Dick and Perry's Tattoos

Dick and Perry both have been in prision. A lot of prisioners including Dick and Perry have tatoos that they acquire in jail that tell where they served time and what they served time for. There tattoos are very different, but these tattoos tell more that just when they did time and for what they did time for. These tattoos tell the reader the differences and can be related to other differences told about Perry and Dick. For example, On page 31 of In Cold Blood the reader is told that both Perry and Dick were involved in car accidents 2 years apart from eachother. It is also said that Dick's substained injuries to his face and there were many of them. His face became tilted, his nose became askew, his eyes became uneven, and his lips were slightly crooked. Perry's injuries to to the car accident was a broken leg in 5 places which left him in the hospital for six months and on crutches for six months. Obviously Dick had more injuries but they were less severe. This is similiar to the tattoos that they both had. The book states, "While he (Perry) had fewer tattoos than his companion, they were more elaborate-not the self inflicted work of an ameateur but epics of the art contrived by Honolulu and Yokohama masters. The tattoos and the injuries are exactly the same to each character because Dick had more injuries but they were less severe. He also had more tattoos but they were not as elaborate as Perry's. Perry did not have as many injuries but they were more severe. And he also does not have as many tattoos but they are more elaborate. The way that Perry and Dick are injured pertain to their tattos by having the same general idea.