In Cold Blood Suffering Analysis
In Cold Blood is a reflection of psychological pain because it illustrates the psychological pain experienced by the Clutters in their final hours and the innocent people involved the aftermath of the Clutter murders. The Clutters suffer terrible psychological pain from the time Smith and Hickock break into their home to the individual times of their deaths. The people involved in the aftermath also suffer psychological pain because distrust and fear is spread among the people of Holcomb and a toll is taken on the investigators that were assigned the task to solve the mystery of the murder of the Clutters. The Clutters suffer terrible psychological pain because Perry Smith and Dick Hickock break into their home, hold them in bondage, steal
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“Well,” he said, passing around a snapshot reproduction of Perry Smith’s portrait of Jesus, “any man who could paint this picture can’t be one hundred percent bad. All the same it’s hard to know what to do. Capital punishment is no answer: it doesn’t give the sinner time enough to come to God. Sometimes I despair.”
(Capote 306)
“Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached your verdicts?” Their foreman replied: “We have, Your Honor.” The court bailiff carried the sealed verdicts to the bench.
Train whistles, the fanfare of an approaching Santa Fe express, penetrated the courtroom. Tate’s bass voice interlaced with the locomotive’s cries as he read: “‘Count One. We the jury find the defendant, Richard Eugene Hickock, guilty of murder in the first degree, and the punishment is death.’”
(Capote 307) The Revered Post says that as Christians, the people of Holcomb should not use capital punishment, especially not against Smith and Hickock, who he says deserve time to repent. The Christian values that are preached are not followed though because crimes against the Clutters committed by Smith and Hickock are so despicable that even the devout Christians of Holcomb are willing to go against their religious beliefs to punish Smith and
“Well,” he said, passing around a snapshot reproduction of Perry Smith’s portrait of Jesus, “any man who could paint this picture can’t be one hundred percent bad. All the same it’s hard to know what to do. Capital punishment is no answer: it doesn’t give the sinner time enough to come to God. Sometimes I despair.”
(Capote 306)
“Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached your verdicts?” Their foreman replied: “We have, Your Honor.” The court bailiff carried the sealed verdicts to the bench.
Train whistles, the fanfare of an approaching Santa Fe express, penetrated the courtroom. Tate’s bass voice interlaced with the locomotive’s cries as he read: “‘Count One. We the jury find the defendant, Richard Eugene Hickock, guilty of murder in the first degree, and the punishment is death.’”
(Capote 307) The Revered Post says that as Christians, the people of Holcomb should not use capital punishment, especially not against Smith and Hickock, who he says deserve time to repent. The Christian values that are preached are not followed though because crimes against the Clutters committed by Smith and Hickock are so despicable that even the devout Christians of Holcomb are willing to go against their religious beliefs to punish Smith and