Pretty Boy Floyd Research Paper

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“I got a code 2 i repeat code 2 Public enemy no. 1 pretty boy floyd is in sight, engage in cousion.”..... Charles Arthur “pretty boy” Floyd was a criminal who was always on the run. Charles Floyd and Antigone are alike because they both disobeyed laws for a cause they believed in. Antigone buried her brother because she thought it was the right thing to do, and Pretty boy stole from banks and gave back to the poor because the banks were stealing from the poor from the start. (Pretty Boy Floyd) He lived in the early 1900’s, during the great depression and the dust bowl. It was hard to make a steady paycheck because it would vary each day. Right when he was born his family moved to Oklahoma from Georgia. A little after being married his wife …show more content…
Everyone loved him for that because he was doing the right thing, (“Floyd, Pretty Boy”). He always had the cops chasing after them and also some people at first who did not know what he was doing did not approve of him. He was actually killed by a farmer. He would always have wanted posters everywhere of him after all he was Public Enemy Number 1. (“Pretty Boy Floyd”). Well The banks were definitely more careful about what they did. But honestly he was always on the run for what he did and never could settle and make a family. He was shot as he ran from this cop and a farmer shot him 8 times in the back. “he ran in a zigzag pattern across the field, hoping to throw off the lawmens aim, but went down with eight bullets in him. Purvis hovered over the dying gangster and said, Your Pretty Boy Floyd. Even as his life ebbed away, the gangster took offense at the nickname. Im charles Arthur Floyd he snapped!” (“Floyd, Pretty Boy”).

Charles Pretty boy Floyd may have committed crimes and may have done some wrongdoings in his past but he did it for the greater good for the people. He stole money but only to give it back to who needed it the most and who it truly belonged

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