NOTE: The Scissortail Extra Credit questions are the in the post BELOW this one
ALSO: Read as much of Part Two as you can, but you don't have to finish it for Monday. We'll discuss this chapter all week in class.
Answer TWO of the following:
Q1: Shortly after the crime, Perry confides to Dick
that "There's got to be something wrong with somebody who'd do a thing
like that" (108). He says this several times, though Dick basically shrugs
it off, considering himself "a normal." Is Perry expressing regret or
remorse here? What does he mean by this, and how might it explain something
about why they did it in the first place?
Q2: Mrs. Dewey, the wife of one of the investigators, asks her husband,
"Do you think we'll ever have a normal life again?" (105). This
is a question many people are asking themselves today, in the wake of COVID and
social distancing. Why are they worried that life will change and never be
'normal' again after one family's death? What has changed in their eyes?
Q3: Why does Capote include several long letters from the people in Perry's
life--his father and his sister, especially? What do we learn about him through
these letters, and why do you think he kept them (esp. as they are often very
critical of his behavior)?
Q4: Dewey, the lead investigator, felt that "at least one of the murderers
was emotionally involved with the victims, and felt for them, even as he
destroyed them" (103). What made him think this, and why did their seem to
be a personal motive involved in the killings? As far as we know, was this
true?
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