Through the use of flashbacks that author allow for the reader to get to know more about Perry and his childhood. He describes “It was not long afterward my mother put me …show more content…
He acknowledges “four of them told the court that they had been personally...acquainted with Mr.Clutter… when asked his opinion of capital punishment, “Ordinarily I'm against it. But in this case, no”...Dunna was nevertheless accepted as a juror,”(Capote 273) Capote is criticizing the choice, in doing so he makes the reader aware that Perry and Dick were set up in order to be sentenced to death thus provoking sympathy for them because their fate was already decided from the beginning of the trial. Throughout the book, the reader may infer Perry is mentally ill but, Logan green said “it's no great job to find whether a man is insane or an idiot or an imbecile… It is entirely unnecessary, a waste of time to send the defendants to Larned,”(Capote 267) in adding this quote, Capote makes the reader notice there wasn't a fair chance given at another possibility other than capital punishment, expanding on the feeling of injustice and anger towards it. He uses a critical point in order to criticize the death penalty and to make people dislike the death penalty and have condolence for Perry and