In the book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote the two main characters Dick and Perry. Both of these people have messed up minds and are kind of psychotic but why are they like this? There could be many reasons why they turn out like this and dozens of answers why or excuses why. Although there are many some of the reasons could be they were raised this way or just naturally this way. Hence that Perry is most likely nurture and Dick is nature because of several reasons.
There are many things in the book that bring people to believe Perry psychotic mind and way of life is mostly from nature. This becomes more relevant farther throughout the book when his past, gets more detailed. Perry has a very troubled past with his family and how he was …show more content…
He is very manipulated over and to Perry and leads us to believe he got Perry to kill the entire family. Dick is more on the nature side of things because he was raised in a good stable family. This shows that Dick was naturally psychotic and demented he was raised right but turned to evil because it was just simply in his nature. He was very demented in the fact that he used Perrys weakness of liking him to his advantage but also wanted to rape one of the girls he killed. Which brings us to the difference between nature vs nurture and what effects what in who.
The difference between nature vs nurture is that nature is in your genes and you natural urges to do things at younger age not knowing right from wrong. People typically kill things at young age like Dick did. Be naturally inside has to do with your personality you started with the genes that were given to you. But along with nature come nurture and this is how you are raised and what you were surrounded by made you become the person you are now. Meaning that the way your parents raise you to be giving you support and giving you a stable home helps with what type of person you become when you grow