https://padlet.com/jadav5/43t2armf7qifwv8j Nonfiction characterization. Be sure to include textual support and page numbers. en-us 2022-02-01 14:21:36 UTC 2022-02-03 02:46:53 UTC hello@padlet.com jadav5 https://padlet.com/jadav5/43t2armf7qifwv8j/wish/2023411169 Q: The author reveals what about Finney County?

A: Finney County is a rural area with much of its income coming from crops and other forms of agriculture. "The farm ranchers in Finney County, of which Holcomb is a part, have done well; money has been made not from farming alone but also from the exploitation of plentiful natural-gas resources, and its acquisition is reflected in the new school, the comfortable interiors of the farmhouses, the steep and swollen grain elevators." pg. 14]]> 2022-02-01 14:21:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jadav5/43t2armf7qifwv8j/wish/2023411169 jadav5 https://padlet.com/jadav5/43t2armf7qifwv8j/wish/2023411172 Q: The author reveals what about Mr. Clutter?

A: Mr. Clutter is an abstemious man, he does not consume alcohol or drugs, he is strict, traditional, respected, and goes to church. "The truth was he opposed all stimulants, however gentle. He did not smoke, and of course he did not drink; indeed, he had never tasted spirits, and was inclined to avoid people who had—a circumstance that did not shrink his social circle as much as might be supposed, for the center of that circle was supplied by the members of Garden City’s First Methodist Church, a congregation totaling seventeen hundred, most of whom were as abstemious as Mr. Clutter could desire." pg. 18]]> 2022-02-01 14:21:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jadav5/43t2armf7qifwv8j/wish/2023411172 jadav5 https://padlet.com/jadav5/43t2armf7qifwv8j/wish/2023411175 Q: The author reveals what about Kenyon Clutter?

A: Kenyon Clutter is the youngest of the Clutters (fifteen years old), he is taller than Mr. Clutter and is a loner. He has only one friend. He is a very intelligent boy who spends his free time creating gadgets. "Which left, still living at home, the boy, Kenyon, who at fifteen was taller than Mr. Clutter, and one sister, a year older—the town darling, Nancy." pg. 16 "Kenyon had built the chest himself: a mahogany hope chest, lined with cedar, which he intended to give Beverly as a wedding present." pg. 44]]> 2022-02-01 14:21:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jadav5/43t2armf7qifwv8j/wish/2023411175 jadav5 https://padlet.com/jadav5/43t2armf7qifwv8j/wish/2023411176 Q: The author reveals what about Mrs. Clutter?

A: Mrs. Clutter has severe depression due to the birth of Kenyon. It is believed to be caused by a pinched nerve. She is always cold and enjoys little knickknacks. "But with Nancy and then with Kenyon, the pattern of postnatal depression repeated itself, and following the birth of her son, the mood of misery that descended never altogether lifted; it lingered like a cloud that might rain or might not." pg. 34 "Trust in God sustained her, and from time to time secular sources supplemented her faith in His forthcoming mercy; she read of a miracle medicine, heard of a new therapy, or, as most recently, decided to believe that a “pinched nerve” was to blame." pg. 34/35 "She always wore a pair of these socks to bed, for she was always cold." pg. 36 "Presently, more calmly, Mrs. Clutter asked, “Do you like miniature things? Tiny things?” and invited Jolene into the dining room to inspect the shelves of a whatnot on which were arranged assorted Lilliputian gewgaws—scissors, thimbles, crystal flower baskets, toy figurines, forks and knives." pg. 33]]> 2022-02-01 14:21:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jadav5/43t2armf7qifwv8j/wish/2023411176 jadav5 https://padlet.com/jadav5/43t2armf7qifwv8j/wish/2023411177 Q: The author reveals what about Nancy Clutter? (include her friends)

A: Nancy is seen as the town darling and is pretty and popular. Mr. Clutter calls her his southern belle. She is a musician, class president, and leader of the 4-H club. Nancy's friends are much like her. "Nancy, popular and pretty as she was, had never gone out with anyone else, and while Mr. Clutter understood that it was the present national adolescent custom to form couples, to “go steady” and wear “engagement rings,” he disapproved, particularly since he had not long ago, by accident, surprised his daughter and the Rupp boy kissing." pg. 17 "Where she found the time, and still managed to “practically run that big house” and be a straight-A student, the president of her class, a leader in the 4-H program and the Young Methodists League, a skilled rider, an excellent musician (piano, clarinet), an annual winner at the county fair (pastry, preserves, needlework, flower arrangement)—how a girl not yet seventeen could haul such a wagonload, and do so without “brag,” with, rather, merely a radiant jauntiness, was an enigma the community pondered, and solved
by saying, “She’s got character. Gets it from her old man.” pg. 25 "Susan, however, was privileged. When she had first appeared in Holcomb, a melancholy, imaginative child, willowy and wan and sensitive, then eight, a year
younger than Nancy, the Clutters had so ardently adopted her that the fatherless little girl from California soon came to seem a member of the family. For seven years the two friends had been inseparable, each, by virtue of the rarity of similar and equal sensibilities, irreplaceable to the other." pg. 29]]> 2022-02-01 14:21:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jadav5/43t2armf7qifwv8j/wish/2023411177 jadav5 https://padlet.com/jadav5/43t2armf7qifwv8j/wish/2023411178 Q: The author reveals what about Dick and Perry? (How did they meet? What do we know about their family lives? When did they reconnect? Why did Dick think Perry was a good man for the "score"?)

A: Dick is a man stuck on money and women. He thinks of himself highly. Perry is a mysterious man. They met in the Kansas State Penitentiary. Dick has 3 children, 2 parents, and a younger brother. Perry was severely abused by nuns as a child after being neglected by his family. They reconnected in Olathe. Dick thought Perry was a good man because he supposedly murdered someone with a bicycle chain. "Twice married, twice divorced, now twenty-
eight and the father of three boys, Dick had received his parole on the condition that he reside with his parents; the family, which included a younger brother, lived on a small farm near Olathe." pg. 31 "he had killed a colored man in
Las Vegas—beaten him to death with a bicycle chain. The anecdote elevated Dick’s opinion of Little Perry; he began to see more of him, and, like Willie-Jay, though for dissimilar reasons, gradually decided that Perry possessed unusual and valuable qualities." pg. 59]]> 2022-02-01 14:21:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jadav5/43t2armf7qifwv8j/wish/2023411178