Comparison Between Perry And Dick

Although Dick and Perry may both be killers, Capote uses language to portray Perry as a victim of Dick;therefore, Perry is seen through the eyes of the reader as an innocent man who was simply taken advantage of and molded into a killer by Dick.

Joe doesn't like this so he criticizes Janie daily about how she looks he makes her put her hair up. In the store Janie cuts tobacco for Steve Mixon but she cuts it wrong and Joe gets angry, and he yells at her “I god amighty! A woman stay round uh store till she get old as Methusalem and still can’t cut a little thing like a plug of tobacco! Don’t stand dere rollin’ yo’ pop eyes at me wid yo’ rump hangin’ nearly to yo’ knees!” (Hurston 92-93). Janie gets mad also and replies, “Stop mixin’ up mah doings wid mah looks, Jody. When you git through tellin’ me how tuh cut uh plug uh tobacco, then you kin tell me whether mah behind is on straight or not”(Hurston 86). Janie sticks up for herself after years of Joe controlling her and beating her. Janie waxes stronger and learns that the way she feels is just as important as the way Joe feels or anyone else. While Joe is dying Janie goes into his room and tells him that he isn't the same person that she ran away with that he changed for worse. After he dies she does something for herself, Hurston writes “The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place. She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair. The weight, the length, the glory was there. She took careful stock of herself, then combed her hair and tied it back up again”(103-104). Janie letting her hair down is symbolic of her freedom and independence she is done with Joe

The brutal diction and sadistic atmosphere that picturize Perry’s childhood leads the audience to revisit their initial impression of him. With a further glimpse into the man’s background, Capote can continue his focus on providing a larger picture. In order to expand on Perry, Capote builds off of his physical trauma and discusses the emotional trauma that he had to face concerning his parents and siblings. His parents were separated and his mom became drunk who did not care for him and eventually he had a falling out with his father and with the multiple deaths of his siblings, Perry Smith revisited these memories many times. His sister, Fern-Joy was a drunk who “fell from the window of a hotel room. Falling she struck a theater marquee, bounced off it, and rolled under the wheels of a taxi” (116), his brother Jimmy “who had one day driven his wife to suicide and killed himself the next” (69), and his mother, “an alcoholic, had strangled to death on her own vomit” (69). According to Capote, such drastic changes had lead Perry to some serious changes in which human life is not something important and is simply expendable. As the writer, he does not believe that Perry’s involvement in the Clutter murder is forgivable but rather, compassion and sympathy should be shown toward him due to his unfortunate circumstances. Additionally, Capote believes that there should be an acknowledgement of

Throughout the novel, In Cold Blood, the two murderers, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, show instances of unwarranted anger and aggression that leads readers into believing that a serious issue with their psyches have occurred.

Part two of the novel, Perry's backstory is revealed and the reader is compelled to sympathize with Perry much more than before. It is shown that Perry's father left him and his mother when he was young and that his mother turned to alcohol to cope. Alcohol is demonized in the eyes of Perry due to his mother's dependency on it. This helps to depict Perry as an honest man who wants to be a functioning member of society, rather than the drunken mess that is his mother. Perrys early life is shown to be a very abusive and unwelcoming place for a child, these facts are presented without mention of his involvement with street gangs and petty crime. The true backstory of Perry Smith is indeed a sad one, but it also

The two men’s criminal history continues with their petty crimes, although it is known that Perry has bigger dreams, ones that do not contain crime. In the next chapter the loud shouts of Kenyon summoning Nancy mimic the car horn, “Good grief, Kenyon! I hear you” (17). Planning on teaching a neighbor’s daughter how to bake a pie, Nancy’s classic American girl personality is found to be exemplary. The two scenes create an opposition of Nancy’s innocent act of baking a pie to the corruption of Dick and Perry’s criminal

Joe ends up becoming the Mayor, Post Master, storekeeper, and the biggest landlord in the town. Although this is all fine for him, Janie in the mean time is not happy with the relationship and struggles to deal with it. Over the years Janie places all of her old dreams into the corner of her soul. She submits to Jody's need for control on the outside but on the inside she hides her real feelings and her real self. At one of the town meetings someone asks for a “few words uh encouragement from Mrs. Mayor Starks” and Joe replies buy saying, “Thank yuh fuh yo’ compliments, but mah wife don’t know nothin’ ‘bout no speech-makin’. Ah never married her for nothin’ lak dat. She’s uh woman and her place is in de home”(41) After hearing this from Joe, Janie feels as though, “that took the bloom off of things”(41). She is no longer truly in love with him anymore. After Joe dies, Janie feels free for the first time in years. Janie is in the room when Joe dies and soon after, she walks across the room to the mirror and tells herself that she, “The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place”(83). Janie becomes a more independently thinking woman after his death because she doesn’t have the restriction that Joe forced on her. She is free from Joes dominant self and can now do what she pleases, which ends up being a very good thing for her.

Confused, Dr. Powell asked Prot to explain why Peter tried to commit suicide. Prot resists, but Dr. Powell pushes. He tells Prot it's okay if his friend did something to his wife and daughter. Outraged by this comment Prot tries to grab Powell's neck, but falls to the floor crying, devastated. Dr. Powell digs into the story and goes to New Mexico where he finds out Peter is from. Dr. Powell learns from the local sheriff that Peter is actually Robert Porter and Prot is Robert. Roberts family was killed by a man, Daryl Walker, and Robert killed him for it. He then jumped in the river behind his house. He lives and takes Prot, a delusion he's had from a young age, and embodies him, believing he is an alien from the planet

The reason why Perry was so lonely and may have been mentally lost is because of his family’s history. “His mother, an alcoholic, had strangled to death on her own vomit” (Capote 110) Not having his mother in his life because he was always under the influence of alcohol, Perry didn’t have anyone to talk to, not even some of his siblings. Perry had three siblings to talk to his feelings about but only him and his sister lived long enough. “Fern, the other daughter, jumped out of a window of a San Francisco hotel...And then there was Jimmy, the older boy-Jimmy, who had one day driven his wife to suicide and killed himself the next.” (Capote 110) Capote tells us about Perry’s family to show that because of their mother, there was something also wrong with the children. If two ended up committing suicide it does not sound crazy that another son committed a mass murder. There has been a trait that has been passed down from his mom to his siblings that made them act the way they acted. This gives us the impression that Perry had acted this way because of being neglected as a child from his alcoholic

Gnomeo backs up on the road and gets hit by a car. Everyone thinks Gnomeo is dead, but he actually survived. Mrs. Blue tells Bent to get revenge for the Blues. Benny orders a monster lawn mower which goes out of control and destroys everything. Gnomeo saves Juliet right before she is about to get killed which makes the Reds and Blues end their rivalry with a happily ever after.

Dick Hickock and Eric Harris are the same in many ways. The first way they are similar is they

In this chapter, Capote includes anecdotes and quotes that suggest the murders were plagued by inconsistencies and contradictions. As a result, the outcome of the crime was doomed, as were the lives of its perpetrators. First, the crime itself was conceptualized in prison, becoming a collaboration between individuals, who, by virtue of their previous actions, were untrustworthy. Based on recollections of a fellow inmate, Floyd Wells, Dick learned about the Clutter family and its affluence. Floyd described a safe in the house that contained cash. Robbing the Clutters, taking their cash and destroying witnesses became the essence of Dick and (later) Perry’s plan.

Tucker and Richard and the same. The both like fishing and are both courageous. ALso saved people.

Dick and Perry to show the two different type of criminal cases, one who has been debatably “made” a murderer by the way he was brought up and another who, motivated by himself, created violence. Capote allows the reader to make their own decision when considering the justice system and capital punishment, but more importantly he takes a stand on the side of fairness based on special circumstances. In the case of Dick and Perry they both received testing to see if either criminal qualified as insane and although Perry tested positive and Dick didn’t they received the same punishment. Capote explores the ability to permit an analysis on the past

The American music industry in 1959 was in critical conditions: amidst the death of many of its main artists and the payola scandal which dragged down many of the independent labels, the industry drastically changed as the majors became the new key players in the market. As the Vintage Years of rock and roll drew to a close, new genres of music were being created to effectively target the emerging demographic segments: one of them was surf rock, or as it was later called hot rod music. One of its pioneers was Dick Dale: with Deltone Records he recorded “Let’s Go Trippin” in 1961 which is considered to be the “first surf rock song” (Brackett 208) creating the “surf craze”. This