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THE RIOTS, Presentation of Police, Presentation of Violence, "the…

- - - - PAGE 76 : twenty blown-up glossy-print pictures of Mr Clutter's shattered skull, his son's demolished face, Nancy's bound hands, her mother's death-dulled, still-staring eyes, and so on
        
        PAGE 83 : the quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply
    - - PAGE 41 : the flaw? Explosive emotional reaction out of all proportion to the occasion. Why? Why this unreasonable anger at the sight of others who are happy or content, this growing contempt for people and the desire to hurt them?
      - PAGE 75 : Dewey, for example, found it difficult to understand 'how two individuals could reach the same degree of rage, the kind of psychopathic rage it took to comit such a crime.'
      - PAGE 116 : (Perry's Childhood) Childhood - Be glad to tell you, as I see it, both good and bad...
        
        PAGE 121 : (Perry's childhood violence) It was not long afterward my mother put me to stay in a Catholic ophanage. The one where the Black Widows were always hitting me. Hitting me. Because of wetting the bad.
      - PAGE 146 : Next thing I knew, Dick was talking about killing Mr Clutter. ... He described to me a dozen times how he was gonna do it, how him and Perry was gonna tie them people up and gun them down.
      - PAGE 183 : With a knife in his hand, he, Dick, had power
      - PAGE 184 : He was sorry he felt as he did about her, for his sexual interest in female children was a failing of which he was 'sincerely ashamed'
  - - - PAGE 79 : but he noticed in her tone an uncharacteristic anxiety
        
        PAGE 101 : "When Perry said, 'I think there must be something wrong with us,' he was making an admission he 'hated to make'."
      - PAGE 195 : But Paul begged him, "Don't do that, Daddy, don't bring him here." He was frightened - any nine-year-old might've been.
    - - PAGE 47 : - there wasn't any other family like them, not around here, not that I know of. Mr Clutter may have been mor strict about some things - religion, and so on - but he never tried to make you feel he was right and you were wrong.
      - Goodness in community
        
        PAGE 70 : For, feeling it their duty, a Christian task, these men has voluneeted to clean certain of fourteen rooms in the main house at RIver Valley Farm, rooms in which four of the Clutter family has been murdered by, as theie death certificates declared, "a person or persons unknown"
      - PAGE 76 : (Nancy Clutter's diary) and now he settled down to an earnest reading of the day-by-day entries, which began on her thirteenth birthday and ended some two months short of her seventeeth : the unsensational confidings of an intelligent child who adored animals, who liked to read, cook, sew, dance, ride horseback- a popular pretty, virginal girl
    - - PAGE 88 : Reverend Leonard Cown said : 'God offers us courage, love and hope even thoguh we walk through the shadows of the valley of death.
        
        PAGE 88 : Jesus has never promised us we would not suffer pain or sorrow and the pain
    - - PAGE 204 : 'Tell me, Dick. Have you ever heard of the Clutter murder case?' Whereupon, he later wrote in a formal report of the interview, 'Suspect underwent an intense visible reaction. He turned grey. His eyes twitched.
      - PAGE 207 : 'She would have been seventeen.' Perry, sleepless in the dawn hours, wondered (he later recalled) if it was true that today was the girl's birthday,
  - - - Human, Family Man
        
        Contrast : Largely seen as a body of evil, lacking humanity
        
        PAGE 195 : Alvin kissed him. He said, "Now that's O.K., Pauly, we won't let them hurt anybody. They're not going to hurt anybody ever again."