Throughout the second part of the novel ‘Persons Unknown’, you learn more about Perry Smith’s horrific childhood and begin to form an idea that Smith was in fact nurtured into his murderous self. Capote expresses how as a child he experienced instability in every form, from family life to self-assurance, education (or lack thereof) to literally where he lived. He was exposed to abuse in detrimental situations due to his mother being an alcoholic and his father performing acts on her to gain power. Their partnership fell apart and the children were separated from their parents, they were sent to a Catholic orphanage where he then experienced abuse first hand. “[...] his dreams when he was seven years old, a hated, hating half-breed child living