Truman Capote's Nonfiction Narrative

Capote’s Nonfiction Narrative

Contrasting, examining, and interpreting individual critics evaluation on various types of text is all part of the literary critic’s process. In this process they use evidence to support their opinion. An individual’s personal view can be influenced through both positive and negative bias. Truman Capote was very familiar to his time. The content he published and addressed to his society was something new to them. It took much of Capote’s time to be able to create his novel In Cold Blood. Capote was constantly observing the life revolving Holcomb Kansas to be able to obtain the information he needed for the murder of the Clutter family. The mid 1960’s literary work of Truman Capote was published as a

There are also critics that have strong opinions on whether or not it should be categorized as a journal or crime documentary. Algeo has confidence that Capote’s novel should be identified as a journal “In Cold Blood” is not a novel, it is only a book, a work of journalism of an exceptionally compelling kind. By his willingness to be implicated in his story… Mr. Capote is employing objectivity as a shield for evasion” (Algeo 77). Capote took journalism that reflects thought and research to an advanced degree. (Algeo 77). Algeo is saying that because Capote shows fair mindedness he wards off any argument or question (Algeo 77). The flip side of the novel being argued a journal is it being a crime documentary, which is supported by critic Phillips. “Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is a cross between a detective story and a crime documentary. It cannot be considered in any meaningful sense a novel, though it invites criticism as a novel by pretending somehow to be one and by using machinery of fiction” (Phillips 102). As a result of Capote airing his new genre, individuals were aroused and credulous (Phillips 102). The readers fell for his false citation and now had the wrong impression of his novel (Phillips 102). Although, Capote’s In Cold Blood can be considered a documentary because it possesses no fictual elements and is based on real life(Phillips 102). Galloway is confident that Capote did

Likewise, the four person, horrific murder of the Clutter’s was also something unique to his society. When Truman Capote arrived in Holcomb, Kansas to scour for information on the murder of the beloved family. There is no proof to prove Capote intended to write a bias novel. Although when In Cold Blood was published, it was clear he inaccurately labeled his novel as a nonfiction narrative. The awful murder and heartache of the commemorative novel of the Clutter family, was taken away from them by Capote for a opportunity to include sympathy towards the killers. Capote did a horrendous job at keeping opinions and judgements out of the novel. Being labeled a ‘nonfiction’ was clearly imprecise due to these judgements and opinions appearing in the novel. These bias parts of the book directed correlated with the sympathy that was revealed for the murderers. Ultimately, Truman Capote’s incapability of writing the novel without adding his personal opinions and fictional information, added too much hue to the novel. As a result of this, the subtitle of In Cold Blood, ‘A True Account of a Murder’ is extremely