to both of their lives than most people know. Bonnie and Clyde never had dreams of being outlaws; Bonnie dreamed of being an actress while Clyde dreamed of being a musician. During The Great Depression both of their lives changed for the worse. For better or worse, both of their lives were changed forever. Even though Bonnie and Clyde may be considered Outlaws that got what they deserved; for Bonnie and Clyde this rough life was a way to survive during The Great Depression.
Bonnie Parker grew up in a time when being the child of a single parent ment that you would be impoverished. Bonnie was born October
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On July 18, 1933 the gang stopped at a tourist camp outside of Platte City, Missouri. The clerk at the camp watched them unload their things and saw Clyde carry Bonnie into the cabin as well as many guns. The clerk alerted the police of their unusual behavior. The police showed up to the cabins and knocked on the door and shouted “open up!”. Clyde was in the cabin next door to Bucks and heard the commotion. Clyde started firing at the officer. During the shootout, Buck was shot twice in the head. Blanche carried Buck to car that was parked in the garage and Clyde also carried Bonnie out to the car. Clyde knew that he would have to time the escape perfect in order to get away. Clyde drove the car through the garage door surprising the police and giving them a window to escape where none of the police were shooting at them. When the police finally started shooting at the car WD was shot in shoulder and then the back glass shattered. Some of this glass went into Blanche’s eyes blinding her. They continued to drive until a hunter spotted them and called the police. Clyde and Bonnie escaped on foot while Buck was caught and died three days later in the hospital. Blanche was also caught and served ten years at a women's prison. The law eventually caught part of the gang, but they never gave up. If they stopped running, they didn't have a life to go back to. Even if they weren't …show more content…
The police knew that they would come this way after visiting their family and lay in wait on a secluded dirt highway near Sailes, Louisiana. The group in wait included local police officers as well as Texas Rangers. As Bonnie and Clyde approached the hidden policemen, the officers and rangers opened fire on their car instantly killing Bonnie and Clyde on May 23,1934. (“Bonnie and Clyde”) Clyde Barrow was shot seventeen times and Bonnie Parker was shot twenty- six times. This was the end of their run. They were finally caught by the law. Always on the run knowing that there wasn't a better life for them back home. They never got back the money that Clyde said was his, but they always held onto the dream. Even though they were called murders, they were also in love. They never went anywhere without the other. The great depression hurt many people in many different ways, but Bonnie and Clyde tried to not let this stop them. Even in the end Bonnie was a poet. She was never an actress, but she will still always be known for her poems. Clyde was brave and always faithful to Bonnie. Although he was wanted for murder, he was always the honest and upright man that Bonnie said he
In the legendary period of American history known as the Old West, the law of the whole nation had yet to tame that frontier which was spottily settled. This resulted in lawlessness seen in the personage of those known as outlaws and lawbreakers whose notorious reputations often exceeded their very person to mythical proportions. Belle Starr was one such outlaw. From her association with outlaws such as Jesse James and the Younger brothers, she reached a level of fantastic infamy that today leaves the facts of her life not always distinguishable from the fiction. Belle's life is an odyssey of many marriage's and affairs with felons, petty criminals, and unsavory characters. Belle Starr’s legacy will live on forever reminding us of the past events that still connect with current societies events.
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker burst upon the American Southwest in the Great Depression year of 1932. At the time of Clyde’s first involvement with a murder, people paid little attention to the event. He was just another violent hoodlum in a nation with a growing list of brutal criminals, which included Al Capone, John Dillenger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barker Gang. Not until Bonnie and Clyde joined forces did the public become intrigued. The phrase “Bonnie and Clyde'; took on an electrifying and exotic meaning that has abated little in the past sixty years.
They stood for the “American trust in collective action, and the fair legal process that transcended private feelings of what is considered right and wrong.”
The realistic documentary style film Bonnie and Clyde ( Warner Brothers, 1967) directed by Arthur Penn is a intriguing film about two partners and their adventures in traveling around the Midwest and surrounding areas robbing banks in the hopes of crime paying off for them. Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) is a young woman who is tired of working hard for no pay with her job as a waitress, when she meets Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) who is in the middle of stealing Bonnie’s mothers car develop a once in a lifetime connection. When Bonnie meets Clyde she instantly develops an attraction towards him particularly for his rebellious nature that she soon decides to follow him in hopes of turning her life around to find adventure and true love. Accompanying them on their journey the two meet up with a man by C.W. Moss (Michael J. Pollard) who they encounter at a gas station and later with Clyde’s older brother Buck (Gene Hackman) and his wife, Blanche (Estelle Parsons). Petty crimes that Bonnie and Clyde had once committed such as stealing from a grocery store have now escalated with the help of more people. The “Barrow Gang” is what the group would refer to themselves as, had easily escalated to adding homicide to their list of crimes to remove people who stood in their mission in becoming rich. The scene in the film where Bonnie reunites with her mother and family is a significant scene in the film because it foreshadows the future for Bonnie as well as the rest of the gang. In this scene the camera develops a foggy shadow to go with the scene. There is this bitter sweet feeling that develops in this scene due to multiple takes of long shots as well as its relatively slow paced nature. Bonnie and Clyde’s decision to go down a slippery sl...
“Some day they’ll go down together…But it’s death for Bonnie and Clyde” (Guinn 313). The quote from above was the last poem written by Bonnie Parker, but the question remains: was Bonnie a cold-blooded killer that deserved to die, or was she just a girl who fell for the wrong boy? This eventually leads to her joining in to a life of crime. A look at the life of the “Cigar-Smoking Gun Moll” as everyone referred to her, will prove that the ambush that took her life was unjust.
Bonnie and Clyde held the attention of the American public. Their lives brought forth a story of romance, action and adventure during the 1920s and the Great Depression. They are known as legends, their lives caught the attention of the American people in a way that had never happened before, from the time they met, to when they became the felons they are known for being and even in their deaths they were always in the eyes of the people. They brought to light a new kind of criminal. Bonnie and Clyde’s lifestyle was greatly influenced by the 1920s and the Great Depression.
In 1843, an ex-slave named Isabella Baumfree, heard the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking to her. He instructed her to take on a new mission of preaching the people to abstain from sin and to change her name to Sojourner Truth (Sojourner Truth PBS). Sojourner left New York City where she had lived working as a housekeeper and going to spiritual gatherings for the past 15 or so years of her life. Traveling up the Connecticut River Valley, Truth gave speeches on rights for women and slaves as an itinerant preacher (Voices of the Civil War). Her work as an abolitionist and women’s rights activist made a difference for African-Americans, women, and the Union during and around the time of the Civil War.
In 1962, director of the Congress of Racial Equality, James Farmer and fellow CORE leader Bayard Rustin, resurrected an earlier strategy from the late 1940s that called for blacks to ride segregated trains and buses during interstate travel in the upper South. The earlier protest on wheels had failed miserably when the riders were arrested in North Carolina, convicted, and given month-long sentences doing chain-gang labor. This time, the protesters hoped that they would receive greater support from the federal government and the Justice Department.
Clyde and his acquaintances explore the possibilities of girls, and drinking alcohol. Eventually, these people steal a car, and Clyde runs away to keep himself from being apprehended by the police. His entire life has been changed because he has made a few bad decisions. Things turn worse and worse for Clyde as he progresses through the next few months, and he feels exactly the opposite.
Rosa parks was a phenomenal woman whom played a tremendous part in our history. Rosa Parks was a woman who had changed our history for the best. She was a woman of authority and because of her, our world has changed from segregation to everyone was combined no matter your race, color, or the way you looked.
Bonnie and Clyde, directed by Arthur Penn in 1967, was a film about two lovers who robbed banks at the start of the Great Depression. It was filmed in America while the Vietnam War was constantly being broadcasted on television sets, and the “Summer of Love” was taking place in San Francisco and other major cities across the country. The Vietnam War was said to be the first American war to enter the peoples living rooms due to rise in popularity of television. America was already growing more and more violent in general but now it was beginning to take on an unreal quality, especially from the media perspective. In regards to the final scene, Penn said that it was influenced by media reports about Vietnam: “it seemed to me that if were
Bonnie Parker grew up with a normal childhood went to school every day was an above average student. She was born in Rowena Texas on October 10, 1910. Her father Charles Parker was a brick layer, but he died when bonnie was only four. After her father’s death the family moved in with her grandparents by Dallas Texas. She met Roy Thornton and soon after they got married, but Thornton got in trouble with the law and sentenced to five years in prison leaving bonnie on her own. She had a waitress job but was unhappy after Roy left. Until went to visit a friend in West Dallas where she then met Clyde Barrow. Clyde was born March 24, 1909 in Telico Texas. Clyde Barrow’s father was Henry Barrow who was a share cropper. He was one of eight children in the family. Clyde’s academics was anything but consistent. When his father quit farming the family moved to West Dallas which was were his dad opened a service shop. Clyde started high school but that was short lived he dropped out of school. Bonnie and Clyde met in West Dallas at a mutual friend’s house .Bonnie’s life prior to their crime spree was completely normal for a teenage high school student job at a café, showing no signs of becoming a notorious robber. Clyde on the other hand was the complete opposite. After dropping out of high school he went out with his brother selling stole...
Annie Oakley was born on August 13, 1860 in Darke County, Ohio. Her original name was Phoebe Ann Moses, but her family called her Annie. Annie Oakley was short in stature, coming in at around five feet tall. She had wavy brown hair that fell past her shoulders and she wore costumes that she sewed herself. To maintain her ladylike attitude, Annie always wore a skirt and never wore pants.
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James A. Garfield was an outstanding man of many endeavors who went from driving boats down the canal to become a general of the union army to the twentieth president of the United States of America (The American Heritage Book of the Presidents and Famous Americans). James A. Garfield was against slavery and had great plans for reconstruction, but sadly they were cut short. His term only lasted in the first year, as Garfield was shot by an office seeker and died many months later (The American Heritage Book of the Presidents and Famous Americans).