IN COLD BLOOD

Key Characters

• Dick Hickock
• Perry Smith
• The Clutters

SETTING

• Holcomb, Kansas

CONFLICTS

• internal- Dick achieving his ambitions without the expected results
• external- the police hunting them

Quote 1:"“beachcomber yearnings and seaport longings, none of which appealed to Dick, who wanted “a regular life,” with a business of his own, a house, a horse to ride, a new car, and 'plenty of blonde chicken" (Capote 68)

Quote 2: "“I’m so cold I wouldn’t give a damn if this caught fire and burned me alive.” He [Perry] was hungry, too. Starved. Last night they had dined on bowls of Salvation Army soup, and today the only nourishment they’d had was some chocolate bars and chewing gum that Dick had stolen from a drugstore candy counter” (Capote 210).

LETS REFLECT

• Are achieving ones goals truly satisfactory?
• Does having faith offer true protection?
• Is it always what it seems?
• Why do bad things happen to good people?
• Is there a divide between murder for your country and murder for yourself?

SYMBOL

• Money

THEME

• Achieving ones ambition

RECCOMENDATION

• not a thriller/ mystery
• psychologically inclined people

THANK YOU

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