Analysis Of In Cold Blood By Truman Capote

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In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote is about a true murder case of the Clutter family which occurred in 1959. Capote reveals the real story of the murders, Richard (Dick) Hickock and Perry Smith, to people. He managed to turn this case into more like a novel, considering that he wasn’t there for almost all of the back stories and he had to use his imagination and work around what has been said to create an actual story. In order to create more of a fiction novel, Capote mixes his journalistic elements with fictional elements, he inserts in his own opinion and creates a story. And finally, I think Capote’s main purpose in writing this book is to put out to the readers a different perspective on criminals and convince them to be more sympathetic …show more content…

For example Capote states, “After they had traveled in silence awhile, Dick patted Perry on the knee. ‘Aw come on,’ he said. ‘It was a puky idea. What the hell would they have thought? I bargain in there lie it was a goddam five-’n’-dime…’” (46). Here, it is obvious that Capote wasn’t in the car ride with them, he clearly used his interviews with Dick and Perry to help him assume what they might have talked about. The reader can get a good picture on what these two people are like just by the dialogue and voice Capote includes for them. We learn more about who they are and how Perry is more intelligent and had a hard childhood, whereas Dick confident and cold-hearted. Capote uses all of these elements of journalism and fiction to create a fiction like scene, just like this …show more content…

Because what mostly goes through people’s minds when they hear or see that someone has murdered an innocent person is that they want them to get executed or they want something bad to happen to that murderer. Kind of like an eye for an eye. But in this book, after reading about the murderers Dick and especially Perry, and who they are, the reader kind of feels bad for them. Like you didn’t want them to die in the end. Almost all of the book is about them, mostly Perry, and the reader can kind of feel the same connection that Capote had towards

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