Bonnie And Clyde Research Paper

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The story of Bonnie and Clyde is like no other story heard before. It is a tale of romance, rebellion, and tragedy. Before the come up of Bonnie and Clyde there was a notorious bank robber who went by Pretty Boy Floyd. Like most men at the time, there was no need for a woman except for mating and to keep the house clean so of course he did not involve his wife in his crime. Although most people consider Bonnie and Clyde serious bank robbers, they generally robbed grocery stores and small shops. When the gang started their spree of crime, the local people did not care and considered that they were just kids starting down a wrong path. Little did they know that those two young kids would become two of the most notorious outlaws of all time. …show more content…

She was beautiful and full of life. At the age of sixteen, she married her high school sweetheart, Roy Thorton. The marriage turned sour but they did not divorce even though Roy was incarcerated.
Like Bonnie, Clyde Barrow was born into an extremely poor family. At a young age, Clyde was inflicted with an unknown illness that he was to for sure die from but he he lived. Clyde began his life of crime at a young age along the side of his brother Buck stealing chickens. After a few years of petty crime he was caught and sent to the Eastham Prison Farm. While on the farm he was sexually assaulted and the assailant was the first victim of Clyde’s. When Bonnie and Clyde first met, they knew that fate had brought them together and that they were destined to love one another and die together.
Even though the couple had been poor they used their crime to help them portray themselves as a loving, well-dressed, wealthy couple. They loved one another with every last breath and clung to one another through every heist. They admired the life on the run and not knowing where they would sleep at night or when their next meal would …show more content…

Bonnie craved attention and could not stand it if she was not in the center of it and someone else was in the spotlight. Some say that she did not love Clyde and she was only clinging to him because without him she could not commit the crimes. The crimes made major headlines in the local Heralds. In the beginning, the papers left Bonnie out of the reports because they figured that she as being forced by Clyde to commit the crimes just because she was a woman. Little did they know, Bonnie was equally at fault for all of the crimes and sometimes a master mind to others. Together, Bonnie and Clyde truly believed that they were unstoppable.
They may have thought they were unstoppable but their death was inevitable. In one of Bonnie’s famous poems, “The Story of Bonnie and Clyde,” she writes that her and Clyde are destined to die together. “Some day they'll go down together; And they'll bury them side by side; To few it'll be grief, To the law a relief, But it's death for Bonnie and Clyde.” This poem helps us understand that near the time of their execution, Bonnie could tell that they did not have much longer before the law and their crime caught up with them. This poem was the main contributor to the title of Jeff Guinn’s

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