Perry Smith

making Perry look like a good person he had already become at least close friends with Perry, but it had not been his goal to show Perry in a better light, rather it was just a product of his infatuation.The final reason that Capote wrote the book In Cold Blood was to show the good sides of Perry Smith. Now, up to the point where Capote fully devoted his book to making Perry look like a good person he had already become at least close friends with Perry, but it had not been his goal to show…

other than “[it is a] useless expense” (Capote 37). Possibly, Dick was lying either because he truly enjoyed the pleasure of killing or he wanted to experience it for the first time. Again, Hickock displays his apathy when he decides to abandon Perry right before his arrest. Though he never gets to carry out his plan, it has the heartless motive that makes him who he is. Hickock does have some sympathy towards his parents. He worries before he writes bad checks if it will affect them. He…

significant claims surrounding the Clutter Family mass murder are unreliable, as he is strongly biased towards one of the killers. Capote’s portrayals of the two murderers, Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Smith, vary, as Capote draws sympathy in favor of Perry. Capote, himself, developed an attachment to Perry, and his writing clearly favors him. Capote is not subtle about his portrayal of Richard “Dick” Hickock. Dick is portrayed as an impulsive, narrow minded…

and gentlemen, Perry Edward Smith brutally murdered Mrs. Clutter, Nancy Clutter, Kenyon Clutter, and Herb Clutter on the night of November 15, 1959. This man intruded into the Clutter family’s normal life and killed them in cold blood. We are confident that ultimately Smith will be sentenced to capital punishment due to his cold blooded and brutal murder of the family, his indifference toward his victims and other human beings, and for being a threat to society. Not only did Smith premeditate…

Imagine reading a book detailing the senseless slaying of four innocent lives and actually feeling sorry for the brutal killers. The book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote illustrates the murdering of the Clutter Family. The book appears to be a tell all about the killers’ and how their backgrounds and family history played a key role in how they got the title of cold blooded killers’. The Clutters were what some would call the perfect american family. They seemed to have everything that anyone…

of the murderers, Perry Smith, seems to hold in more than what one man can handle, which leads to the murders of the Clutter family: Nancy, Bonnie, Herb and Kenyon. Although Perry Smith’s action seems evil or immoral if taken at face value, Capote’s full presentation of his past circumstances and psychiatric analysis makes the reader react more sympathetically than they otherwise would. On the basis of actions alone, the murder and thievery of the Clutter family by Perry Smith seem like evil…

different perspectives leading up to the conclusion behind the actions of the Clutter murders.Throughout the book Capote talks about the murders and the ones responsible for them, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. Throughout the book Capote shows effectively how, at the time, the justice system looks past Perry Smith’s mental state of being, because of his actions. Capote uses several language elements to build several perspectives to the culprits and their motiveless crime giving it meaning that…

as the cold-blooded killer throughout the book. While Perry was talking to detective Duntz, he mentions that “ Dick suggests that “after [they’ve] found the safe, [they will] cut their throats.” (Capote 239). Perry explains in the book that robbing the Clutters and then killing them was all Dick’s scheme. Perry also disclosed that he “gave the gun to Dick.” “[Dick] took aim, and [Nancy] turned her face to the wall…” (Capote 245). Again Perry restated…

In Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, are portrayed as polar opposites. Dick is found cold and ruthless by the reader whereas Perry is found kind and intelligent. The reader views their personalities as contrasting. Ostensibly, Capote portrayed the protagonists in such contrasting ways in order to persuade the reader that only one man could have delivered the fatal bullets that would end the lives of the Clutter family. Capote’s writing displays the monstrous…

Cold Blood, Truman Capote—an openly gay man—gives some evidence that the two men, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, shared an intimacy beyond a simple friendship. Within the novel, Dick and Perry display very traditional male and female gender roles. Upon introducing Perry, he is seen with “a guitar, and two big boxes of books and maps and songs, poems and old letters” (Capote 25). In contrast to Perry, Dick is then seen with a “twelve-gauge pump-action shotgun, brand-new, blue-barreled, and with…