- 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
- owns River Valley Farm
- 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
### 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"
+- 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
+- Nancy"s boyfriend
### Alvin Dewey
- Investigator for Kansas Bureau of Investigation
- 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
+- tattoos - more delicate / meaningful than Dick"s (juxtaposition). contrasting themes
- legs
- snake in dreams
- yellow parrot
- 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
+- Paul Helm - looks after Clutters" farm, close friend of Herb
### Suspects
- Bobby Rupp - lie detector test
- Mr. Smith
- robbery?
- Mabel - cafe worker
-- Jonathan Daniel Adrian - breaks into Clutters' house, reported by Paul Helm
+- 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.
- 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
- contrasting voice of dialogue & narrations
- use obvious/explicit motifs sparingly
- past tense consistently
-- don't replicate events from original
+- don"t replicate events from original
### Statement of intention
This was not a breakfast that Perry would approve of, but thankfully, for Dick, the pair had returned to their respective families. Perry's family was more suspicious of his absence than Dick's, but Perry was experienced in the art of convincing, and had no trouble dispelling his father's assumptions. However, even Perry was still uncomfortable to be in the vicinity of his family, particularly his sister who he had observed to be distant and ignorant of him lately.
-After waking from a short but deep sleep, Perry covered his previously bare tattoos with a checked shirt, then slid on some ripped blue jeans. Despite being utterly disinterested in working on Tex Smith's dilapidated property, he hoped that these jeans would be viewed favourably by his father. Perry downed his breakfast in his usual rushed and slapdash fashion, then hurriedly left the house without a word to his family. He took his guitar with him, which he was almost as attached to as his partner in crime. Admittedly, Perry had grown used to having Dick by his side, making witty jokes and showing off to Perry. However, this was a feeling that Perry knew well by now, having iterated through many "best friends".
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+After waking from a short but deep sleep, Perry covered his previously bare tattoos with a checked shirt, then slid on some ripped blue jeans. Despite being utterly disinterested in working on Tex Smith's dilapidated property, he hoped that these jeans would be viewed favourably by his father. Perry downed his breakfast in his usual rushed and slapdash fashion, then hurriedly left the house without a word to his family. He took his guitar with him, which he was almost as attached to as his partner in crime. Admittedly, Perry had grown used to having Dick by his side, making witty jokes and showing off to Perry. However, this was a feeling that Perry knew well by now, having iterated through many "best friends".
+
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+
+*Write a passage describing the night Dick and Perry spent in the Salvation Army dormitory, mentioned on p190*
+
+- Dick & Perry discussion
+- Night time
+- Themes: Perry's childhood
+- Dick is dismissive of Perry's lamentation
+
+A cool draft blew through the cracked timber walls of the dormitory. A foreign mix of body odour, rotting wood and mould permeated through the dark room. It was now pitch black outside, and the only light in Dick and Perry's temporary shelter was a dangling yellow light bulb which Dick had already come close to punching several times.
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