Bonnie and Clyde w/ Catherine Hayden by https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde Bonnie and Clyde - The Making of a Legend by Karen Blumenthal // AP Lang November/December Padlet en-us 2018-11-16 17:38:01 UTC 2018-12-15 17:46:46 UTC hello@padlet.com 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/305373518 I chose this because the Northborough Teen Librarian recommended it to me and I thought it would be interesting. I didn't know much about Bonnie and Clyde going into it, but I knew there was a musical made on their lives. With that information enough, I knew this book would be a safe bet because even if I hated it, I could still listen to the musical and be able to make some connections. Additionally, I like books on crime and I trust]]> 2018-11-16 17:45:46 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/305373518 1.1 Passage: "I have a dog, and I think a lot of that dog,' he told state legislature, 'but I'd kill him before I'd put him down there to stay'" (28) 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/309238775 2018-11-29 12:38:55 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/309238775 1.1 Response 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/309239731 This quote is the Texas governor Dan Moody talking about the main state prison of Texas located in Huntsville. Clyde Barrow was placed in Waco, a smaller state prison because the Huntsville one was 300 people over its maximum capacity. Moody announced that it was not "a fit place for human habitation" (28). Reading this made me realize how horrible prisons were in that time. I knew they were subpar, yes, but if the governor would kill his dog before letting him into the prison, conditions were truly awful. Later, the condition and guard brutality is fleshed out more, which made me understand how desperate Clyde was to get out of the prisons and grow distrusting of authority.]]> 2018-11-29 12:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/309239731 1.2 Passage: "Today, well-trained police with modern technology and communication would have an upper hand against young guys like Clyde Barrow. But not in the early 1930s. With money tight everywhere, most departments were severely under staffed and poorly trained" (61). 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/309245135 2018-11-29 12:56:29 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/309245135 Reading Goals 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/309245304 11/30 - 78 (1.1, 1.2)
12/7 - 100
12/14 - End]]> 2018-11-29 12:56:57 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/309245304 1.1 Vocabulary: "Diseases like typhoid fever and diphtheria were a constant concern" (16). 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/309247288 Typhoid fever (noun) = "an infectious bacterial fever with an eruption of red spots on the chest and abdomen and severe intestinal irritation"
Diphtheria (noun) = "an acute, highly contagious bacterial disease causing inflammation of the mucous membranes, formation of a false membrane in the throat that hinders breathing and swallowing, and potentially fatal heart and nerve damage by a bacterial toxin in the blood." With modern vaccines (DTaP), it is rare.
Original sentence: Diphteria is now no longer a large concern, although typhoid fever still kills over 100,000 people per year.]]> 2018-11-29 13:01:56 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/309247288 1.2 Response 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/309252142 This quote really explains why we don't have outlaws who are constantly on the run and romanticized today, because they are caught and given the appropriate punishment. If they are not caught, outlaws have to be quite quiet of their whereabouts as they could easily be tracked. In the 1930s however, the policemen had no formal training and "though Clyde was wanted for the Bucher murder, deputy sheriffs visited the Barrow filling station only once that summer" (61) as the police department so understaffed. Due to this incompetence, Clyde was able to evade the law successfully for years.]]> 2018-11-29 13:14:17 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/309252142 1.2 Vocabulary: "So the deputy directed his driver through map-dot West Texas towns like Kermit, Monahans, and Craine to avoid bigger metropolises like Odessa" (71). 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/310028884 Metropolis (noun) = "a very large and densely populated industrial and commercial city" OR "the capital or chief city of a country or region."
Original sentence: Metropolises have historically been the transition point for not only goods but ideas, especially before literacy was common.]]> 2018-12-01 04:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/310028884 2.1 Passage: "Actually knowing what Clyde and Bonnie did, and when, is challenging. They didn't leave a diary, and newspaper reports never caught up with them for interviews. They were never tried for any crimes committed after Clyde got out of prison, so no sworn testimony exists. Instead, others told their story" (79). 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/312460429 2018-12-08 03:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/312460429 2.1 Vocabulary "At times, they may have wanted to embellish their personal bravery, hide their own embarrassing missteps, or demonize the outlaws" (80). 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/312460443 Embellish (verb) = "make (a statement or story) more interesting or entertaining by adding extra details, especially ones that are not true."
Original sentence: The story was embellished to the point of being almost entirely fictional.]]> 2018-12-08 03:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/312460443 2.1 Response 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/312460817 This quote stuck out to me because I think people don't appreciate how scarce solid evidence was at the time. Even when people weren't hiding from the police, using fake names, and having others cover for them, precise dates of events and exactly what happened during those events are not necessarily a dime a dozen. Baring in mind this idea is important when going forth in the reading, as some parts can become slightly frustrating with their lack of detail and it is important to remember with what the author Karen Blumenthal is working. This quote's placement is essential to its function, as the following paragraphs describe varying accounts by Bonnie and Clyde's families, news sources, and the police of what Bonnie and Clyde did in the fall of 1932]]> 2018-12-08 03:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/312460817 3.1 Vocabulary "One day, all three men came back ;ate at night with a huge cache of guns, stolen from an unguarded National Guard armory" (100). 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314531425 Cache (noun) = "a collection of items of the same type stored in a hidden or inaccessible place."
Original sentence: The jewelry she wore came from the cache her mother had given her in a large locked box.]]> 2018-12-14 03:29:11 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314531425 3.2 Vocabulary "There, two women gently put her on a bed and began to clean her up, applying salve on the burn and washing dirt and sand from her hair and face" (117). 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314531827 Salve (noun) = "an ointment used to promote healing of the skin or as protection."
Original sentence = The doctor told me to put this salve on my injury every day for the next two weeks so it will get better]]> 2018-12-14 03:32:08 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314531827 3.3 Vocabulary "Officials also made note of the painful souvenirs from his travels: bullet wound scars on his side and his chest; a burn scar on his thigh from the Wellington car crash; scars on his face, right hand and left leg; and buckshot still in his little finger, chest, and lower lip" (141). 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314532185 Buckshot (noun) = a "coarse lead shot used in shotgun shells."
Original Sentence: The buckshot hit him in the foot, shattering his bones instantly.]]> 2018-12-14 03:35:32 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314532185 3.4 Vocabulary "When the sun came up, a motorist reported the suspicious car to Cal Campbell, a constable in Commerce, Oklahoma" (163). 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314894375 Constable (noun) = "a peace officer with limited policing authority, typically in a small town"
Original Sentence: The constable does a good job in the town to make sure everything is tranquil.]]> 2018-12-15 14:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314894375 3.1 Passage: "Clyde was generous with Marie, too. She was about to turn fifteen, and her brother gave her money to buy her first bedroom furniture -- a bed, a chest of drawers, and a dresser" (113). 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314894773 2018-12-15 14:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314894773 3.1 Response 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314894873 Throughout the book, the Clyde has been constantly giving sums of money to his family Though Clyde's money came entirely from illegal means, he always came back to support his family even if it was dangerous to return. I find it interesting to compare Clyde, and outlaw's, generosity to the selfishness of some people who are considered completely moral. Obviously, Clyde is a murderer and a thief, but the nuances of his character are intriguing, and crime does not necessarily mean that every aspect of his being is negative.]]> 2018-12-15 14:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314894873 3.2 Passage: "Their crimes were getting more national attention. Clyde was listed in the "Line Up" section of fugitives wanted for murder in the May and September issues of /True Detective Mysteries/ (123). 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314895460 2018-12-15 15:01:46 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314895460 3.2 Response 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314895559 A common theme throughout this book is the love Bonnie and Clyde have for getting attention in magazines and newspapers. In a way, this reminds me of how some mass shooters thrive off of attention and are satisfied when their names and pictures are run, causing media outlets to release less and less information about them. Of course, it is a different environment when the criminal is still on the loose and people must be aware, but the gratification associated with the attention is similar in my mind.]]> 2018-12-15 15:03:03 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314895559 3.3 Passage: "As soon as Buck and Blanche were taken away, souvenir hunters descended on their campsite, plucking bullets out of trees and searching for anything they could take. The slippery young outlaws apparently were as fascinating as they were violent and dangerous" (132). 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314895917 2018-12-15 15:08:29 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314895917 3.4 Passage: "Bonnie divided the money and, according to one participant, was unusually fair because she and Clyde 'value friendship more than money'" (152). 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314896031 2018-12-15 15:10:28 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314896031 3.3 Response 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314896162 This quote reminded me of a book I read last year called "The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired Chicago." That book is about the Chicago murderesses, whose stories were eventually adapted into the musical and movie Chicago. During these women's trials, people would overflow the courtroom seating and be trying to grab glimpses of the murderesses through the windows. Similarly, these people are fascinated with Bonnie and Clyde and their companions because of the thrill of crime and murder infused with love; the "fans" going as far as hunting for souvenirs to take home to show that they had been where the outlaws were.]]> 2018-12-15 15:13:00 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314896162 3.4 Response 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314903695 Similarly to Clyde's devotion to family seen through his generosity and constant visits, both Clyde and Bonnie value their friends enough to give up their dishonest ways to make sure they keep them. This fact makes sense, as their friends could easily turn on them and possibly get them captured or killed by the police. Nonetheless, it shows a softer side of Bonnie and Clyde despite all their crimes.]]> 2018-12-15 17:00:50 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314903695 3.5 Passage: "As law enforcement got closer to catching up with Clyde and Bonnie, they began to hear that Bonnie was pregnant" (182). 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314905168 2018-12-15 17:20:02 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314905168 3.5 Response 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314905334 This quote once again reminded me of the Chicago murders in the 1920s, as one of the murderesses insisted she was pregnant to gain sympathy from the jury. The same may have been done here, as Bonnie could have been trying to protect herself. According to reports, it is unlikely that she was actually pregnant because both she and Clyde had good chances of being infertile (Bonnie from an operation and Clyde due to genetics).]]> 2018-12-15 17:20:54 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314905334 3.5 Vocabulary "On the other side of the wall, a raucous and growing mob made the work more stressful" (184). 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314905638 Raucous (adjective) = "making or constituting a disturbingly harsh and loud noise."
Original sentence: The raucous crash of the plates made the customers in the diner stop eating and look around for the source of the noise.]]> 2018-12-15 17:24:01 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314905638 3.6 Vocabulary "'They shouted, they stormed, they cajoled,' reported the Dallas Evening Journal" (188). 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314906568 Cajoled (verb) = "Persuade someone to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery."
Original sentence: The child finally cajoled his mother into getting him the toy helicopter he wanted.]]> 2018-12-15 17:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314906568 3.6 Passage: "The biggest floral arrangement was sent by local newsboys, who had seen scales skyrocket after the couple was killed" (190). 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314906861 2018-12-15 17:39:58 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314906861 3.6 Response 20haydenc https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314906936 This quote is particularly sad, as it shows that Bonnie's largest floral arrangement came to her funeral only because she was able to make the newsboys some money, not because she love by them because of who she actually was. While reports show that Bonnie most likely did kill someone at least once during her time with Clyde, it is still hard to not pity her in death.]]> 2018-12-15 17:40:46 UTC https://padlet.com/20haydenc/bonnienandclyde/wish/314906936