Summary Of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

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“'Cold Blooded': New Docuseries Picks Up Where 'In Cold Blood' Left Off” article written by Amelia McDonell-Parry. This articles basis is a deeper look into the famous novel “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote more focused on the Clutter family themselves and not the murderers. A documentarian named Joe Berlinger went back and took a closer look at the Clutter case to find out who the victims really where. Many of the populus affiliated with the Clutter family claimed that Capote focused more on the character and aspects of murderers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock and portrayed the clutter family inaccurately (McDonell-Parry). Many new things were learned from the documentary made by Joe Berlinger called: Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders. What is said is that the killers gave graphic descriptions of the murders; giving the motive of believing that Herbert Clutter had thousands of dollars stashed away somewhere in the house but only came across fifty dollars and a radio (McDonell-Parry). Along with other new facts being Nancy Clutter would still be alive if she had not rescheduled her date, Bonnie Clutter was never depressed, Truman Capote never asked for consent from the Clutter family to write this novel, and Harper Lee, author of To Kill a …show more content…

The author of the article, Amelia McDonell-Parry , expresses the reason why “In Cold Blood” was so acclaimed and how Berlinger went farther into depth into the murderers of the Clutter family and the severity of the crime along with how the residents of Holcomb, Kansas viewed it. Quoted in the article, “It's not like we're reinvestigating and presenting a whole new theory and you're going to watch the show and say, 'Oh my God, this is a whole different take on what's happened ” (Joe

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