Influenced From Childhood

In part three of In Cold Blood, I think that Perry has the guts to do something bad and Dick doesn’t because of their childhood. Dick finds Perry useful because Perry told him that he killed a man once. Dick needs Perry because Dick came from a good home and had a good childhood and has never done anything this big before. Dick’s parents described him as a good guy and a good athlete and was never influenced to do bad things when he was young. They were implying that he would never kill someone and they were right. He didn’t kill anyone because he never intended to. Whereas Dick probably figured with a life like Perry’s and certain experiences Perry should have no problem doing something like this. Perry’s parents were all over the place in his childhood and he seemed that he didn’t know half the time what was going on and the other half didn’t like what was going on. His childhood was bad so he wanted to do bad things to make up for it. It is almost like he had a habit of doing the wrong thing from his childhood.