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Reflections Questions Part 3 of In Cold Blood

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English B Individual Oral Marking Criteria HL 2020 (1) 4

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After 3 days of short visit, I finally left the Holcomb village. I feel relieved. Through these 3 days, the weird atmosphere and the sense of horror in the village made me feel chilling. This village is not similar to any other villages I've been before. I guess it is better for me to escape.

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Feature Article: "The Untold Story Behind the Infamous ‘In Cold Blood’ Murder House"

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Feature Article: "The Untold Story Behind the Infamous ‘In Cold Blood’ Murder House"

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https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/in-cold-blood-murder-house-for-sale/
The feature article I've chosen is focusing on the cruel murder. It also focused on how the house has changed up til now.

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Sixty years ago, a prosperous farmer, his wife, and two of their children were murdered in their rural Kansas home in the middle of the night, by a pair of strangers. The slaying of the Clutter family in America's heartland and the ensuing search for the killers captivated a terrified nation. Writer Truman Capote's best-selling account of the crime, "In Cold Blood," became a literary classic-and catapulted the Clutter house into infamy.

The Clutters, their killers, even Capote himself, are all long gone. But remarkably, the 14-room farmhouse in Holcomb still stands, eerily looking much as it did that fateful night in 1959.

Long before it was an attraction for hordes of true-crime fans, sometimes undeterred by the prominent "Private Property" signs on the edge of the grounds, the Clutter home was the jewel of the small town of Holcomb. It has had a long, strange journey since then-from a source of community pride to infamous crime scene to movie location (portions of the film version of "In Cold Blood" were shot there), and finally back again to a family home.

Now, this four-bedroom home and the roughly 9 acres it sits on will be going on the market again. The question remains: Will it ever be able to shed its bloody past?

"It was a beautiful house," the Clutters' niece Diana Edwards said in the 2017 four-part documentary "Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders." "But nobody should have ever gone in it again."

Aerial view of the Clutter farm in Holcomb, Kansas in 1960.
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A horrifying discovery

Capote's book ingrained the Nov. 15, 1959, murders of Herb and Bonnie Clutter and their teenage children, Nancy and Kenyon, into America's psyche. Ex-convicts D ick Hickock and Perry Smith broke in to their home to search for a safe that did not exist, and killed all those present with a 12-gauge shotgun, so as to not leave any witnesses. (The Clutters also had two adult daughters who were no longer living at home.)

When no one answered the door the next morning, Nancy's friend N ancy Ewalt went inside to check on her.

"I saw Nancy in bed," Ewalt testified in the trial. "I thought she was sleeping or something, so I went over to shake her to try to wake her up and I saw blood all over the wall."

"I've seen some gory things in my time, but nothing as gory as that: what we found in the Clutter house Sunday morning," the coroner, Dr. Robert Fenton, said at the time.

Herb Clutter, 48, his wife, Bonnie, 45, son Kenyon, 15, and daughter, Nancy, 16
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A modern home that was the pride of its community

Just over a decade earlier, the two-story farmhouse designed and built by the Clutters was famous for quite a different reason. Stylish and modern, it was heralded as an achievement in the community when it was completed in 1948 at a cost of $40,000.

Here was a new house with 2.5 bathrooms at a time when not everyone in rural America had running water. At least one local newspaper ran photos of the family and their new residence on its cover.

The Clutters would host family gatherings, parties, and meetings for the local 4-H Club and Farm Bureau there.

"It was a really nice house for its time with a lot of innovations," says Laurie Oshel, assistant director of the Finney County Historical Society and Museum in Garden City, KS. (Holcomb is in Finney County.)

Oshel remembers that the kitchen cabinets went straight up to the ceiling, well out of reach for most homemakers. But in a clever solution, a board could be pulled out of the bottom drawers and used as a step.

The blond brick house stood out among the white stucco and wood siding that were popular in the area at the time, says Finney County Sheriff Kevin Bascue. It also had an unusually large basement, which would later become the site of Herb Clutter's murder.

Many visitors from outside the community are surprised the home wasn't simply demolished after the tragedy, but they aren't taking into consideration the realities of local life.

"People in the community are very practical," says Ralph F. Voss, author of "Truman Capote and the Legacy of 'In Cold Blood.'" "Why would you tear down a perfectly good house?"

The main street in Holcomb, Kansas, looking North. The Clutter place is a mile south and west.
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A blessing-and a curse-for recent owners

The spacious house was at first a blessing for its most recent owners, the late Leonard and Donna Mader, who purchased it in 1990. (Leonard died in 2007; he was 76. Donna died in July, at age 82.)

Like everyone else in that part of Kansas, the Maders were familiar with the murders; they even knew the family from the community. Leonard had farmed the land for the owner before him, a divorced cattle rancher named Bob Byrd. Byrd purchased the house in 1964 from a couple who had owned it for only a year after buying it from the surviving Clutter daughters and their husbands. Donna would play cards in the home with Byrd's son and daughter-in-law.

Sheriff Bascueremembers patrolling the Clutter farm in the mid-'80s, before he was promoted. Byrd was gone much of the time.

"People would go in and trespass," he recalls. "We would go every night, check the doors and windows, make sure everything was secure." Nonetheless, the location became a magnet for the curious-and even a make-out and party spot for local teenagers.

After Byrd committed suicide (not in the house), his relatives offered to sell the home to the Maders. It must have seemed fortuitous for the couple, who had six children and craved a larger home and farmland of their own.

"We had a lot of, you know, weird feelings," Donna Mader told The Oklahoman about moving into the home. "But after several years, you realize the house didn't do anything, and besides I keep my doors locked and we have dogs."

However, the house's notoriety became a problem in later years.

Truman Capote at the Clutter house during the filming of "In Cold Blood"
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The Maders had expected the attention from fans of the book and movie. But they didn't expect the fascination to endure for decades.

"It's probably one of the most famous houses in the United States," Leonard Mader was quoted as saying in an Associated Press article from the mid-1990s. "We have cars come down here every day, from England, France, Germany, Japan-you name it."

Their sons used to fire guns into the air to scare away curious trespassers, according to The Lawrence Journal-World.

Donna Mader's "feelings with the house was, just burn it," says Finney County Historical Society's Oshel, who heard this from a co-worker. "She was tired of being bothered."

Short stint as a tourist attraction

In an effort to turn a negative into a positive, the Maders began offering tours of the home in the early 1990s, charging $5 per visitor. They even considered turning it into a bed-and-breakfast.

"It's an odd situation-showing this house. I can't believe the way people are so curious and fascinated," Donna Mader told The Garden City Telegram a few months after the family began the tours. "Some people are just obsessed about what happened here."

But after a few years the tours were discontinued due to complaints. The home wasn't zoned for commercial use, so the new owners couldn't legally operate a business there.

Perhaps more importantly, "it was upsetting for some people who had ties to the house," says the Maders' daughter Sue Wieland.

In 2006, before Leonard's death, the Maders attempted to auction off the property. Open houses were held, drawing folks from all over but few serious buyers.

"It was too big for them," says Wieland, who was also the real estate agent. She was an adult when her parents bought the home and never lived there. "There were only two people, and it was an over 5,000-square-foot house. They wanted to get something smaller and downsize."

However, low bids and family troubles derailed the couple's plans to sell the property, says Wieland.

But now the home is going up for sale yet again.

Wieland hopes to have the house, which comes with a detached garage and two Quonset buildings for storage, back on the market within the next month or so. She's waiting on an appraisal, and relatives are looking after the property. She says there are already a few prospective buyers.

Small town has grown, but not much has changed

Holcomb has grown dramatically from just a few hundred residents in the late 1950s to just over 2,000 today, but it's still primarily a farm community of ranchers and farmers growing wheat, corn, alfalfa, and milo (a type of sorghum).

There's just one restaurant in the center of town, a Mexican joint called the El Rancho Cafe, across the street from a small grocery store/gas station. A Sonic Drive-In and a Subway sandwich shop are located at the edge of town.

The community has been buoyed by a beef-processing plant that opened just outside of town about 40 years ago. It employs more than 3,500 workers. It's also become something of a bedroom community for neighboring Garden City, just 7 miles west, with a population topping 26,500 as of last year, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. (Hickock and Smith, who killed the Clutter family, were tried there.)

The bottom line, though, is that it's still a small town, and there aren't a ton of buyers jostling for properties-much less one with a tragic past.

Eugene Hickock and Perry Smith
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Home's past may weigh on its future as it heads to market

What may wind up helping-or hurting-the sale of the Clutter house is that it's practically the same as when the Clutters lived there.

"Everything is original in that house, just about," says Wieland, who touted the two fireplaces as well as the bathroom on the main floor with a glass block enclosure for the bathtub and shower. "It's so different, but it's really neat."

But residences where brutal crimes took place typically sell for a 10% to 15% discount, say real estate appraisers. And while the stigma typically diminishes over time, the more famous the home, the more difficult it can be to find a buyer offering a good price.

If the home is in good shape, it could fetch anywhere from $150,000 to $200,000, theorizes local real estate agent Tamara Hunter of Heritage Realty.

But she believes it's more likely to appeal to an out-of-town buyer who's intrigued by the home's history. Locals, especially those with connections to the Clutter family, might be more hesitant. Plus, the home remains very isolated, shielded by a quarter-mile driveway.

"It was a good family and a sad memory," says Hunter, whose mother was friends with Nancy Clutter.

At a time when true crime is a wildly popular genre in books, TV, and podcasts, it seems unlikely that obsessions with this famous murder case, and the home in which it took place, will fade. The new owners will have to deal with all that attention, as well as their own feelings about the home's sad history.

"It amazes us that everyone is still fascinated by it," says Wieland. "There are people ... who drive up and down the lane and just stare at the house."

Denny Foreman grew up in Kansas hearing tales about the crime and wanted to see the home. In 2006, he drove 400 miles across Kansas to attend one of the open houses. Still, he doesn't think he'd be able to live there.

He took a picture of a red blemish on a basement wall, which the Maders told visitors was a bloodstain from when Herb Clutter was killed.

"You'd be consumed ... thinking about what happened there," says Foreman, now 64, of Lenexa, KY, who works for a residential appraisal management company. "I don't know how someone could get it out of their mind."
Natalie Way contributed to this report.

Clare Trapasso is the senior news editor of realtor.com and an adjunct journalism professor at St. John's University. She previously wrote for a Financial Times publication, the New York Daily News, and the Associated Press. She is also a licensed real estate agent with R New York. Contact her at clare.trapasso@realtor.com.

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Sixty years ago, a prosperous farmer, his wife, and two of their children were murdered in their rural Kansas home in the middle of the night, by a pair of strangers. The slaying of the Clutter family in America's heartland and the ensuing search for the killers captivated a terrified nation.

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reading reflection 2--end of part 1/ opening of part 2

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1. what sticks out to you about the behavior of Perry and dick at the end of part 1? what differences do this suggest in their personality? do you think the ending of part one is well written?
Answers: I think that Perry seems very exhausted, he sleeps for a long period of time. Dick, on the contrary, behaves quite normally. Although he seems a little tired, he still kisses his mother and eats with his family. I think the end of part I is well-written because there are a lot of descriptions of the details. The most memorable thing to me is that Perry's shoe becomes pink after being soaped in the water. This might be foreshadowing something.

Do you think "persons unknown" is a good title for part 2?
Answers: Yes. In part 1, the writer has already introduced the murder case, so in Part 2, the writer should focus on who is the murderer. The plot fits the title. Besides, the title creates a mysterious atmosphere in Part 2.

Choose 3 phrases from the opening chapter of part 2 that portray the author's craft. Give a reason for choosing each phrase.
1. blood soiled bedclothes:
this phrase symbolizes death and creates a sense of mystery.
2. teddy bear doll
this doll should belong to the little girl Nancy. This scene is quite sad to watch, and the author uses this object to exaggerate how brutal the killer is.
3. mooted pillow
the author describes the environment of the murder case. this indicates that the killer kills the family while they are asleep.

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chilling, indifferent, cruel, harsh, sad,
injury, inborn, death, pain, killing, murder, dangerous.
definition: cruel killing

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what are some of your first impressions of the characters?
Clutter: 48 years old, though he wore rimless glasses and was of average height, standing just under five feet ten. through this general information, I deduce he is just a typical middle-aged man. also, his teeth were unstained and strong enough to shatter walnuts, I deduce he is a clean, and strong man who cares about his own appearance.
Perry: "one cardboard suitcase, a guitar, and two big boxes of books and maps and songs, poems and old letters, weighing a quarter of a ton", through this information, we can know that he really loves books.

do you think the opening part is chilling?
Yes, I think the opening part is chilling. Because it describes some of the environment in the novel, it establishes some background information, and it introduces some basic environment about Kansas, which is barren, freezing, and gives people a chilling feeling.

Do you think the title in cold blood is good?
yes, because it exaggerated the dangerous atmosphere of the book. This also partially indicates that the story is related to a murder case.

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To economist of the society, you should recognize the problem brought by global warming. As the temperature grows higher, the down jacket market gains less and less profit. However, those companies contribute a large amount of tax revenue to government. If they gain less profits, the government profits decrease a lot. By the way, there will be more and more people unemployed since those factories of producing down jackets have been shut down. The government have to provide unemployment benefit for those workers, which also increases their budget, the whole situation is definitely not beneficial to the economy market. Therefore, if you don’t want your whole economic situation to collapse, stop emitting greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Slow the process of global warming!

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To economist of the society, you should recognize the problem brought by global warming. As the temperature grows higher, the down jacket market gains less and less profit. However, those companies contribute a large amount of tax revenue to government. If they gain less profits, the government profits decrease a lot. By the way, there will be more and more people unemployed since those factories of producing down jackets have been shut down. The government have to provide unemployment benefit for those workers, which also increases their budget, the whole situation is definitely not beneficial to the economy market. Therefore, if you don’t want your whole economic situation to collapse, stop emitting greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Slow the process of global warming!

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2. Electric airplane Crashes.
3. The first group of Mars Colonized nations.
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5. Scientists discovered transgenic humans in Ancient Guangdong with Fires and Paddings on their backs.
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Tone is informative in parts but overall this reads as a feature article and not a news report. There is a lot of descriptive words and adjectives not really supported so it sounds very subjective in tone. How might you make this more objective?
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The virtual game "wangzherongyao" certainly brings advantages for teenagers. For example, in this game, you can learn how to corporate with your teammates and finish a task together. This skill certainly brings benefits to their daily life, they are able to strengthen their communication ability, their leadership, and their group-working skills. It strengthens their bonds with others.
However, the game brings some negative effects to teenagers. For example, they might get addicted to this game, they spend time thinking about this game and watching videos related to this game. This might distract their attention, they focus less on their academic works. This game also brings negative effects to teenagers' eyes. They spend too much time on video games which might cause them to sufefr from eye problems.

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According to the previous facts that have been stated, I believe Stewart's statement is right. The previous statements have already mentioned that sharks rarely kills people, but in contrast, people kills millions of sharks every day. We cannot use those few cases of sharks attacking people to proclaim that sharks are dangerous. In fact, as human beings, we should reflect our behaviors. Our destructions to the species and their habitat are inhumane and irreversible. As high school students, we might be too helpless to stop shark fin trading, but at least we should stop consuming shark fin products. No buying leads to no killing.

Finish his statement:
The United Nation should promote all countries to ban the shark fin industry. They should advocate the negative effects about killing sharks and consuming their shark fins. The United Nation should also call for all citizens among the world to stop consuming shark fin soups.