Wednesday, August 29, 2012

In Cold Blood - Blog 1

Please read pages 31 - 72 and respond to the prompts below.  Use quotes when stipulated.  2 - 5 sentences should suffice.

1.  A description of Garden City is given on 30 - 31.  We learn of many things.  One is how the taste of Americans change.  Describe this.  Secondly, we learn about why people prefer Garden City to other cities.  Describe this.  Use a quote as support.

2.  We see yet another stellar example of foreshadowing on 35.  Cite it.

3.  The word twine is used on page 39.  How might this be symbolic?

4.  Why was Perry really in Kansas?  Do you think this is an excuse he came up with after the murders? Use a quote as support.

5.  Dick and Perry start to have ominous signs.  Cite two.

6.  We're in Japan and thus far there are two connections to this lovely country.  What are they?

7.  What is a "natural killer' to Dick?  Use a quotation as support.

8.  When it was thought the murderers were local, what did one man mean when he said, "if they ever find out who done it, I'm sure it'll be a bigger surprise than the murders themselves" (69)?  There's one word in there that is distinctly American; what is it?  What larger theme does this connect to?

9.  What's the last, disturbing image Capote ends this chapter with?  Use a quote as support.