Reading Standards

English Standard


2. Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development
over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another
to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.

         The story I'm currently reading is called," In Cold Blood." The book talks about a mystery going on about a family of four who were murdered. The book tells a side of the victims life and the side of the murders. The story takes place in Holcomb which is located in Kansas. Herb Clutter is a successful farmer in Holcomb, and he owns River Valley Farm. Herb as a wife named Bonnie, and two children living at home, Nancy that is sixteen, and Kenyon who is fifteen. They have other three children who live away.
        On the other hand, Dick and Perry are two mates who celled together at the Kansas State Penitentiary. Dick and Perry are on parole, and they are going on a long journey for there "score." They talk about the things they are getting before going on their journey, for example, stockings, a type of rope. This gives the reader an idea of what they are up to. They also mention that nobody will live to bear witness.
        Going back to the Clutters, Nancy likes this boy named Bobby and he goes one night to the Clutter's to spend time with Nancy, and its late at night and they are watching television. Bobby gets up to leave and in the story he describes every single thing he is doing. At last, when he is leaving the Clutters in his truck he notices someone waiting in the tree's waiting for him to leave.
              Dick and Perry arrive to Holcomb and they are trying to find the Clutter's residence, and they do.

             The next day, Sunday, Nancy Ewalt , a neighbor goes to the Clutter's to go to church. When she arrives she finds it unusual that none of the Clutter's are responding to her knocks, and she know there in their house because the cars are parked. She goes to Susan's house, Nancy's best friend and tells her about it, and so they both decide to go to the Clutter's again and go inside the house. Inside the house the two see Nancy's purse on the ground so they know she is in the house. The go up to her room and that's when they find Nancy dead. They run out screaming, and later on they find the whole family murdered.