Be sure to get me your Paper #3 by 5pm on Monday! You can still turn it in late, but you lose -10 pts. for each day afterwards (5pm Monday to 5pm Tuesday counts as one day, etc.).
Answer TWO of the following:
Q1: The concept of fate runs through the entire book, and terrible decisions seem to be made by chance encounters or strange coincidences. How does fate itself seem to play a role in the murder? Why might Perry be particularly influenced by the idea of fate?
Q2: Writing of the nearest 'big' town, Capote says, “Without exception, Garden Citians deny that the population of the town can be socially graded…but, of course, class distinctions are as clearly observed, and as clearly observable, as in any other human hive. A hundred miles west and one would be out of the “Bible Belt,” that gospel-haunted strip of American territory in which a man must, if only for business reasons, take his religion with the straightest of faces…” (34). Why is the setting of the novel as important as the murder itself, at least for Capote? How could it have also (like fate) been an accomplice?
Q3: What is strange about how Dick and Perry murder the Clutter family? Why does it lead the police to believe that the murderers were someone who obviously knew the family, and possibly held them a particular grudge?
Q4: Besides the horror of losing people they knew and loved (the Clutters), what is the greatest aftermath of the murder? How does it begin to change the town and make them look at themselves, and the world, in a different light?
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