Analysis Of ' Mrs. Johnson

This essay discusses Perry’s upbringing, as a child,was not very enjoyable, he was born healthy, but had a struggling father And drunk for days mother, when he was old enough to know right from wrong, his mother took him away from his father, Perry wanted to stay even said he will run away to come back to his father, but he never succeeded, until his mother kicked him out at a young age as stated “ I took my boy back to his mother and left the City. Perry later told me, his mother told him to find a new home.”(Pg79,In Cold Blood) and he went back to his happy life,and he went to school, but he did not like it, so him wanting to go was his choice but when they moved that changed.

In movies there is always a villain or bad guy to ruin someone’s life or career. The only reason why they go after that person is because of jealously, money, or hatred. It is not always easy for villains or temptresses to get their targets, so they have to come up with clever ideas to lure their victims in. In the movie The Natural Harriet Byrd’s killing spree started off as jealously towards people who are very experienced in what they do and only want fame and fortune from it. When Harriet sees how much potential Roy Hobbs has in playing baseball, she then tries figures out what he wants from his extraordinary talent making him her next victim due to his answer.

On Detective Nye’s hunt for Perry and Dick he talks to Perry’s sister Mrs, Johnson. Mrs, Johnson is scared, scared of Perry. Her feelings towards Perry is a scared connotation, “‘But I’m afraid of him. I always have been. He can seem so warm-hearted and sympathetic. Gentle. He cries so easily. Sometimes music sets him off, and when he was a little boy he used to cry because he thought the sunset was beautiful. Or the moon. Oh, he can fool you. He can make you feel so sorry for him’...but was it simply Perry she feared, or was it a configuration of which he was part---the terrible

Truman Capote saw Perry as being superior to others in his uniqueness and, since he is “absent” from the novel, expressed this opinion in Willie-Jay’s character accounts of Perry. After asserting Willie-Jay’s legitimacy, Capote presents the farewell letter that Willie-Jay wrote to Perry. In it, Willie-Jay analyzes Perry in a psychologist-like manner; he writes:

Mrs. Mallard and Mrs. Sommers have a fair share of intemperance. Mrs. Mallard has come to the realization that the death of her husband is not only a tragic occurrence, but also a beneficial cutting of her previously binding marital ties. The crisis of her grief has given her new insight on her life, and Mrs. Mallard understands that her marriage has limited her independence and freedom. Due to this realization she immediately forgets about the accident and starts to think about her freedom: ““Free! Body and soul free!” she kept whispering” (paragraph 14). It is only an hour after Mrs. Mallard has received the bitter news of her husband’s death. Considering that her husband is gone, instead of mourning, she is overwhelmed with the freedom she

Through Perry’s sister, Barbara Johnson’s point of view, Capote recalls the bad luck surrounding the Florence Buckskin and Tex John Smith family: “The eldest, the brother she loved, had shot himself; Fern had fallen out of a window, or jumped; and Perry was committed to violence, a criminal” (Capote 183). Capote follows the excerpt with in-depth explanations of each child’s downfall. By structuring his description of the anomaly surrounding Perry’s family this way, Capote is able to establish that there is, in fact, a perceived curse and that the curse has caused the family member’s inauspicious actions. Moreover, if Perry is one of Fate’s victims, then he is not liable for killing the Clutter family, Fate

Following the emotionally ‘flat’ perspective by Dick, is Perry’s self-pity attitude during his own chapter. Perry knows the annoyance of his voice to Dick, but has no control over his actions. With only having one thought repeated indefinitely, “I think there must be something wrong with us” (capote 30), one would need to vent in some manner. To continue, Perry’s pity persona even has the author himself take pity on him: “Look at his family!” (Capote 30). Capote demands the reader to acknowledge Perry’s grim adolescence and suicidal family: “His mother, an alcoholic, had strangled to death on her own vomit...Fern...jumped out a window...Jimmy...had one day driven his wife to suicide and killed himself the next” (Capote 30). Capote pities Perry and portrays him as human, instead of the monster everyone believes him to be. Capote explains how Perry’s mental state and upcoming is the reason he is mentally unstable. Capote exposes not all criminals are monsters. Referring back to Dick’s passage, Dick claims “Perry could be “such a kid,” always wetting the bed and crying in his sleep” (Capote 29). Perry never matured from his depressing childhood, and he remained a in this state into adulthood. Returning to Perry’s

Capote’s diction makes Perry seem like a moral human being. For instance, Capote writes, “All along Dewey had argued that the mattress box had been placed on the floor for the comfort of Mr. Clutter, and taking heed of similar hints, other fragmentary indications of ironic,

Capote describes and effectively develops the character of Perry Smith by giving us a small glimpse into Perry Smith’s childhood. Perry Smith had an anything but ordinary childhood. Perry had a horrible childhood. This was due to the fact that his parents split apart and he was treated awfully in the places that took him in. Perry’s first horrible experience was in an orphanage. “ The one where the Black Widows were always at me. Hitting me. Because of wetting the bed. Which is one reason I have an aversion to nuns.”( Perry Smith, pg. 206). The nuns beat Perry because he would wet the bed. He would wet the bed because of a weak kidney. Perry was also almost killed by a salvation army nurse. The nurse tried to drown him. “A children’s shelter operated by the Salvation Army. They hated me, too. For wetting the bed. And being half-Indian. There was this one nurse, she used to call me ‘nigger’ and say there wasn’t any difference between niggers and Indians. Oh, Jesus, was she an Evil Bastard! Incarnate. What she used to do, she’d fill a tub with ice-cold water, put me in it, and hold me under till I was blue. Nearly drowned.”(Perry Smith, pg. 206). The constant beatings would give just about anyone a bad childhood to begin with; but it could also lead into the anger and mental issues that Perry suffers

By revealing so many details about Perry’s terrible childhood, Capote appears sympathetic to Perry. For example, the letter from Perry’s father, which reflects Perry’s childhood in depth, forces the reader to feel something towards Perry. In the third section of the novel, Answer, Alvin Dewey’s sympathy for Perry is mentioned and described: “Perry Smith’s life had been no bed of roses but pitiful, and ugly and lonely progress…”. Also the inclusion of a conversation between two newsmen where one of the men refers to the whole trial as unfair is another example of Capote’s sympathy. Capote’s sympathy causes the reader to see Perry as a person just trying to feel masculine and pulls focus from the fact that he murdered at least two people,

Through a life of crime, Perry pursues a life that differs from his childhood that was filled with abuse, loneliness, and abandonment. At the hands of the Smith and Hickock, the Clutter family never got to live out the American Dream to its full potential. The actions of Smith and Hickock led the police to demolish any chance of them to live out the small portion of the American Dream that they were able to achieve. Capote effectively described the fragility of the American Dream as it is pried from the Clutter family by Smith and Hickock. Capote also proves to be effective in his ability to provoke empathy for the darkest of people. “Hot islands and buried gold, diving deep in fire-blue seas toward sunken treasure—such dreams were gone. Gone, too was "Perry O'Parsons," the name invented for the singing sensation of stage and screen that he'd half-seriously hoped someday to be,” (Capote 202). By reiterating the death of Perry’s dream and his piteous upbringing, the reader has a sense of forgetfulness of the murder he committed and directs the attention to the feelings and intentions of Perry. When evaluated the intention of both Perry and the Clutter family was to achieve theirs

Although Perry commits a ghastly offense he still contains another compassionate side to him, Capote’s importance is to tell readers Perry can be sweet too, therefore; he contends even though a person commits a crime doesn’t mean they are inferior.

Have you ever felt that you knew you your home but then realized that it actually wasn’t what you thought it really was? Well, that’s how Jacqueline Woodson felt. As we grow and change, so do our perspectives on a variety of things that we experience in life. In, When a Southern Town Broke a Heart, Woodson introduces ideas changing as you get older as a central idea of the story.

In “In Cold Blood” (1966) from page 200 to 202, Capote give us the insight into the past of Dick and Perry characters that caused them to resent a certain type of situation or condition. The author acknowledge this matter by showing how Dick and Perry nature being revealed through what they seen and encounter on their get away trip, first he inform us about how the view of the sea, and people Dick see in the hotels remind him of how he growth to feel hostile against people who possessed thing that he known he couldn’t have, “Why should that sonofabitch have everything, while he had nothing? Why should that “big shot bastard” have all the luck?” (Rhetorical question and Parallelism were used to emphasize Dick animosity), “open them up and let

Therefore, Capote successfully convinces readers that Perry’s nature is not completely guilty of the murder, but the way he nurtured was. To continue on, Capote utilizes diction to highlight positive side that Perry has in order to convince readers that Perry is not 100% evil. During the conversation with Perry, Dewey thought it is possible to see Perry without anger. “with, rather, a measure of sympathy --for Perry Smith’s life had been no bed of roses but pitiful, an ugly and lonely progress toward one mirage and then another”(Capote 246). In this quote, Capote utilizes diction to convince readers about Perry’s horrible past and how environment manipulated little Perry’s life that made him commit crime over and over again.