In Cold Blood Research Paper

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IN COLD BLOOD ESSAY
Are Dick And Perry The True Serial KIllers Everybody Make Them Out To Be
Dick and Perry do not deserve the death penalty.
If he would have got his education he would have stayed out of trouble. “Please, Bobo. Please listen. You think I like myself? Oh, the man I could have been! But that bastard never gave me a chance. He wouldn't let me go to school. O. K. O. K. I was a bad kid. But the time came I begged to go to school. I happen to have a brilliant mind. In case you don't know. A brilliant mind and talent plus. But no education, because he didn't want me to learn anything, only how to tote and carry for him. Dumb,” (102). He wanted to be a good person. He wanted to go to school, if he would have been focused on school …show more content…

She had a flashlight, and she hit me with it. Hit me and hit me. And when the flashlight broke, she went on hitting me in the dark"), that the parrot appeared, arrived while he slept, a bird "taller than Jesus, yellow like a sunflower," a warrior-angel who blinded nuns with its beak, fed upon their eyes, slaughtered them as they "pleaded for mercy," then so gently lifted him, enfolded him, winged him away to "paradise."(185) Perry would not have the anger built up inside him to take out on the Clutters if he had not been beaten so much in his childhood. The trauma from Perry’s past caused him to murder the Clutters, it is not his …show more content…

Prior to the accident, Dick had been a "happy-go-lucky boy," had done well in school, been popular with his classmates and considerate of his parents - "No trouble to anybody." (125)Dick’s head injury caused Dick to start acting differently which may have had an effect on his part in the killing of the Clutters
Dick’s head injuries made him kill the Clutters.
Dick did not like the person he knew he was.The child accepted the gift, where upon Dick smiled and winked at her, He was sorry he felt as he did about her, for his sexual interest in female children was a failing of which he was "sincerely ashamed" (115)
This shows that Dick was a good person he did not kill the Clutters in cold blood.
Dick does not deserve the death penalty because he regrets the thing he does. It is already enough punishment that those deaths are on his

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