In Cold Blood Quotes And Analysis Essay

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Capote’s purpose of this passage was to convey Perry’s difficult childhood and the pain he had to endure. Perry’s fantasises about the bird for years is how Capote uses symbolism in this passage to represent the strong sense of hope Perry feels for a brighter future. Perry had lived a life of abuse since he was a small boy from his own family who left him abandoned. He then got sent to an orphanage and got beatings there too. Perry simply wants to be free from all that, to feel powerful and not a helpless weak boy like he once was. Capote makes Perry’s dream extremely significant to Perry because of how it motivated him to keep going and to follow his dreams. However, in the dream Perry never had the ability to catch the parrot symbolizing that he never accomplished his dreams of living a luxurious and well-educated life. …show more content…
This raises the question, how does murdering an innocent family satisfy in taking away their dreams and desires just because one couldn’t accomplish their own? Is it the jealousy and anger that drove Perry to commit this sickening act or the belief that just because he didn’t get what he wanted, others shouldn’t either? If I were Perry, I would stray away from the whole parrot dream and I’d find something more realistic to help me accomplish what I desire. Even though Capote uses imagery when describing the parrot by stating, “taller than Jesus, yellow like a sunflower,” a warrior angel who blinded the nuns with its beak, fed upon their eyes, slaughtered them as they “pleaded for mercy,” then so gently lifted him, enfolded him, winged him away to “paradise,” making the bird seem like a savior, in the end the bird didn’t help Perry personally. This passage sums up the story behind what caused Perry to seek murder as a way to fulfill his gruesome desire to bring pain to other people’s
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