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In Cold Blood Part 2 - Questions 19-24

19) What concerns the detectives about the mattress box, bed covers, etc.?

The mattress box, bedcovers and the pillow were important objects for the detectives because there were possible clues that the killers left. The big doubt is why were they trying to do? It seems like they were trying to make the victims feel comfortable

20) What can we learn from Dick and Perry’s possessions?

Dick and Perry’s possessions told us that Perry was an intelligent person that took care about his books and manuscripts. He liked to read and write. Both carried TV sets probably to be in touch with the news and to know about the murders. Also a portable radio, maybe for the same reason. They were travelling to never return but in a way they were intrinsically worried about what they had done.

21) Explain Mr. Howard Fox’s letter. What does this tell us about the family?

The letter written by Howland Fox said that he has heard people from Garden City talking that the killer should be killed as well. Although, it is more appropriate to pray for him to find peace and forgiveness from God.

This letter tells us that the Clutters family were a religious people that didn’t like revenge. They believed in God’s Justice. They think that people should pray for this killer because it would be hard to live with his own conscious and find peace.

22) Describe the argument between Dick and Perry. What does this tell us about them?

The argument tells us that Perry is thinking about what they have done, and we wanted to talk about it. Especially because he was a religious person and is trying to understand why did they do it. Different from him is Dick, who wanted to forget and not talk about it. Also he was trying to convince Perry to not worry about it because in the past he had killed a nigger.

23) Why is the story of Perry killing King so important?

The story is important because Dick thought Perry a savage killer because of this story but the truth is that Perry didn’t know if the King is dead. He just hit him with the bicycle chain but as he left the place he didn’t know if the man survived. We can think that he invented the hole story to case an impression on Dick.

24) Describe the memories Perry has about the murder.

He first remembers where he met King and how their relationship was. His victim was a young man who read a lot. Sometimes they shared beers and spent time together. One day Perry invited him for a drive, hit him with a bicycle chain and left him alone.

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In Cold Blood Part III

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In Cold Blood - Part III

(pages 152-182)

1. Why is Floyd Wells concerned when he hears the news of the Clutter murders?

2. How does fate come up again in Floyd’s encounter?

3. Why doesn’t Floyd want to tell his story to the KBI?

4. How does Marie, Dewey’s wife, react when she sees pictures of Dick and Perry?

5. How do the Hickocks feel about their son? In what way do they “cover” for their son? In what ways do they recognize and admit his mistakes?

6. How do the views about Dick differ between the community and his family?

7. Why do you think the agent does not mention the murders in talking with Dick’s parents?

8. What is the Hickocks’ impression of Perry? Why is this ironic?

9. Why do you think the agent does not take the gun with him?

10. Why had Mr. Bell stopped to pick up Dick and Perry? How is he later saved? (Is this another

example of fate?)

11. What news about Perry does the proprietor of the rooming house tell the detectives?

12. Describe the contents of Perry’s box.

13. What information about Perry does Barbara tell the detective?

14. Back to the Nature vs. Nurture argument. What information does the reader learn about the problems in Perry’s family that may relate to nature? Be specific.

15. What story about Japan does Barbara recall about Perry? Do you believe this story? Explain.

16. About what part of his childhood does Perry seem to be most upset?

17. What “crazy-man stunt” does Dick introduce? Why does he think they should do this?

(pages 182-210)

18. According to Dewey, what is their only physical evidence in the crime?

19. How must the detectives trick Dick and Perry?

20. What new rule does Myrt Clare declare? Why?

21. Why does Perry become so upset at the washateria?

22. What does Perry think Dick will do if he is arrested?

23. Describe Dewey’s dream.

24. Explain Perry’s view of the murder in Florida. Why is this ironic?

25. What do we learn about Dick and Perry from the incident with the young girl on the beach?

26. About what is Perry fascinated? Why?

27. Explain the incident with Dick and Perry and the hitchhikers. What do we learn about both men through this episode?

28. When are Perry and Dick arrested? Why do they think they have been arrested?

29. How do the detectives hope to trap the two men?

(pages 210-242)

30. About what things does Dick boast during his interview? What impression does he make on the detectives? What story does he tell about the night the Clutters were murdered?

31. How does Dick react when the detectives broach the Clutter murder?

32. According to the detectives, what two mistakes had Perry and Dick made?

33. Before ending the interrogation, what information do the detectives give Dick to think about?

34. Look on page 217 find the description of Perry. Compare this description to earlier descriptions of Perry.

35. How does Perry behave during his interrogation?

36. Alone in his cell, what does Dick think about for the first time?

37. What news does Dick tell the detectives the next time they meet? What does this tell us about Dick? According to the detectives, what had Dick called Perry?

38. During the car ride to Garden City, why does Perry finally decide to tell all he knows about the murders?

39. According to Perry, what had happened that night? What news do we learn for the first time? Do you trust Perry’s version? Explain.

40. All along, Dewey had been troubled by the mattress box and bed covers. What does Perry tell him about these items?

41. What causes an argument between Dick and Perry during the murders?

42. According to Perry, how had each family member reacted to the intrusion?

43. How do the citizens of Garden City react when the alleged killers are brought to the courthouse?

Questions 13-18

13. What promise do Perry and Dick make to each other?

They promise each other that if they get caught they would be together and would say the same things.

14. Describe Perry’s dream. Analyse this dream.

Perry is in Africa, it is a jungle.  He claims on the trees and something smells terribly bad. The tree has blue leaves and diamonds that are hanging everywhere. Those diamonds are like oranges. He knows that he is there to pick up the diamond, a bustle of them. But when he picks up the “oranges” a snake is going to fall on him. That snake, takes care of the tree and the diamonds (he knew that beforehand).

He is scared because does not know how to fight a snake. He wants the diamonds more than the afraid of a snake. So he picks one but the snake lands on him and he is crusted by the animal.

Suddenly, in the fight, he sees a sort of yellow “parrot” that appeared. It was a nun; from the orphanage where he lives, that is waking up him from his dream.

Perry loves money, loves anything that makes him have money. He does whatever is possible to get it. It does not matter if it is taking the biggest risks, he would do it.  “Money was greatly on his mind”

15. Describe the episodes when Dick cons people. How is he able to do this?

Dick enters a store; it is a clothes store in Kansas City, Missouri. He asks Perry to be quiet and to stand where Dick says. They enter the store and Dick says that Perry is about to get married and that he needs some clothes. Minutes later, they are selecting trousers, jackets but when the clerk presents them the bill. Dick argues that he has forgotten his wallet. The employer presents a blank check but Dick makes it for eighty dollars more and paid the difference in cash.

Probably he has this type of ability because of his father.

16. Explain why Cookie was so important to Perry. What does this tell us about Perry?

Cookie is the nurse he meets when his is hospitalized because of the motorcycle accident. She likes him and takes care of him as if he were a baby. She also inspires him to read serious literature. When it seems to be the beginning of a sort of relationship and love and marriage is mentioned, Perry tells her goodbye and leaves her a poem that supposed to be written by him.

We can see that Perry is a more sentimental person. He tries to come back to the “good” side of life but his nature carries him to move on and pretend to be another person. Even though he seems to be a person that needs love and this makes him happy.  

17. Why does Dick worry about his family? Why is this ironic?

He is worried because the checks will star to bounce and he will be far from his father and mother to help them. Moreover, His parents are old and sick people and have got anything. Dick is really sorry about them. However, Perry tries to calm down Dick saying that once they are in Mexico they can pay back the checks because there they will be making lot of money.

I this it is ironic because when Dick commits those crimes he does not care or think about his parents.

18. What new evidence does Mrs. Elaine Selsor provide?

Mrs. Selsor is Nancy’s aunt. This woman finds a gold wristwatch tucked in the toe of a shoe. Dewey thinks that Nancy’s watch is not there just by accident but because she putted it there minutes before the “thieves” enter the house. This treasured watch is a gift from her father and she had tried to hidden it from those people.

Questions 7-12

7. Discuss the evidence against John Sr. and Jr. How is this evidence resolved?

The problem became some years earlier when John had conducted with Mr. Clutter a minor business transaction, the outcome of which angered John Jr. who felt that Clutter had thrown him "a queer ball". After that, they came to the Clutter's property full of whiskey courage intending to fight with Herb but they were denied the chance for Mr. Clutter, when he seized a gun and marched them off his property. This discourtesy the Jhon had not forgiven and Jhon Sr had told that every time he thought about Mr. Clutter he wanted to choke him. However,  this evidence was resolved because for the time of the assassination they were out of the place.

8. Explain the irony surrounding Mrs. Myrtle Clare.

She does not change her locks on the post office, and 8 months she's robbed at the post office.

9. Explain the quotation on page 88: “Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.”

In my opinion, this quotation makes reference about the feeling that was in a town after the murders. People in the city felt like there were not a safe place or someone to really trust, the killer could be any of them, known people. Moreover, they think that it was not safe to let their houses or continue with their quit lives.

10. Discuss the tension between Dick and Perry after the murders.

The tension between Dick and Perry came as Perry started to have a bad feel, saying that he can predict when something bad is going to happen. Perry also felt guilty or that someone could discover what they did, but Dick refused to accept any possibility of this.

11. Explain Perry’s belief that he has ESP (extra sensorial perception). What evidence does he offer to support his assertion?

He thinks that he can in a way predict some events because he had already predicted the death of his brother, the death of his sister and his accident in a motorbike. He described it as a strong pain in his legs, he just felt when something wrong is going to happen, but he once explained that you can avoid these things, just wait for them to happen.

12. Explain the episode about Floyd on page 87. (This will be resolved later.)

Floyd was a prisoner, who heard on the radio about the crime staying his jail. He knew who were the killers, because he was the one who talked about the Finch’s family with his roommate.

Questions 43 - 47

43. Describe the Finney County murders prior to the Clutter murder.

• The Hefner Slaying: August, 1920. A fellow called WalterTunif was working on the Finnup ranch. He had a car, turned out to be stolen. He was a soldier AWOL from Fort Bliss, over there in Texas. He was a rascal. So one evening the sheriff rode out to the Finnup ranch to ask Tunif a few questions. Walter Tunif shot the sheriff right through the heart. The devil who done it, he lit out of there on one of the Finnup horses, rode east along the river. The next morning, they caught up with him; old Walter Tunif. He didn’t get the chance to explain how he did that because the boys were irate.
• John Carlyle Polk, a Creek Indian, 32 years of age, resident Muskogee, Okla., killed Mary Kay Finley, white female, 40 years of age, a waitress residing in Garden City. Polk stabbed her with the jagged neck of a beer bottle in a room in the Copeland Hotel, Garden City, Kansas.
• A pair of railroad workers robbed and killed an elderly farmer. (11-1-52)
• A drunken husband beat and kicked his wife to death. (6-17-56)
• A man named Mooney was walking around the park. He was from North Carolina, he went to the rest room, and a boy followed him inside, Wilmer Lee Stebbins, 20 years old. Afterward, Wilmer Lee always claimed Mr. Mooney made him an unnatural suggestion. And that was why he robbed Mr. Mooney, and knocked him down, and banged his head on the cement floor, then, he stuck Mr. Mooney’s head in a toilet bowl and kept on flushing till he drowned him. First off, he buried the body a couple of miles northeast of Garden City. Next day he dug it up and put it down fourteen miles the other direction. Finally, he dug one grave.

44. Why does Dewey return to the Clutter home each day?

Dewey returned to the Clutter home each day because he was obsessing about the case. He was convinced that the family knew the killer very well, and also that the motive was revenge and hatred for Herb Clutter. In addition, Dewey found those visits pleasurable.

45. Describe Marie's dream.

Marie’s dream: she had a “silly dream” that seemed to be so real for her. She dreamed that Bonnie Clutter walked through the door. Bonnie was wearing a blue angora sweater, and she looked so sweet and pretty. Then, Marie talked to her but she could not understand what Bonnie was saying. At the end, Bonnie looked at her and said that there were not nothing worse than to be murdered.

46. What example of fate is found at the end of "Persons Unknown"?

Dick and Perry continued their journey. They were waiting for someone to pick them up on the road. They also intended to murder a driver and then steal the car but they could not because the car did not stop at all. In conclusion, this might be the fate of for the killers.

47. What example of irony is found at the end of "Persons Unknown"?

a. An example of irony could be that Perry murdered the Clutters because of his deep anger towards his own family.

b. Other example could be that Perry liked Mr. Clutter, as well as the other members of the family. This at first seems ironic, but in fact it says a great deal about Perry’s motive for killing the Clutters. The murders were not inspired by a literal hatred of this specific family, but by misdirected frustration and resentment that finds a symbolic object in the Clutters and the values that they represent. The family is unlucky enough to be on the receiving end of this fury, but they are by no means its source.

In Cold Blood: Questions 25-31

Persons Unknown (pages 96-123)

25. One of the main arguments which In Cold Blood interjects is the question over which is more important: nature or nurture. What information do we learn about Perry’s past? How do you think these events have changed him?

We learn about Perry’s past that he had a difficult childhood. His parents got divorced when he was very young, and his mother took him with her. Then he spent some years in an orphanage run by nuns, where he was whipped by the nuns. I think these events made him feel insecure and afraid of building bonds with others.

26. Describe and explain Dick’s episode with the dog in the road. What do we learn about Dick from this episode?

Dick was driving, and when he saw a dog trotting along the side of the road he hit him with the car. It was something he did always he had the chance. From this episode we can see his lack of compassion for living creatures, because he felt satisfied for killing animals.

27. What evidence exists that the killers may have been after Taylor Jones?

The evidence that the killers may have been after Taylor Jones was that he was richer than Herb Clutter and lived near the Clutter farm. The killers, if they weren’t from Holcomb, could have taken the wrong road and ended up at the Clutter’s house instead of Jones’s.

28. Look at the story about Mrs. Archibald William Warren-Brown on pages 110. What is the purpose of this story?

I think the purpose of this story is to show that Holcomb was a very quiet and safe town, that’s the reason why Mrs. Archibald moved there. After the murderers, the place seemed to bother her and she found her house too noisy. The noises in the night, of the wind and animals outside, made her feel nervous and think silly things. She remembered what happened to the Clutters.

29. Name the people who plan to leave Holcomb and explain why each will leave.

The first who decided to leave was a tenant farmer who worked for Lester McCoy. He said his wife couldn’t sleep, because she was too worried after what happened with the Clutters.

The second who decided to leave was Mrs. Hideo Ashida. She said her husband decided it was better for them to leave and go to Nebraska. Mrs. Hideo Ashida thought that after what happened with Herb and his family, anything was the same.

30. What does Hideo remember about the last time she saw Herb Clutter. Explain the irony.

The last time she saw Herb Clutter, she told him she could never imagine him ever being afraid, and that he could talk his way out of any situation. After that, Hideo thought he wasn’t afraid the night he died. The irony was that Hideo thought that nothing bad could ever happen to him because he could solve everything, but finally it happened.

31. Describe Dick and Perry’s visit to Mexico.

After a week in Mexico, Dick and Perry met Otto, a rich middle-aged German. He had a native Acapulcan friend who called himself the Cowboy. Every day Otto hired a boat and the four friends went fishing. After Otto went back to Germany, Perry and Dick had to sell their car because it was the only thing they had left. Three days after Dick sold the car, the money they had had vanished. Dick tried to find a job, but he discovered that the wages in Mexico were very low, and he thought it was better to go back to the United States.

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In Cold Blood

PART II – PERSON UNKOWN (pages 73-96)

1. Describe Alfred’s feelings. Do you think he was involved in any way? Explain. How can he convince people of his innocence?

Alfred was nervous and concern about what people thought about him and his family. People couldn`t believe how he couldn`t hear the shots. But, he convinced them when the police explained that the wind and a big barn which was in between the Clutters and Aflred`s house covered the noise of the massacre.

In my opinion, Alfred was innocent. He didn`t have motives for killing them. Mr. Clutter gave him home, work and was comprehensible to Alfred`s problems. Why could Alfred be angry with Mr. Clutter? It doesn`t make sense to think that.

2. Describe Alvin Dewey.

Alvin Dewey was 47 years old and got married 17 years ago with Marie (they met in New Orleans when they worked for the F.B.I.). He was the man in charge of the Clutter`s investigation. Dewey was determined to solve the case because he respect the Clutters. Herb and him went to the same church. After investigating a while, Dewey discarded the connection between the insurance and the murders. He thought in two possible hypothesis, one involving a single murderer and other with 2 perpetrators.  

3. Why do you think Nancy was not gagged?

I think Nancy was the first victim of the massacre. She must be slept when Dick and Perry killed her. But first, they tied Herb, Kenyon and Bonnie up. In that way, when they heard the shot they couldn`t do anything.

4. Discuss the evidence the KBI has accumulated so far.

The evidence they collect were:

• ·         Footprints with a particular pattern soles (diamond). The only sustainable clue they have.
• ·         They discarded a robbery because jewellery wasn't been stolen.
• ·         The murderer/s could be from outside the town. There isn`t possible that 2 people from the same place could think about committing such a crime.
• ·         The adhesive tape and the cord the police collected from the crime scene.

5. Explain Dewey’s major reason for believing that the murder was the work of only one individual. Do you agree?

Dewey thought in the hypothesis where there was just one murderer. The perpetrator woke Herb up and made him tie all his family. But, without reason took Kenyon to the playroom and Herb to the furnace room. The fact that the Clutters were tied with the same knot made Dewey think that one person was the responsible for the crime.

No, I don`t support this idea. First, there could been 2 or more murderers. But, they could arrange that just one of them was in charge to tie the victims. Second, as Dewey thought, when Kenyon was taken to the playroom with Herb, they could been fought with the murderer. Finally, If Herb tied his family, where did he learn to make that kind of knot? The police should have looked for the same knot in the farm. I don`t remember well now, but I think Perry learnt to make that knot in the army/navy (I don`t remember).

6. What evidence exists that the murder may have been the result of a feud?

Despite of the Clutters were beloved by all Holcomb, Herb had had a problems with two men.

John Senior and John Junior: Senior had made a business transaction with Herb which ended bad for John. He and his son became alcoholics after that. One day, they went drunk to speak with Herb, but he threw them out with a gun. One month earlier, John Senior told he would like to kill Herb.

Mr. Smith: His haunting dog was killed by an employee of Mr. Clutter. When the agent Church went to investigate Smith saw a similar knot in the barn of Mr. Smith. The same knot which was used to tie the Clutters.

If someone wants to add something that I missed, please do it.