Al Capone Essay 10

Al Capone
Thesis:   From racketeering, bootlegging, and brotheling, Alphonse Capone is one of the
most well known and influential gangsters in history.

Al Capone, born to Gabriele and Teresina Capone, was born in Brooklyn, New
York.   At age 5 he starrted school at Public School no.7   on Adams street.   Al's school
had outbreaks of violence.   Male Students engaged in fist fights with female teachers.   At
age 14 he   engaged in a fight between himself and a teacher.   He was expelled and he
never returned to school again.
One of the biggest impacts on his life was when he and his family moved across
town.   This is where he would meet his wife, Mae and gangster Johnny Torrio.   Al was
exposed to Johnny Torrio because Johnny's headquarters was only a few blocks away.   Al
earned pocket money by running errands for Johnny Torrio.   "Torrio taught Capone the
importance of leading an outwardly respectiable life to segregate his career
from his home
life, as if maintaining a peacefull, conventional domestic setting somehow excused or
legitimized the venality of workingin the rackets.   I was a form of hypocrisg that was
second nature to Johnny Torrio and that taught Capone to honor" (A&E Biography. Al
Capone, Scareface).   Like youths of his time he ran in territorial gangs at first he was with
the South Brooklyn Rippers, then the Forty Thieves, and lastly the Five Point Juniors.
Capone worked hard at boreing jobs he cut paper and other odd jobs. One of his jobshe
worked at the Harward Inn as a barr tender and a bouncer.   He became popular to his
customersand his boss.


One day he waited tables on a young man and his female companion.   She was
Beautiful to the young Capone.   He leaned over and told her, "Honey, you have a nice ass
and I mean that as a compliment."   The young man hit Al.   Al's temper began to rise.   The
man pulled a knife and cut him three times in the face.   The young man told Lucky
Luciano what happened.   Then Luciano went to... [continues]

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