In Cold Blood Symbolism
In Cold Blood
In the year 1959 in River Valley Farm, located in Holcomb Kansas. The residents of that farm, the Clutter's, are a hardworking family who have achieved the American Dream. Herb, the father, is a Methodist whose hardworking skills have made him a popular man throughout the town. Herb's wife, Bonnie, who is mentally ill, and her marriage to Herb is troubled. Nancy and Kenyon, are hard, working smart teenage children. One night in mid-November, four gunshots ended the lives of the Clutter family. The town goes into frantic mode as the killers Perry Edward Smith and Richard (Dick) Eugene Hickock flee to Olathe. As a group of detectives lead by Alvin Dewey go to the crime. There Alvin finds one of two clues that will bring down the killers a boot print and the material that the killers tied the clutters …show more content…
Even after Dick and Perry don't find the safe they go looking around the house for any spare change. The silver dollar symbolizes that the robbing was pointless, but yet they were desperate for …show more content…
Inside it was a silver dollar. I dropped it somehow, and it rolled across the floor. Rolled under a chair. I had to get down on my knees. And then it was like I was outside myself. Watching myself in some nutty movie. It made me sick. I was just disgusted Dick, and all his talk about a rich man safe, and here I am crawling on my belly to steal a child’s silver dollar. One dollar. And i'm crawling on my belly to get it" (Capote 240). Then, before he killed Mr.Clutter he remembered the silver dollar again.
“I knelt down beside Mr. Clutter, and the pain of kneeling–I thought about that goddam dollar. Silver dollar. The shame. Disgust” (Capote 240). Perry knew he would never be rich and have money once Mr. Clutter told them he had no safe. But it was too late to turn back then so they just took what they could and killed the
In the year 1959 in River Valley Farm, located in Holcomb Kansas. The residents of that farm, the Clutter's, are a hardworking family who have achieved the American Dream. Herb, the father, is a Methodist whose hardworking skills have made him a popular man throughout the town. Herb's wife, Bonnie, who is mentally ill, and her marriage to Herb is troubled. Nancy and Kenyon, are hard, working smart teenage children. One night in mid-November, four gunshots ended the lives of the Clutter family. The town goes into frantic mode as the killers Perry Edward Smith and Richard (Dick) Eugene Hickock flee to Olathe. As a group of detectives lead by Alvin Dewey go to the crime. There Alvin finds one of two clues that will bring down the killers a boot print and the material that the killers tied the clutters …show more content…
Even after Dick and Perry don't find the safe they go looking around the house for any spare change. The silver dollar symbolizes that the robbing was pointless, but yet they were desperate for …show more content…
Inside it was a silver dollar. I dropped it somehow, and it rolled across the floor. Rolled under a chair. I had to get down on my knees. And then it was like I was outside myself. Watching myself in some nutty movie. It made me sick. I was just disgusted Dick, and all his talk about a rich man safe, and here I am crawling on my belly to steal a child’s silver dollar. One dollar. And i'm crawling on my belly to get it" (Capote 240). Then, before he killed Mr.Clutter he remembered the silver dollar again.
“I knelt down beside Mr. Clutter, and the pain of kneeling–I thought about that goddam dollar. Silver dollar. The shame. Disgust” (Capote 240). Perry knew he would never be rich and have money once Mr. Clutter told them he had no safe. But it was too late to turn back then so they just took what they could and killed the