**What does the setting of the text include?**
+- Holcomb, Kansas, America, 1959
- cultural information - America, small isolated community, agricultural economy, 1959
- explicit mention of dates to set period (Nov 14, 1959)
- Holcomb, Kansas - small town, "not a place that strangers come upon by chance"
- chapter titles - "the last to see them alive" etc
- not going to church
- ambiguous implications
-- “Chinese elms had turned into a tunnel of darkening green” (leading up to Clutters' house)
+- “Chinese elms had turned into a tunnel of darkening green” (leading up to Clutters" house)
- “until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans [..] had ever heard of Holcomb”
- Herbert “headed for home and the day’s work, unaware that it would be his last”
- “if Dick had not hammered home the every-minute importance of the next twenty-four hours” - Dick and Perry planning
### Herbert Clutter
- owns River Valley Farm
-- four children - two daughters + Nancy + Kenyon
+- four children - two daughters (Eveanna + Beverly) + Nancy + Kenyon
- successful - owns large property
-- "I'm not as poor as I look"
+- "I"m not as poor as I look"
+- devout Methodist
+- approves of Bobby but wary of their relationship
-### Nancy Clutter
+### Bonnie Clutter
+- wife of Herbert Clutter
+- mentally unstable (anxiety/BPD)
### Kenyon Clutter
- 15
- builds stuff
+### Nancy Clutter
+- boyfriend Bobby Rupp
+- best friend Susan Kidwell
+
+### Clutter family
+
+- complement each other - "just beautiful honey, a beautiful southern Belle"
+- cares for each other - "poor Bonnie"s afflictions", "just one serious cause of disquiet"
+- controls his kids with a genuine interest - "suggests she see less of Bobby", "his laws were laws"
+- strict routine/organisation
+- a family that was stereotypically perfect until Bonnie was sick - judgement of others
+
+### Bobby Rupp
+- Nancy"s boyfriend
+
+### Alvin Dewey
+- Investigator for Kansas Bureau of Investigation
+- wife Marie (stenographer), two sons
### Dick Hickock
-- murders Clutter with Perry Smith
+- murders Clutters with Perry Smith
+- "Dick, the practical Dick"
+- appears confident
+- married twice, had three sons
+- calls Perry "honey"
+- impulsive - if he had enough money, he "would spend it on vodka and women"
+- egotistical - e.g. tattoos (contrasting themes) etc
+- moderately high IQ
+- diction - indicates uneducation
+- charistmatic (e.g. cheques)
+- "honey"
+- family believes he is more innocent
+- diverts blame to others, justifies behaviour
+- desire for "American Dream"
+- assumes power over Perry
+- views himself as a victim of society
+- food
+- cautious of Perry due to tendency to suddenly take control
+
+
+
+*Perry and Dick appear less genuinely criminal at the beginning of the novel*
### Perry Smith
-- murders Clutter with Dick Hickock
+- murders Clutters with Dick Hickock
+- injured in motorcycle accident
- breakfast - "three aspirin, cold root beer and a chain of Paul Mall cigarettes"
- self-centred/egotistical - “Every time you see a mirror you go into a trance”
- more open/prominent in text than Dick
+- messy/materialistic - “Christ, Perry. You carry that junk everywhere?”
+- "know the ins and outs of hunting gold"
+- has trouble meeting deadlines - "if Dick had not hammered home the every-minute importance of the next twenty-four hours"
+- criminal past
+- "never drank coffeemy name sluger lolol"
+- personal account of boyhood while in Mexico
+- parents were rodeo riders
+- two siblings and one inlaw committed suicide
+- tattoos - more delicate / meaningful than Dick"s (juxtaposition). contrasting themes
+- legs
+- snake in dreams
+- yellow parrot
+- tiger
+- guitar
+- family issues
+- childish
+- hymns/music
+- correcting grammar
+- premonition
+- idolises Willie-Jay
+- relationship with Dick as a substitute for Willie-Jay
+- motivated to murder so that he can be associated with Dick
+- idealistic
+
+### Willie-Jay
+- assistant to prison chaplain
+- respects and mentors Perry
+
+### Minor characters
+
+- Myrtle Clare - postmistress
+- Mrs Hideo Ashida - family moved due to crime
+- Floyd Wells - worked on Clutter farm, imprisoned with Dick, snitched Dick & Perry
+- Andrews - prison inmate, temporary friend of Perry
+- Paul Helm - looks after Clutters" farm, close friend of Herb
+
+### Suspects
+- Bobby Rupp - lie detector test
+- John Jnr/Snr
+- Mr. Smith
+- robbery?
+- Mabel - cafe worker
+- Jonathan Daniel Adrian - breaks into Clutters" house, reported by Paul Helm
+
+**Manhunt** - Floyd Wells alerts authorities and Alvin Dewey starts manhunt. Dick and Perry steal car then return to Kansas to produce more cheques. They then move to Miami, then Las Vegas. Policewoman in Vegas recognises car. Dick confesses first, then Perry. Both undergo trial and are condemned to death. Five year appeal process - Perry starves himself, Dick writes letters to organisations. Dick accepts death sentence politely, Perry regretful/apologetic.
+
+## Themes
+
+- appearance vs. reality
+- family & relationships
+- juxtaposition/irony
+
+## Text structure
+
+Transition between scenes:
+
+- linking event/scenario e.g. car engine, full moon etc
+- continuous timeframe
+- songs/hymns
+- location is gradually introduced into transitions
+- aids with flow of storyline
+- foreshadowing of collision of character narratives
+
+## Writing style
+
+- detail
+- imagery
+- mixed perspective
+
+### Rhetorical devices
+
+*Specific word choices that are used to create meaning, evoke emotion or to persuade audiences*
+
+- **Alliteration** - repetition of first sound
+- **Metaphor** - directly compares two things that are not alike
+- **Simile** - compares using "like" or "as"
+- **Anaphora** - same word is repeated at beginning of next phrase for emphasis
+- **Euphemisms** - replacing words with a more positive spin e.g. "little spells", "nervous"
+- **Erotesis** - asking rhetorical questions e.g. "Am I sorry? If that"s what you mean - I am not"
+- **Litotes** - double negatives, e.g. "not unlike"
+
+### Figurative language
+
+*When a word or sentence does not have its literal meaning*
+
+- **Hyperbole** - describing something in an exaggerated manner
+- **Imagery** - including details that appeal to the senses
+ - animals e.g. Perry's parrot (spiritual/saviour); dogs & coyotes (violence/fear)
+
+## Creative response analysis
+
+- knowledge of other parts of text
+- minor characters
+- descriptive imagery
+- linking motif in scene transitions
+- long sentences
+- include obscure plot details
+- implicit explanation of people & emotions
+- contrasting voice of dialogue & narrations
+- use obvious/explicit motifs sparingly
+- past tense consistently
+- don"t replicate events from original
+
+### Statement of intention
+
+- explore purpose & style
+- explain themes & symobls
+- **justification of creative choices**
+
+1. Outline what you have explored (characters, themes, settings)
+2. Outline how you explored the above imitating Capote's style
+3. Outline why you have made these choices
+
+## Essay notes
+
+- introduction - Herb and Kenyon walk along property boundary inspecting fences (short paragraph)
+- Teddy (Clutters' dog)
+- driving to Garden City (Dick drives)
+- timeframe - meet in morning, drive and arrive at Holcomb at night
+- Perry - muscular
+- Perry's belief in fate/superstition
+- Perry forgot to bring gloves
+- "No witnesses" - Dick
+- black stockings, rope
+- shopping at Emporia, Kansas
+- foreshadowing
+- Perry's ego/selfishness
+- **siphoning petrol**
+
+
+### Statement of Intention notes
+
+- symbolism of Herb and Kenyon introduction - foreshadowing
+- setting/choice of prompt - important time for setting up plot
+- hyphens/long sentences
+- rubber gloves - integration with original plot
+- guitar stolen - symoblism of Perry losing his freedom of expression
+- transition - walking/pacing metaphor (Capote's style)
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