Pre-Seminar Response - 3.24.16

Well, there was this quote that was on the screen today... And honestly, I didn't really know what to say. But what I'm gathering is that for all the humans that have lived, some do not grant mercy to those who come after them and so on. I believe he is also trying to say that people generally have their love/likeliness strengthen for those who generally take pity, like poor people or people who have had wrong done to them, and so on. I would like to talk about the word pity as well. It stands out to me and I feel it is a word that could help describe the two murder characters in the novel. Throughout the book I had an on and off sense of sympathy for them. After learning of Perry's violent and horrible childhood I had pity for him because he was most likely not in the right mind when he committed those murders. I had also felt sympathy for Dick, mostly because he was given capital punishment for essentially just being by Perry's side when the murders of the Clutter family happened. But, these men do not deserve pity, they deserve to be treated the way they are even though they may or may not be in the right minds.