Bonnie And Clyde Essay

The story of Bonnie and Clyde is a twisted story filled with romance and tragedy. It was a tale like never before because during that time period it was completely unheard of for women to be mobsters/gangsters and be a part of organized crime but Bonnie was completely different from all other women. When most people think of Bonnie and Clyde they consider them to be notorious bank robbers but most of their crimes involved small stores in the towns that they were in at the time. At the beginning of their crime spree most people that heard of the couple considered them to be young kids who were going down the wrong path but would not cause much harm in the long run.. Little did they know that those two young kids would become two of the most
One of the famous poems of Bonnie Parker foreshadows their death. She writes, “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.” Bonnie wrote this poem in the few short weeks leading up to their death and you can see that at that time the couple knew that they did not have much longer to live and they were giving up hope (Herrell). On May 23, 1934 the lives of the star crossed lovers would be shattered forever. The couple was making their way to meet one of their convict buddies dads only to be ambushed by the law on a Louisiana back road. On that fateful day they were trapped on the road by Texas Ranger Frank Hamer and his men when the law let loose the bullets on them. Before it was over with, the car was filled with over 150 bullets (History.com).
At the end of the book, Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn the author sums up the entire story by ending it with the four simple words that Clyde Barrow requested to have in engraved into his tombstone: “Gone but not Forgotten.” According to Jeff Guinn, those words would ring “true in ways he never could have imagined.”