Life & Time of Bonnie & Clyde: Fate and Destiny

Fate and Destiny Clyde Chestnut Barrow was born on March 24, 1909 in Ellis County, Texas into a desperately poor farming family that emigrated, piecemeal, to Dallas in the early 1920s as part of a wave of resettlement from the impoverished nearby farms to the impoverished urban slum known as West Dallas. It was a place of flimsy shanties and tent Cities, piles of garbage and teeming open sewers, swarming insects and rampaging epidemics. The Barrows had neither shanty nor tent: they spent their first months living under their wagon. Clyde was first arrested in late 1926, after running when police confronted him over a rental car he had failed to return on time. His second arrest, with brother Marvin "Buck" Barrow, came soon after, this time for possession of stolen goods (turkeys). Despite having legitimate jobs during the period 1927 through 1929, he also cracked safes, robbed stores, and stole cars. After sequential arrests in 1928 and 1929, his luck ran out and he was sent to Eastham Prison Farm in April 1930. While in prison, he was sexually assaulted repeatedly for over a year by a dominant inmate, whose skull he eventually fractured with a length of pipe. It was Clyde Barrow"s first killing. Clyde"s fate and destiny were sealed. Although the words are used interchangeably in many cases, fate and destiny can be distinguished. It depends on how narrow or broad the definitions are. Broadly speaking, fate is destiny. Narrowly and to be more accurate, traditional usage defines fate as a power or agency that predetermines and orders the course of events. Fate defines events as ordered or "inevitable". Fate is used with regard to the finality of events as they have worked themselves out; and that same sense of finality, projected into the future to become the inevitability of events as they will work themselves out, is Destiny. In other words, fate relates to events of the past and is proven to be true and unalterable, whereas destiny relates to the probable to almost certain future. Note that it is only almost certain and not absolutely certain, allowing for change to occur. Clyde never forgot his first days in West Dallas. Thinking of them in adulthood made him bitter. Only a child then, he recalled the humiliating experience of his family being forced to live for days under a viaduct with other transient families who had no place to go and no money to get them there even if they had. This can be seen in our common language usage, e.g. "His calling, his destiny was to be a gangster." Well he definitely became a gangster because Clyde was unfortunate to be born into a very poor family and those conditions influenced the outcome of his life and that became Clyde"s destiny. Therlee Gipson Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Life & Time of Bonnie & Clyde: Fate and Destiny