Who Is Truman Capote's In Cold Blood?

Have you ever wondered how a human being has it in him to kill another of his type? Believe it or not there are cruel people out there just like that. People that don’t care who they hurt or what the consequence is, but the benefit they get from it. The great author Truman Capote wrote a non-fictional novel about a great mass murder of his time. The novel that was later made into a movie was called “In Cold Blood”. It is a novel packed with suspense,empathy, and an insight on American violence. The novel will take you back through a the story of the murder and the investigation and execution of the killers. It introduces you to all four of the victims, the killers,and investigators of Holcomb,Kansas. the narrator of the novel Truman Capote …show more content…
Truman Capote, an incredible writer that in his later years became engulfed in journalism around the same time he came out with “In Cold Blood”.Capote was born on September 30,1924 in New Orleans. His father originally named him Truman Streckfus Persons, he however later changed his name to Truman Capote.Truman was not very interested in school as a teenager, and dropped out of highschool at the age of 17. He later returned however to complete his senior year.He wanted to work in The New York times no one however was interested in his writing. As time went by he became primarily a novelist,paperwrite.essayist,short story and screenplay writer. People however remember him more for his novel In Cold Blood. Capote is said to have a very nonchalant way of writing, but at the same time very artistic. Critics are challenged when they critique his works due to the fact that they simply can not tell …show more content…
As described on page sixty-two “She had been shot in the back of the head by a shotgun held maybe two inches away from her head”. this shows the brutality of the murder, but at the same time gave their victim a fast death.The story then continous in chapter two with the investigation process in this part the reader meets the investigators in charge of the case and the witnesses that were involved.Capote had a great way to give all the necessary details without making the story longer than it should.Lastly in the last section of the book the capture and the execution of the murders is revealed. It is said in page 336 that the defendants attorneys tried every possible way they could to try and get their clients forgiven but all their efforts failed. The murders were convicted and later in the year of 1965 they were hung.(In Cold