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The Laws Will Get Em “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. In the early stages of Bonnie’s life before she met Clyde, Bonnie was a loving and caring child, but that does not mean that she let people walk all over her. Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was brought into the world by Mrs. Emma Krause Parker, on the …show more content…
She had a chance to leave Clyde, and though she might have thought about it she always remained by his side till the end. The last time Bonnie saw her mother she asked but two request: “’When they kill us, don’t let them take me to an undertaking parlor, will you? Bring me home…it’s coming. You know it. I know it…Bring me home when I die’” (Milner 136). All Bonnie ever want was to be home instead of being on the run. She wanted to be with her family. The last time she spoke to them she gave her mother: “The Story of Bonnie and Clyde” it was the last poem she penned. When Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed near Arcadia, Louisiana Clyde was driving shoeless and Bonnie was munching on a sandwich. They pulled over to help a former gang-member’s father but it was all a trap. When asked what happened; former Texas ranger Capt. Frank Hamer replied; “’…when they came along we hollered at them to stop. They both reached for their guns, but were kind of slow’” (“Shot”). As Clyde was shot and died instantly, and just imagine Bonnie seeing that image and knowing in her mind and soul that she was going to die also: “In those few seconds Bonnie screamed, a high shrill wail that haunted the men about to kill her for the rest of their lives” (Guinn 340). The image of a girl four foot eleven inches, with strawberry blond curls, blue eyes her body riddled with bullet holes, and blood all over her
Three additional children followed Clyde’s birth, and the families financial difficulties worsened as the price for cotton bounced up and down. After some years the Barrow’s found it impossible to provide for their children and sent them to live with relatives in east Texas. At one relatives home Clyde developed two interests that remained with him to the end of hid life: a passion for music, and an obsession with guns. Even as Clyde drove along the lane in Louisiana to his death, he carried a saxophone and reams of sheet music, as well as an arsenal of firearms. Clyde loved and named his guns, and regarded them as tokens of his power.
Molly’s mother handled her captivity with a lot of sadness, and she did not speak until the Indians started to take Molly away from her, where she said her last words to Molly. Her father handled his captivity with guilt and sadness. Also, he gave up of escaping, and then said something right before he dies.
In the month of August, a married couple was murdered inside their own house and their own daughter, Lizzie Borden, was accused and trial as if she committed the murder. Lizzie Borden was found innocent even though many found her guilty due to evidence against her. Some might say that justice was done but was it truly done? During the trial, a famous poem about the case was made, “Lizzie Borden took an ax, gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.”. This poem was written about Lizzie Borden, who was accused of the murder of her father and stepmother on August 4, 1892. Both her father and stepmother were violently murdered within their own home at the fall of an ax. Even though the poem did
It's the story of two likable social misfits, played by a 28-year-old Warren Beatty and a previously unknown actress named Faye Dunaway, whose sexuality, bravado, and just-folks demeanor allow the outlaws to emerge as folk heroes. The screenplay prescribes that the first time Clyde shows Bonnie his gun, she touch it "in a manner almost sexual, full of repressed excitement." To impress her, Clyde immediately robs a grocery store. Crazed now by desire, she smothers him with hugs and kisses as their car careens wildly down a country road. Clyde rejects her advances, setting up one of the movie's several memorable premises: that Clyde was either homosexual or impotent. "I might as well tell you right off," he confesses. "I ain't much of a lover boy." Angry and hurt, Bonnie tells him, "Your advertisin' is just dandy. Folks would never guess you don't have a thing to sell." But Dunaway's Bonnie is a woman who is bored and desperate to leave her dead-end job as a waitress. Naturally she is intrigued by Clyde's promise of excitement and adventure. Soon they are bopping from bank job to bank job, making Keystone Kops getaways to the jaunty banjo strains of Flatt and Scruggs's "Foggy Mountain Breakdown." Near the finish of the movie, Clyde is overwhelmed by her loyalty, her courage, her beauty, and most of all, her poetry. Bonnie and Clyde consummate their love in an open field shortly after she recites her magnum opus, a poem titled "The Story of Bonnie and Clyde," which ends with these linesBonnie Parker was generous, sensitive, adventurous, compulsive, and doggedly loyal, a small flower of a girl with reddish-gold hair and profoundly blue eyes, vulnerable and fragile and yet tough as nails and willful to the extreme. Clyde Barrow was a scrawny little psychopath with jug ears and the sense of humor of a persimmon, cruel, egotistical, obsessive, vindictive, and so devoid of
While being jailed she began to write poetry again. A collection later to be known as “The Trails End” foretelling what would happen to Bonnie and Clyde as she put “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.”2 After getting out their sprees started to reign again because they were in desperate need of money. They had decided to rob the hardware store that sat directly across from the Kauffman town courthouse. They were both overwhelmed by excitement, until they heard the alarm go
Bonnie and Clyde made history in the great the depression when the stock market crashed. There was barely any money in the banks, in the cash registers at business, and wallets of the american people. Bonnie and clyde did what they had to do to stay alive and have fun with the bad times and they did make things fun but they hurt people in the process. Thats why most americans think they are terrible people, but they did what they had to do to get by.
With a total of thirteen murders and numerous armed burglaries and robberies, the notorious Bonnie and Clyde’s image as dangerous outlaws evolved into one of romance and a “Robin Hood” morality. This illusion does not dismiss the wrong doings the pair carried out over their eleven years of crime on the run. Over the course of a decade, they committed an astounding amount of crimes. The most surprising part is, the duo was able to survive on the run in their trusty car. However, their life on the run is not as glamorous as people presume. They often ate sardines from the can, bathed in rivers, and drove through the night, taking shifts sleeping and driving to avoid capture.
At the beginning of the story, Clyde states that, “Most people mistake me for a small, kindly Italian grandfather….They never guess that I am a vampire” (Russell, 407). Clyde’s kindly appearance makes the readers feel like he is a friendly grandfather who quietly enjoys his time in the lemon grove. Although he tells the readers that he is a vampire, the readers have no reason to believe that Clyde has a darker side. Later in the story, when Clyde describes his feelings toward Fila, he says, “I feel a well of love for the girl” (Russell, 408). The readers can feel Clyde’s sincere affection for the girl, and because of his friendly appearance and his love for the girl, the readers cannot believe that he will do anything bad to her. Also, the book mentions that his wife has taught him that killing people is not necessary and can be stopped. However, at the end of the story, Clyde loses control of his actions and says, “It seems my hand has tightened on the girl’s wrist, and I realize with surprise, as if from a great distance, that he is twisting away” (Russell, 421). He disappoints the readers by killing the girl he once liked. From the quote, the readers can feel that Clyde splits into two sides, a side that is evil and another side that is normal. However, he seems to be
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
Through her work she attempts convey the message that her and Clyde are not as cruel as the media makes them out to be: "There's a lot of untruths to these write-ups; they're not as ruthless as that". In one part of the poem she states that it is not Clyde's fault that he is the way he is but in fact the law's fault: "But I say this with pride that I once knew Clyde, when he was upright and clean. But the law fooled around; kept taking him down, and locking him up in a cell. Till he said to me; "I'll never be free, so I'll meet a few of them in hell"". Bonnie does this to build up the sympathy of the public and to get them on the gang's side so that they would not be exposed when they were moving to new locations. The message makes it appear as if the gang just had a problem with the law and would only take on large establishments like banks, but W. D. Jones' account tells otherwise in his voluntary statement from
The philosophical residue of Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom The Bell Tolls reveals the impact of love, duty, and relationships on the main character’s ideas about death.
Unfortunately, her hope for long years and many beautiful spring days was abruptly ended in an ironic twist. Unbeknownst to herself and her company, Mr. Mallard had survived, and within an hour the promises of a bright future for Mrs. Mallard had both began and came to an end. Her grievous death was misconstrued as joy to the others: "they said she had died of heart disease-of joy that kills" (Chopin 471). This statement embodies the distorted misconception that a woman lives only for her man. The audience, in fact, sees just the opposite. To Louise her life was elongated at the news of her husband's death, not cut short. Throughout the story, one hopes Louise will gain her freedom. Ironically, she is granted freedom, but only in death.
Despite her myopic state of mind, she provides a glimpse of the different personalities of one of the most intriguing outlaws in history. It seemed like she “tolerated” everyone that touched Buck’s life. Buck was older than Blanche and wanted to make sure she was always cared for. He pleaded with his mother to watch over her while he was in prison. Despite that request, Blanche felt like she was on her own (she didn’t tell Buck, because she didn’t want to hurt his feelings) and worked at a beauty salon to make ends meet. She felt that Buck’s family was jealous of their relationship and the love he had for her. She also didn’t get along with Bonnie. A tremendous amount of tension existed between Blanche and Bonnie. Blanche admitted that after Bonnie was nearly burned to death in an automobile accident, Clyde had to drive to Dallas to pick up her mother, but came back with Bonnie’s sister, Billie Jean Parker, instead. Apparently, Blanche refused to help take care of Bonnie, even when they all thought she may die? And, Bonnie casually left that part out her memoir? She was however, compelled to mention a budding love affair that occurred between W.D Jones and Billie Jean. Blanche hated Clyde. As far as she was concerned, he took away her dream of a ‘normal’ life. Buck Barrrow was overwhelmed and dominated by his younger brother, Clyde and Blanche
“Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him (Bierce 1-2).” Death was ultimately present throughout much of both short stories, his sudden and striking hand took the life of many during the Civil War. Each moment of battle was soiled with sweat, blood, and tears of the soldiers. The bodies of fathers, brothers, and friends littered the battlefield, and often the death passed over members closer to home. Not only were those whose lives were lost affected, but the families of the brave men were affected devastatingly as well. The author Mark Twain approached the suddenness of death in his story “A Private History of a Campaign that Failed”. Ambrose Bierce also captured the sharp essence of death in his tale of Peyton Farquhar in “An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge”.
While he is in jail he makes a deal to get a T-bone Steak for the location of the Clarence’s attorney And he gets his steak but not in enough time and then the Attorney runs out of oxygen and suffocates to death. While they are gone investigating Clyde retrieves the bone out of the steak and stabs his cellmate in the neck with said bone and gets transferred to solitary confinement. He then kills the judge through her phone, and sets off car bombs killing several more people. He then kills another lawyer using a modified EOD bot. He then attempts to kill the mayor of the town and he was outsmarted by Nick Rice because they found the bomb and planted it into his cell and when Clyde called the phone bomb he called it under his bed and the bomb exploded killing him and ending his reign of terror. Now my essay is about how they could have stopped his entire plan if they had not have given Clyde his Steak he would not have even began his reign of