In Cold Blood Essay
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Alejandro Macias
July 25, 2011
AP English
In Cold Blood Essay
Everyone knows Richard Hickock and Perry Smith brutally murdered the Clutter family from the start, but the real question is “What events led them to slay these beloved Clutters?” Was it their childhoods, jealousy, or just an act of temporary insanity? These are all great answers, but only one is correct.
The correct answer for Smith’s evil doings was his dreadful childhood. Everything started from the beginning when Perry’s parents were in the rodeo business and they had to survive off of berries and condensed milk while on the road. The six of them traveled in a pick-up truck. Finally when they retired from rodeo they stopped and settled near Reno, Nevada. “Nevada Ranch where the family when a final battle between the parents, a terrifying contest in which horsewhips and scalding water and kerosene lamps were used as weapons, had brought the marriage to a stop.”(Page 184) It’s really heartbreaking that right when the family tries to pick themselves up and start new lives “Tex and Flo” have to expose the radiation of violence to their children and mutating their little childish brains to be able to withstand the fact that their parents are always savagely beating each other like this when insanely bothered.
When the family lived in Fort Bragg, California, sometimes the father of the four would unleash his anger at his children as punishments for their sins. “After I finished crying my anger mounted gain, and during the evening when the B.B. gun was behind the chair my brother was sitting in, I grabbed it & held it to my brother’s ear and hollered BANG! My father (or mother) beat me and made me apologize. My brother used to shoot at a big white horse ridden by a neighbor who went to our place on his way to town. The neighbor caught my brother and I hiding in the bushes and took us to dad & we got a beating & brother got his B.B. gun taken away & I was glad he had his gun taken away!”(Page...
July 25, 2011
AP English
In Cold Blood Essay
Everyone knows Richard Hickock and Perry Smith brutally murdered the Clutter family from the start, but the real question is “What events led them to slay these beloved Clutters?” Was it their childhoods, jealousy, or just an act of temporary insanity? These are all great answers, but only one is correct.
The correct answer for Smith’s evil doings was his dreadful childhood. Everything started from the beginning when Perry’s parents were in the rodeo business and they had to survive off of berries and condensed milk while on the road. The six of them traveled in a pick-up truck. Finally when they retired from rodeo they stopped and settled near Reno, Nevada. “Nevada Ranch where the family when a final battle between the parents, a terrifying contest in which horsewhips and scalding water and kerosene lamps were used as weapons, had brought the marriage to a stop.”(Page 184) It’s really heartbreaking that right when the family tries to pick themselves up and start new lives “Tex and Flo” have to expose the radiation of violence to their children and mutating their little childish brains to be able to withstand the fact that their parents are always savagely beating each other like this when insanely bothered.
When the family lived in Fort Bragg, California, sometimes the father of the four would unleash his anger at his children as punishments for their sins. “After I finished crying my anger mounted gain, and during the evening when the B.B. gun was behind the chair my brother was sitting in, I grabbed it & held it to my brother’s ear and hollered BANG! My father (or mother) beat me and made me apologize. My brother used to shoot at a big white horse ridden by a neighbor who went to our place on his way to town. The neighbor caught my brother and I hiding in the bushes and took us to dad & we got a beating & brother got his B.B. gun taken away & I was glad he had his gun taken away!”(Page...