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   1# *In Cold Blood* - Truman Capote
   2
   3## Setting
   4
   5**What does the setting of the text include?**
   6
   7- cultural information - America, small isolated community, agricultural economy, 1959
   8- explicit mention of dates to set period (Nov 14, 1959)
   9- Holcomb, Kansas - small town, "not a place that strangers come upon by chance"
  10- introduction to characters - family interactions/relationships
  11- integration of events & people to describe culture/period/location
  12- "hip-high, sheep-slaughtering snows" - harsh weather
  13- description of clothing - "narrow frontier trousers, Stevensons, and high heeled boots"
  14- description of accent - "the local accent is barbed with a prairie twang"
  15- landscape - dusty, dry flat, vast
  16- low population
  17- "few Americans [..] had ever heard of Holcomb"
  18- dilapidated buildings, uniform through town
  19
  20**How do the setting and events work together?**
  21
  22**Foreshadowing**
  23
  24p 25, 41, 52, 63, 67
  25
  26- chapter titles - "the last to see them alive" etc
  27- not going to church
  28- ambiguous implications
  29- “Chinese elms had turned into a tunnel of darkening green” (leading up to Clutters' house)
  30- “until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans [..] had ever heard of Holcomb”
  31- Herbert “headed for home and the day’s work, unaware that it would be his last”
  32- “if Dick had not hammered home the every-minute importance of the next twenty-four hours” - Dick and Perry planning
  33- “the only sure thing is every one of them has got to go” - Dick
  34- “four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives”
  35- “Only now when I think back, I think somebody must have been hiding there. Maybe down among the trees. Somebody just waiting for me to leave”
  36- dual narrative in chronological order approaching murder
  37- - create a sense that the narrative will "collide"
  38- - different settings, same time
  39
  40
  41## Characters
  42
  43### Herbert Clutter
  44
  45- owns River Valley Farm
  46- four children - two daughters + Nancy + Kenyon
  47- successful - owns large property
  48- "I'm not as poor as I look"
  49
  50### Nancy Clutter
  51
  52
  53### Kenyon Clutter
  54- 15
  55- builds stuff
  56
  57
  58### Dick Hickock
  59
  60- murders Clutter with Perry Smith
  61- "Dick, the practical Dick"
  62
  63### Perry Smith
  64
  65- murders Clutter with Dick Hickock
  66- breakfast - "three aspirin, cold root beer and a chain of Paul Mall cigarettes"
  67- self-centred/egotistical - “Every time you see a mirror you go into a trance”
  68- more open/prominent in text than Dick
  69- messy/materialistic - “Christ, Perry. You carry that junk everywhere?”
  70- "know the ins and outs of hunting gold"
  71- has trouble meeting deadlines - "if Dick had not hammered home the every-minute importance of the next twenty-four hours"
  72-  criminal past
  73- "never drank coffeemy name sluger lolol"