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Can a human be portrayed as nice and friendly, when actually they’re a cold blood killer? Perry Smith had a rocky childhood living with a drunken mother, and then being raised by one of the few he loved, his father. Still not everything was easy for him, and even though his father loved him, Perry pushed his father too far, and one day his father pulled a gun on him, and that’s when he decided, he would move out on his own. Not only had he lost his mother to alcohol and a father to violence, he lost his siblings, two of them were already dead and the one still living was in true jealousy of his relationship with their father. Throughout In Cold Blood Truman Capote depicts Perry as a genuine human being, when actually Perry could be defined as evil without a question. Perry seems to have been given all the sympathy because he was abused as a child and never really loved by one main person in his life, but he indeed showed that he had been a murderer prior to the Clutter murders. Perry questions Dick and himself getting caught frequently, after he had already gone through with killing the Clutter family. Once this started Dick started to question the words of Perry, because he had said, he had killed another man earlier. Dick investigates Perry, and there was no doubt about it “he had beaten a colored man to death.” (109) Perry seriously thought there was a difference, because one was a colored man and the other was a white man.
Approximate Word count = 926
Approximate Pages = 3.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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