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"Among garden city's animals are two gray tomcats who are always together-thin, dirty strays with strange and clever habits." (Capote 246)
I thought that the cats were a reference to Dick and Perry, "strays with strange and clever habits." which makes me think of them.

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"He was sorry he felt as he did about her, for his sexual interest in female children was a failing of which he was "sincerely ashamed"-- a secret he'd not confessed to anyone and hoped no one suspected (though he was aware that Perry had a reason to). That, to be sure, was something he had done "eight or nine" times in the last several years. (Capote 201)

(Q)I find it deeply disappointing and shocking that Dick would behave this way towards young children based on the lines in the book. If he is truly sorry, then why did he do this at least several times before in the past and why does he still act like a pedophile now?

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"No, Bobo, I'm talking. Shut up, or I'll throw you in the river. Like once when I was walking across a bridge in Japan, and a guy was standing there, I never saw him before, I just picked him up and threw him in the river.
Please Bobo. Please listen. You think I like myself? Oh, the man I could have been! But (he; Perry's father) never gave me a chance. He wouldn't let me go to school. ...I happen to have a brilliant mind. ...But no education, because he didn't want me to learn anything, only to tote and carry for him. Dumb. Ignorant. That's the way he wanted me to be. So that I could never escape him."
(Capote 185)
It is a common saying that "your real self comes out when you're drinking," which is why I felt this excerpt was really significant. Perry tells his sister the truth of his childhood with his Father, Tex Smith, and how he had worked Perry like a mule. Perry claims that all he was to his father was "somebody he could work their guts out and never pay them one hot dime." Perry's childhood with his father is the prelude to his current view on the world, as he doesn't want to work for money nor appreciate those who do; those who are "well-off" and "conventional" are those Perry loathes the most.

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"Mr. Hickock invited the detectives into the kitchen, and Mrs. Hickock offered them coffee. Perhaps if they had known the true meaning of the caller's presence, the reception tendered him would have been less gracious, more guarded. But they did not know, and during the hours the three sat conversing, the name Clutter was never mentioned, or the word murder. The parents accepted that Nye implied--that parole violation and financial fraud were all that motivated his pursuit of their son." (Capote 168-169)
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I thought this passage was very interesting because to me it is about two parents and a detective talking about the murder of the family, but none of them ever mentions the idea of murder.

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¨Perry, still reclining under the blue umbrella, had observed the scene and realized Dick's purpose at once, and despised him for it; he had "no respect for people who can't control themselves sexually," especially when the lack of control involved what he called "pervertines"-"bothering kids," "queer stuff," rape. And he thought he had made his views obvious to Dick; indeed, hadn't they almost had a fist fight when quite recently he had prevented Dick from raping a terrified young girl?"  (Capote 202)
(Q) Why was Dick trying to rape a young girl? Why'd Capote include this in the text? Why would Dick continue if Perry had made his views obvious? Would Dick of continued if Perry didn't stop him?

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“….she was the only survivor…." | 183 | I found this important because Mrs.Johnson was the only “Decent person” in her family. She is the only one in her family that did not commit suicide  or go down a path of crime. I think that if she just stay away from Perry her life would be fine but if she try's to connect with Perry her life might go down a little but she is helping Perry. This is because of the fact that Perry just wants someone to always be by his side.

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"Dick was talking about killing Mr. Clutter. Said him and Perry was gonna go out there and rob the place, and they was gonna kill all witnesses." (Capote 161)

I thought this was terrifying because the fact that they talked about killing people without showing any type of remorse is just cruel. The Clutter family all died and I'm pretty sure it was Dick and Perry that killed them....

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"But when the crowd caught sight of the murderers, with their escort of blue-coated highway patrolmen, it fell silent, as though amazed to find them humanly shaped." (Capote 248)
The crowd didn't expected them to be normal people, they envisioned them as monsters.

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“The plan was to rob the safe, and if we were seen-- well, whoever saw us would have to go.” | 233 | This passage might possibly be revealing a motive for their crime. Perry states that dick knew of the safe and planned to steal money from it. The passage also reveals that Dick was the instigator and was perfectly content with killing whoever saw them.

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“And we talked  about Dick; I was curious, see, what he’d been saying to her. Seems she’d ask him why he did things like this. Rob people. And, wow, did he toss her a tearjerker-said he’d been raised an orphan in an orphanage, and how nobody has ever loved him, and his only relative was a sister who lived with men without marrying them. All the time we were talking, we could hear the lunatic roaming around below, looking for the safe.” (Capote 242)
(A/E) In these lines Dick tells Nancy why he is the way he is. I wonder if he did this because he feels bad for what he does to people, or he knows that she is about to die and cant do anything about it. I also think that its nice that he was opening up with her and sharing some personal info that some people wouldn’t usually share with others.

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“Among Garden City’s animals are two gray tomcats who are always together---thin, dirty strays with strange and clever habits (Capote 246.)
(A/E) Capote talks about the cats as almost being both Perry and Dick by saying that the cats are strays with strange and clever habits. Capote shows this because even Dewey recalled both of Perry and Dick being thin. He also talks about the cats having clever habit, he refers to both's intelligence. As we know both Perry and Dick are intelligent.

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“I didn’t want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat” (Capote 244). (A/E) Perry claims to have liked Mr. Clutter and the rest of the family; this may appear ironic at first, but it reveals a lot about Perry's motivation for killing the Clutters. The killings appear to have been motivated by misdirected irritation and resentment that finds a symbolic object in the Clutters and the principles they symbolize, rather than a genuine hatred of this particular family. The family is unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end of this rage, but they are not the source of it.

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“The crime was a psychological accident, virtually an impersonal act; the victims might as well have been killed by lightning. Except for one thing: they had experienced prolonged terror, they had suffered. And Dewey could not forget their sufferings. Nonetheless, he found it possible to look at the man beside him 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 or another.” (Capote 245-246)
Agent Dewey can't help but find sympathy for Perry due to his horrifically abusive past. He wonders at this as Perry's unhappy childhood had shaped his future. He finds that he just can't condemn Perry even though he had performed such brutal act of murder. And not just Dewey, but others such as Mrs. Meier seems to hold sympathy for Perry.

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“….she was the only survivor; and what tormented her was the thought that in time she, too, would be overwhelmed: go mad, or contract an incurable illness, or in a fire lose all she valued–home, husband, children.” (Capote, Page 183)

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This is such a coincidence because Mrs. Johnson is also known as Perry’s sister is the only “normal” one in the family with a decent family. She has kids and a husband. Even though 2 of her siblings decided to commit suicide and Perry chose the path of crime and murder. She’s the only one who has a good life. But again, I can’t really jump to conclusions because Perry might choose his path because of what his other siblings have done. Some people take grief in a very wrong way. Maybe he was young when that happened, or he thought they were actually murdered rather than knowing they committed suicide. There are just so many questions about this. Although half of her siblings are dead and one just chooses the side of being a criminal. I think she should really step up her game a little bit more. She should try to talk to Perry more and change him. I mean she is the closest relative he has since she is actually the only one who writes to him while he was in jail. So there’s a possibility of her trying to change Perry’s mind and ways are 52%. Because in chapter 2, we found out that Perry just wants to be loved.

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“Among Garden City’s Animals Are two gray tomcats who are always together- thin, dirty strays with strange and clever habits"(Capote 246). (Q) The question I have from this quote is what is Truman Capote trying to get across saying that there are two tomcats who are together? Is he trying to use these animals as a symbol for Dick and Perry because they are really close.

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“ And Dewey could not forget their sufferings. Nonetheless. He found it possible to look at the man beside him without anger--with. Rather, a measure of sympathy for Perry Smith’s life had been no bed of roses by pitiful, an ugly and lonely progress toward one mirage or another. Dewey's sympathy, however, was not deep enough to accommodate either forgiveness or mercy.” (Capote 246)
(A/E)In this part, Agent Dewey felt some kind of sympathy for Perry since he had a traumatizing past and it shows that this could’ve all been an accident. He thinks that Perry's past influenced the murder but at the same time, he doesn't want to show forgiveness since they did murder an innocent family.

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“Perry Smith killed the Clutters”He lifted his head,and slowly straightened up in the chair,like a fighter staggering to his feet.”It was Perry.I couldn’t stop him.He killed them all”
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(A/E)Here Capote shows us how Dick accused Perry of killing the Clutters.This shows Dick’s cowardice at how he doesn’t want to get convicted and blames it on Perry.He admitted before how he should silenced Perry long ago so incase they got caught there would be no one to tell the truth.

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“Perry looked at the invalid, still somnolent, dazed, deaf, and he looked at the boy, who returned his gaze calmly, not begging, not “asking for anything,” and Perry remembered himself at that age, his own wandering with an old man" (Capote 209).
In this piece of evidence, we are able to see the connection between Perry and the young boy. From the little information given to us from this part of In Cold Blood about the little boy, we know that the boy is accompanied by an old man. This is where the parallel comes in. When Perry was younger, he accompanied his father too. The both of them seem to be a vagabond who’s chasing after a dream of stability. Perry relied on stealing coins, while the kid relied on collecting bottles.

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"But when the crowd caught sight of the murderers, with their escort of blue-coated highway patrolmen, it fell silent, as though amazed to find them humanly shaped." (Capote 248)
The crowd expected them to look very big and mean but once the whole crowd got sight of them, they had silence because the murderers looked so normal, so there was confusion when they came out of the car.