If you want to know a literary character more fully, ask yourself, "What does this 'person' want?" Choose a character from one of your Summer Reading books and discuss how his/her desires affect his/her choices and actions. .
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Dick Hickock is a very interesting man. Dick is a man who throughout the novel In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, can easily be seen as the epitome of a criminal. A tough, emotionless, inconsiderate, dirty, badass human being, everything that makes a criminal a criminal. Dick, a human who actually existed, believed that life could slip away at any moment, so he always thought why not do what you want with it? In his eyes, the most important things in life where money, sex, and the thrill ride feeling of adrenaline pumping through your veins. These attributes are what make Dick, Dick; they're what shape his desires, and what influence decisions, actions, and choices, they are what influence his death. .
Dick, although a criminal, was a simple, somewhat intelligent man. He knew what to say, what to do, and surely how to commit a crime, which seems is what got him to where he is in the first place. From the minute he met Floyd Wells in a prison in Kansas City, it was quite evident what kind of man Dick was, what he strived for. As he learns of the great Clutter's wealth in Holcomb, he immediately latches on to the idea of having this wealth like a parasite latching on its host. For the next years, Dick's only goal is to obtain this wealth, his only desire. He doesn't care about family, about friends, and his future, merely obtaining that money and doing everything in his power to do so. Wells giving him all the information he needed to know, Dick begins his plan. Every action matters, every choice is significant, every little movement revolves around Dicks desire for wealth, his greed. .
Dick's desire for this wealth, influence his every move; the first, finding a partner.
