From: Andrew Lorimer Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 05:18:11 +0000 (+1100) Subject: add more character notes for ICB X-Git-Tag: yr12~284 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/notes.git/diff_plain/694ad3f725dd1019e7b9d21c06b5d018ec3f8fa9?ds=sidebyside add more character notes for ICB --- diff --git a/english/cold-blood.md b/english/cold-blood.md index de5d479..423181c 100644 --- a/english/cold-blood.md +++ b/english/cold-blood.md @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ **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" @@ -43,26 +44,44 @@ p 25, 41, 52, 63, 67 ### Herbert Clutter - owns River Valley Farm -- four children - two daughters + Nancy + Kenyon +- four children - two daughters (Eveanna + anon) + Nancy + Kenyon - successful - owns large property - "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 + +### Bobby Rupp +- Nancy's boyfriend + +## Alvin Dewey +- Investigator for Kansas Bureau of Investigation +- wife Marie, two sons + + ### Dick Hickock -- murders Clutter with Perry Smith +- murders Clutters with Perry Smith - "Dick, the practical Dick" +- appears confident ### 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 @@ -70,4 +89,8 @@ p 25, 41, 52, 63, 67 - "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" \ No newline at end of file +- "never drank coffeemy name sluger lolol" + +### Willie-Jay +- assistant to prison chaplain +- respects and mentors Perry \ No newline at end of file