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Perry doesn't want to be hanged so he starves himself so that he can be taken to the hospital, which is also a pretty good idea. This makes the workers at the hospital force feed him and makes him postpone the hanging a little longer. While at the hospital, he starts to get really weird dreams. Perry then gets a letter from his dad but doesn't seem to care about it and just rips it up on the spot. When he became stable, he was moved back to the prison, where he stayed for another two years. People were somehow able to postpone his hanging. They get a new prisoners, one eighteen and the other nineteen. They killed seventeen people. Dick sends letters to the Kentucky Bar association so that he and Perry would get a retrial that was more fair. And they get one. The verdict was that they were able postpone the hanging a lot longer. Andrews gets sent to the gallows because he was still considered guilty. Another three years go by and Dick and Perry finally get hung.

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The last day for the trial and the defendants stand no chance. They have nothing up their sleeves and nothing to help defend Dick and Perry other than their rights and the use of some bible verses. Dick and Perry are then found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. That was probably the decision from the start, but whatever, an eye for an eye. Mrs.Meior spends one more night with Perry, but she soon has to go eat out with her husband. While Perry starts crying, he hands Mrs.Meior a picture of himself at a younger age that he drew so that she could remember the good him. Makes me feel really bad for Perry because he had an awful childhood and such. Dick and Perry are then transferred to the hanging building that looks like a giant cross. How ironic. The hanging coffin already has five other inmates, one guy named Cowell Andrews, who apparently killed his entire family using guns to probably sell their land. Death penalty for him.

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So Dick's in jail and he's planning on making a shiv out of a tooth brush and I guess that's kind of smart, but if he gets caught he's screwed. The next day, the sheriff has a shake out and finds Dick's shiv. Extremely bad luck. Perry thinks about committing suicide by using the light bulb at the top of his cell. He then has some weird dream of a giant yellow bird saving him. Dick and Perry are then interviewed for a diagnosis and their lawyers attempt to post pone the trial. The Clutter home is also on sale the day before the hearing. The auction attracts a lot of people, like 5,000 and everything gets sold. In the psychiatry diagnosis, Dick and Perry had to write a biography of sorts. The trial begins and things start to go down hill for Dick an Perry.
 The trial goes on and the defense has practically nothing to defend Dick and Perry. Al testifies and it seems to be the most impacting testimony. Same with Mrs.Hitchcock's statement. Perry then Dines with Don Cullivan in the Jail place and they get to talk. The next day, the trial continues and the Doctor is not allowed to elaborate on his diagnosis. If he did, Perry might have been saved a little, or at least received sympathy. I feel that the judge is bias and helps the persecution side a lot more than the defense side. He probably wants to get this over as soon as possible. Or maybe he hates Dick and Perry. Dr.Satten also researches Perry because he's doing a book for Murders without motives.

Page 226 - 262

Dick and Perry seem to be restless after the interrogation and I guess they're scared since they're probably going to get hanged. During their second interview though, they're more fortified and don' budge toward the idea that they murdered the Clutters. Dick then back stabs Perry and focuses all the blame to Perry, saying he made me do it and all those excuses. What a selfish person, only thinking for himself. Perry finds out that Dick spilled the beans so Perry tells the truth too. Probably not to have as much of a guilty conscience when he dies. There then seems to be a lot of people waiting for the arrival of Dick and Perry. Reporters, neighbors, and classmates of Nancy and Kenyon Clutter all seem to be there. When Dick and Perry arrive, nothing that interesting seems to happen and the Meirs take care of them in their cells. Mrs.Meir seems to be a really nice person because she cooks them food that they like. Perry also seems to be showing a good side because he's holding up for Dick, even though it might be because he want's Dick's parents to think Dick didn't have anything in the murders. Perry also recalls his life story and receives a letter from an old army friend. Guess he's going to meet him sometime soon.

Page 203 - 226

Bobby Rupp is still in Grief after the death of Nancy Clutter. Must be pretty hard on him. He goes on a jog and recalls memories of Nancy and her dad's story. Dick and Perry pick up some hitchhikers on the road, probably to rob them? Nope, they become a little friendly with each other and start picking bottles off the road to recycle for money, which seems like a genius idea when you're broke. Dewey then gets a call that Dick and Perry were found so he's probably really excited. Dick and Perry were found at OOM. I think it's room but the r fell off? Anyways, they get interrogated and Dick plays it really smooth, but gets caught telling lies. Perry, however does a horrible job. He gets caught and acts like a guilty person. No smooth acting for him.

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Dick and Perry don't end up killing Mr.Bell but stay in a salvation army place and then travel a bit. It starts raining and they find a barn to take shelter in. Inside the barn, they find a car with a key in the ignition. Talk about lucky...Dewey Then attempts to find where Dick and Perry are. Dick and Perry end up at Kansas City again, I think at an airport. They cleaned up in the bathroom and washed their clothes. Dick ends up robbing some friends and getting seventy five dollars. Dewey is then having some weird dream of the Clutter shoot out and Dick and Perry are there. When he wakes up, he is notified that Dick and Perry are in Kansas City. I don't even know why they're there. If I were one of them, I'd be staying faaaar away from Kansas City. Anyways, time for some action. Dick and Perry then end up in Miami and read in the paper about some killing with a shot gun. It wasn't them so maybe it was the one at the Clutter House with the shotgun. Then there's a scene of Dick acting like a pedophile.

Page 172 - 187

Mr.Bell goes to pick up Dick and Perry since they were hitchhiking. Dick and Perry planned to kill him and burry him and rob him a few minutes later, but I guess the plan didn't go smoothly since it didn't happen. Mr.Bell gets a miracle because right before Dick and Perry strangle him, another hitchhiker appears and Mr.Bell picks him up. Story switches to Nye and he's in Vegas to talk to a land lady. She was Perry's Land Lady and she gives him a lot of his possessions that he left behind. She seems to be afraid of Perry by the way she acts when she talks about him. Mrs.Johnson opens a picture album and recalls a lot of memories of her family. Apparently, when Perry was in Korea, he threw some random guy off a bridge. Kind of a random add in, but I guess it adds to his personality.

Page 159 - 172

Starts off with a man named Floyd Wells recalling an encounter with Dick in jail. Dick keeps talking to Floyd about wanting to break into the Clutter house because they were so rich and he was telling this to Dick because Floyd used to work there. After the recall, Floyd connects the Clutter case with Dick I guess he's probably going to try and tell the police. So he actually does tell the police and Al Dewey gets some mug shots of Dick and Perry. Guess it's time for him to hunt them down. Nye, the other FBI agent guy, goes to talk to Dick's parents and they tell him he was a good guy, but when he left for somewhere and came back he turned bad. All of the victims from Dick's acts dislike him a lot but don't tell his parents because they respect the parents. Nye then get's a clue from the parents that Dick and Perry left for a trip the day the Clutters died. More suspicion for Dick and Perry.

Page 143 - 159

During Perry's jail time, he meets a guy named Willie Jay and Willie helps analyze Perry's sister's letter to him. It was called the Impressions I Garnered from the Letter and it gave insight to things I didn't even think about. It was all like psychiatrist stuff. Al Dewey then seems to be addicted to the Clutter case and won't let it go and that seems to change him, making him a little more impatient. The guy with the shotgun at the Clutter house seemed to be safe because no evidence was found against him. Then there was some weird bathroom murder that gets mentioned and then Al Dewey's wife has a strange dream of Mrs.Clutter, still alive.

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It starts off with Perry and his mementos of his parents being rodeo workers. His mom then left him and his dad, but then came back later to get Perry. Perry then remembers being abandoned and taken to orphanages and children's shelters. His experiences there were awful! The workers would get mad and beat him because he wet the bed a lot. Perry also remembers his time in the army and the motorcycle accident that left his lower body so small. He also remembers the family that took care of him for some time, Joe and his wife and kids. Perry keeps remembering his past and remembers his time in jail. He would write to his dad and sister and his sister wrote back once, but it was kind of like a lecture and Perry hated it. It seemed like Perry wanted to kill his sister...very strange.

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Mr.Helm is in bad health and he got along fine with the Clutters, but when he says his story about the Mexicans, the police didn't believe him. The investigators then find someone in the house, a Mexican with a gun and a shotgun and knife in his car. He's probably going to get falsely accused, but the police might find him to be innocent since there's no evidence against him. When the story goes back to Dick and Perry, they were getting packed so that they could leave. The wages in Mexico did not attract Dick so they wanted to leave. They were packing a shoe with diamond soles and a cat paw print one- the ones used in the murder.  I don't understand why they didn't just throw that away since it's evidence against them. Perry then finds his mementos and reads them.

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So Perry has a pretty...interesting family. His mom died from choking on vomit, maybe she drank too much? His sister married and has a normal life, however his other sister committed suicide and so did his brother and his brother's wife. Perry also tells another lie to Dick about killing an African with a bike chain, just to get his respect. Dick then proceeded to run over a dog. Animal cruelty! The nest story is over someone named Mrs.Warren-Browne, but it was all boring stuff. When the story switches back to Dick and Perry, they meet new people and get to relax with them. They went sailing and fishing. At the end of the chapter, Perry is said to have caught a big fish. This could symbolize them getting caught. Dick and Perry committed a quadruple murder so that's a big crime = big fish, and the fisherman could be Alvin Dewey and his group.

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The investigator, Alvin Dewey, wasn't able to sleep due to the amount of people that keep calling him since he's in charge of the Clutter case. Probably happens a lot when reporters want more information. It seems like there were two things wrong at the Clutter house; In Kenyon's room, the radio was missing, and there was a gold watch in Nancy's shoes. I have no idea how that adds up but ok. If Dick and Perry sell the radio, maybe the police can track it? Also during the murder, the Clutters were found in...reasonably comfortable positions. Kenyon was on a sofa, Nancy was tucked in, Mrs. Clutter was tucked in too and Mr.Clutter had the mattress box. I Guess Dick and Perry were being hospitable to them. Dick and Perry also seem to have moved to Mexico, since they took their favorite belongings with them to there, however, Perry keeps bothering Dick about the murders and Dick gets pissed. Maybe Dick will kill Perry too?

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Dick and Perry are like 400 miles away from the murder place, so they're pretty safe for the moment. However, I think a better idea would be to leave the country and come back with fake passports and identities. I still don't understand the motive since they didn't take anything other than a portable radio. Dick and Perry start to worry that they messed up since the left a connection to them, however I don't know what. Perry then goes to sleep and have some peculiar dreams and I don't really understand them. Perry has a dream and in it there's a giant bird and a snake guarding a tree. The giant bird saves him from reality but the snake eats him. In the dream, "Thus, the snake, the custodian of the diamond-bearing tree, never finished devouring him but was itself always devoured." I guess the giant bird symbolizes a savior for Perry while the Snake is like evil. The snake attempted to devour Perry in evil but couldn't finish him and the snake was all evil. Then it goes to Bobby and Nancy's friend, Susan, mourning over the Clutter deaths. When the story goes back to Dick and Perry, it talks of how they conned people like professionals. Perry would get a suit, a wristwatch, a camera, and a ring by pretending to be getting married while Dick talked and handed out fake checks. It seems like a pretty genius idea. At the end, Dick tells Perry that they will get rich in Mexico, I'm not sure how but ultimately, Dick is just using Perry.

My imagination as to what the yellow bird Perry's dreaming about. It's a phoenix but I think this clicked for me because it's big and it's kind of like a holy symbol.





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There's talk about the Clutter incident all over the town. Bobby seemed really struck over what happened to his girlfriend, Nancy Clutter. It's probably really hard for him seeming as this happened to someone he loved. The story is switched to Perry and he's in Olathe cleaning the boots that he wore and resting. As the story changes back to the Clutters, a man named Alfred is being interviewed since he was a neighbor. He says that he couldn't hear the shot gun blasts because of the western wind and he was in the east part; he also mentions that there was a barn in between them, but I still think he should have heard shots since shotguns are pretty loud. Alvin Dewey comes in to take the case of the Clutters. He's an ex-FBI agent so he's most likely really smart and he brought some help with him.\With his group, he might be able to find a clue. The community then becomes very paranoid on whether the murderer was a person in the city so they start acting distrustful toward one another. I can understand that because if something like a quadruple murder happens, people usually get very afraid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKawpAMYO5U I feel like this music fits in for Bobby's feelings right now. It's kind of like sad music because he just lost a loved one and it must feel like his world is crushed.

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At the Clutter scene, Nancy had her hands tied behind her back and had her ankles tied together. She was then shot in the back of the head with the shotgun. Two inches away. Mrs.Clutter was tied with her hands in front of her and her mouth taped shut. She was then shot in the side of the head. Kenyon was in the basement and his hands were tied to a pipe. his mouth was also taped but he was shot in the face. Ouch...
Mr.Clutter was in the heater room and was also tied, had his mouth taped, and shot in the face but before getting shot, he had his throat cut. This was a good scene but the deaths were pretty violent. I wonder how Dick and Perry will be caught since it is said they didn't leave any clues. Many of the people in this section say some very interesting things though. It seems to be about themes of reality like, "All the neighbors are rattle varmints looking for a chance to slam the door in your face. It's the same the whole world around." This probably means that everyone in the whole world have a bad side to them, it just takes a while before you will see it.

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Dick and Perry eat a big dinner consisting of steaks and a lot of side dishes. I'm assuming this is the night the Clutters die since Dick and Perry also buy gloves as well as having the big meal. Perry then gets more information shed on him. He apparently killed a colored man in Las Vegas for no reason, so Perry has a really violent personality. When it goes to Dick's thoughts, he's apparently just using Perry for profit during the Clutter murders. The follow up story is about Nancy Clutter and it's not that important. Just stuff on what she did the day she died. The upcoming story has Dick and Perry arriving at the Clutter place. Time for a good murder scene! Murder is skipped and it goes to the next day as to how the Clutters were found. Apparently they didn't go to church and so two girls got worried over them and came by to see if they were ok. They find Nancy in her room with blood on the wall.

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Dick and Perry are attempting to get black stockings from nuns. No idea what the stockings are going to be used for, but whatever. Perry has superstitions of nuns, so he makes Dick go get them, or at least try to get them. Perry starts talking of some guy named Willie J which was like a friend of Perrys during his time in jail. The following story of the Clutters and the story after that about Dick and Perry are all side stuff, so nothing important. The Clutter story after the side story one was kind of interesting. Bobby Rupp is taking a lie detector test for the murders of the Clutter family since he was at the house that night. Bobby says that when he left their house, he felt that something or someone was in the trees.

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The section began with the history of Garden City, so it was all pretty boring. Mrs.Hideo is introduced and I guess she's just a minor character that was a friend of the Clutters. When It switches to Dick and Perry, I get more interested since they have more action. Dick and Perry go to some mart to buy rope to tie up the family. They also talk about the family members so I wonder how the infiltration will work. The story then switched back to the Mr.Clutter's son, Kenyon. He's pretty strong since he was able to carry two sheep through a blizzard. That's pretty cool. The murder is skipped and the story goes to some guy named Mr.Helm getting interviewed for the killing of the Clutter Family. I didn't really understand why the murder was skipped but ok.

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The section begins with a story of Dick and Perry. Dick has a job at a car repair shop and he talks to Perry about how he brought a gun, his shot gun. It seems like they are going to be the killers, but I don't know their motive yet. The story then switches to Mrs. Clutter and her daughter's friend. Nancy had to leave so Mrs.Clutter is with her friend. Mrs.Clutter seems to have some weird condition so she acts very strange. She Might have Schizophrenia since she doesn't seem to act normally. The story is then switched again to Dick and Perry. I found this part kind of interesting since it talks about all their tattoos and what they're from.

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The beginning of this section introduces two more people, Dick and Perry. I'm assuming that these are the murderers. Dick is portrayed as a really carefree guy by the way he acts and seems to not have a very big vocabulary because of the way he talks. Perry is described as a very powerfully built man except for the fact that his lower half is smaller, making him unproportional. Kind of reminds me of Popeye the Sailor Man when he eats spinach since his biceps and the top of his body get stronger. Perry is also described as half Native American and half Irish. The next paragraph went to the P.O.V of Nancy Clutter, daughter of Mr.Clutter. Her day is described and it seems like an average day, so nothing that interesting.








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In Cold Blood; Beginning - page 14

Chapter one, nothing really exciting happened in it. It's mostly all just descriptions of setting and describing the area of Holcomb, Kansas. Holcomb gives off a deserted feel and it has a small population with run down buildings. At the end of the paragraph, however, there's foreshadowing of shotgun blasts that kill four people. Mr. Clutter, one of the victims, is then described as a man with broad shoulders and dark hair; basically a full grown man. His family members were the remaining victims; children and wife. The Clutter house is then described, as well as his pay, job, and the failures he's gotten trough. The ending of the paragraph hints that that day was his last. The author brought up the shooting pretty quickly, so I guess the killing will come pretty soon in the book. Exciting!