In the novel, In Cold Blood, Truman Capote writes about the killing of four members in the Clutter family due to two men, Perry and Dick, trying to get money in Holcomb Kansas in 1959. The author reconstructs the Clutter’s murder case, from a day before the killing to after the death sentence of Perry and Dick, to give a view into the nature of American violence to people who enjoy crime cases. Truman Capote appeals to the shock and sympathy of the reader through the use of flashbacks and a critical tone in order for them to feel pity for the killers, especially Perry.
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
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