Monday, November 16, 2009

Within the third part of Capote’s In Cold Blood the reader gets a true sense of how Capote wants to portray Dick in the book. So far most background of life as a child has been focused on Perry. Dick has been left out and abandoned in the book. Capote does this to more dehumanize Dick and to give the reader the sense of how Dick is evil and cunning. “Think of him,” she said, placing a finger against the front-view portrait of the blonde young man. “Think of those eyes. Coming towards you.”….. I wish you hadn’t shown me”(165). This quotation shows how Capote manipulates the reader’s limited knowledge of Dick to show him to be a monster. Due to prior to this quotation Capote goes into detail about Perry’s picture and his eyes and how Alvin Dewey’s wife doesn’t see them as totally evil whereas with Dick she just sees meanness. Later in part three of in cold blood as Dick and Perry go back to Kansas and Perry is left to wash clothes when it is time for Dick to pick up Perry from the laundry mat Perry gets second thought about working with Dick. Capote portrays these feeling to show the reader that even Dicks own partner wasn’t in full trust with him.

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