“I don’t blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don’t know if anyone would believe anything good of me anyway,”-Billy the Kid. Although many people believe Billy the kid was a bad person, there are many stories of Billy that make him seem like a carefree and funny person. Billy the Kid had to overcome lots of obstacles in his life and those hardships are what made him a bad person. “Billy’s real name was Henry McCarty,he was also known as William H. Bonney” (2 “Billy”). Many rumors have been stated about Billy the Kid for years, but what is the real life of Billy the Kid? When Billy was still a child his mother remarried a guy named William Antrim but she shortly died of Tuberculosis. “Antrim didn’t want the burden of raising two small boys, so he separated them and placed them in foster homes” (Brothers). “At the age of 14, the smooth-cheeked, blue-eyed McCarty was forced to find work in a hotel, washing and waiting tables at the restaurant” (“Old”). Before Billy’s mother died he had a younger brother named Joseph, who is also known as Joe. Billy and his brother ran around town with other boys their age because there was …show more content…
It is known that Billy had a great sense of humor. Many people said he was sometimes good natured and generous. Billy the kid's friends say he was very optimistic, cunning, and reckless. He was said to be very dependable and would risk his life for those he cared about. Billy’s most famous gunfight was in the Lincoln County War. Billy was fighting “against Irishman James Dolan was the most notorious and caused the most bloodshed” (“Brothers”). Sheriff Murphy had ordered his men to hunt down John Tunstall, who happened to be Billys mentor and friend. After he was murdered, Billy wanted revenge on the men that killed Mr. Tunstall. Billy and his friends lost the fight and fled as soon as it was
During Reuven's recovery at the hospital, he develops a cherished relationship with a cheerful young boy named Billy Merrit. Though he has suffered the loss of both his eyesight and his mother in an auto accident, Billy overcomes the tragedies that have plagued his life and continually lavishes his compassion on others. Recognizing Billy's loneliness, Reuven affectionately befriends him. Reuven and Billy's mutual loving sympathy certainly makes a crucial
In the short story by Roald Dahl, Billy is seventeen years old. This is untrue for the episode. Billy is eighteen in the episode. The screenwriter probably believed that seventeen years old would not be old enough to start working for a company in the time his episode was made, so he changed Billy from seventeen to eighteen which is old enough to work. Moreover, Billy shows signs of being poisoned in only the episode.
To the casual eye, Billy looks like the typical bad boy. A boy that ran away from home, showing his rebellious tendencies. A boy that would most certainly be a bad influence over anyone. However, as we take a closer look into Billy's true personality,
Billy a troubled neighborhood boy, effected Jeannette’s childhood. He was constantly trying to mess with her. One day when all the kids were out playing hide and seek Billy hid with Jeannette. He forced himself on her and said he “raped her”.
As Billy grew up he participated in running events, His first even Billy was the fastest runner in his team. One day Billy meets up with another runner who was the fastest runner too, and this was the only time Billy lost a race. He was upset but he wasn’t discouraged. Billy raced again with his competitor and he won. So the people were amazed at how fast he was. A man approached Billy and asked him if he wanted to join baseball and Billy was up for the challenge. He did so well and became famous. After playing for baseball for a long time Billy got married and had four children and stopped playing baseball and the older he got he become sick and passed
Billy the Kid is one of the most famous outlaws in American history. He has been a widely told figure in American history as well as folklore. The have made movies from his history and have also wrote many books on him. Most of Billy the Kids life remains a heated controversy throughout America.
Billy the Kid was just a normal kid and then it all started he stole something."He stole some butter and sold it to a silver city store.".William Henry McCarty Jr. also known as “Billy the Kid” was caught with his brother and sent to prison for petty thief. Shortly after his mother died of tuberculosis. His father left or died and billy was orphaned at the age of 15. “Billy the Kid” was killed by sheriff Patrick Garett after he killed his two guards and escaping from prison for killing sheriff Brady. From there it went downhill he started murdering even.Whenever he was older he started working for Tunstall ranch in the city. Then Jimmy Dolan took over the business. The loss of the store made the old owner Tunstall very angry. Tunstall said “The rancher told his men to ride with there guns loaded. The war was about to start”. It’s taking a stand because he didn't just let his store get taken
Billy Sunday was a professional baseball player from 1883 to 1891 for Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia teams. He was born to William Sunday and Mary Jane Corey on November 19th 1862 and died on November 6th 1935. Growing up his family lived in poverty, but that never let this challenge affect his life. After his father died in 1862 Billy and his family move to go live his grandparents for a few years. Billy and his older brother were sent to live in Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home in Davenport, where they received a decent education and began to improve his athletic skills. When Billy was 14, he wanted to earn money, so he began to work for Colonel John Scott. Before long, he was offered to stay with the Scotts, who made sure that Billy went to
Although there are alternate theories or conspiracies on Billy the Kid, the main theory accepted by conspirators is that ‘Brushy Bill’ is Billy the Kid. This conspiracy is false, and is not the version I accept as the truth, for there are too many errors or holes in it.
When Henry McCarty was about 14, his mother died and his stepfather deserted any familial responsibility and ran away to Arizona after she passed. McCarty took his mother's death hard and frequently associated with the town troublemakers. Caught stealing food and later robbing a laundry service, McCarty seemed to search for trouble. Consequently, the sheriff apprehended and jailed him until the time of his hearing. Two days before the hearing, McCarty escaped out the jail's chimney and fled to Arizona, where he stayed with his father and worked as a ranch hand for a well-known rancher named Henry Hooker. Not long after he arrived, he came across Scottish criminal and former U.S Cavalry Private John
Billy is tough. He got into a fight with the kids at the town of Talequh when they starting teasing on his dogs.
Billy the kid is a criminal responsible for 21 deaths. If you see him, henry mccarty or william H.bonney tell the police immediately as they are all the same person.
Billy Budd is responsible for his own death. There are times when taking someone’s life is necessary such as a time of war, but not in a heating argument. Captain Vere, said it best that the crime is what they were worried about, not the case between right and wrong. The crime was murder. Billy was a hard worker who would do his best to help anyone out. However, Billy was not judged on the type of man he was he was judged by the action that had taken place.
During his stay at mental hospital he would bed next to a former infantry captain, Eliot Rosewater, where Rosewater would introduce him to the science novelist Kilgore Trout. Through the stories by Trout, Billy read about aliens and time traveling. From these ideas, influenced by Trout, Billy was able to make up his own stories and correlate them to his personal war experiences.
While constantly aware of Miss Drew’s situation, Billy can’t escape the realization of his position’s possible transiency and the fact that his life depends on his usefulness in the gang: “all I had to remember was how small of a mistake was sufficient to change my fortune, maybe even without knowing it. I was an habitual accomplice to murder. I could be arrested, tried, and sentenced, to death”(123). From this, Billy is impressed with one of the fundamental rules that accompanies inclusion in gang life—absolute loyalty to the gang’s interests. Billy observes the consequences of breaking this rule of loyalty when he hops onto the boat and into the scene of Bo’s sinking figure, and later, when Schulz’s personal life becomes complicated with a pending courtcase. The gang loyally relocates to the rural small town of Onondaga to help ensure the boss avoids jailtime. After painstakingly building an amiable reputation in the town for the Boss, Schultz’s temperament leads to “the president” Julie Martin’s murder in the hotel. The entire gang dutifully cleans the room and removes the body with cover up concluding with and unprepared Billy being punched in the face. After the fact, Billy comes to see the necessity of his subsequent broken nose yet is internally insulted and cannot shake the urge to “get revenge” (159). This affront to his own ego caused a shift