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    Picture your life taking place in a small town where nothing ever happens and suddenly out of nowhere, a family murdered in cold blood. In the nonfiction novel, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, he uses many rhetorical devices and strategies. By using these strategies he creates a nonfiction novel worth reading. Capote uses devices such as pathos, imagery, foreshadowing, and an always changing tone. He uses these devices to lead on a mysterious murder first hand in which they are investigating to…

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    The Power of Capote In Cold Blood was a story which shook the nation. Describing the gruesome murders of the Clutter family, Truman Capote appeals to his readers’ emotions and plays on their empathy. As the story progresses, Capote’s focus changes. His purpose for writing this book seems to shift. He got emotionally invested in the characters, and that determined which direction the story went. Capote has a way of manipulating his readers into supporting his purpose. Their view of the…

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    Perry Smith, a man forever shrouded in infamy, shot four innocent people, two of which were minors, with no apparent motive. Yet, throughout the novel In Cold Blood, Truman Capote masterfully weaves a complex web of factual evidence and first-hand accounts to repaint a cold-blooded killer as a human being in which to sympathize with. The most obvious way Perry draws sympathy is his traumatic and turbulent childhood. Smith spent the first few years of life moving constantly with his family, often…

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    long time and those talents could lead them into either a positive or a negative way. But this is not always a case. Truman Capote, an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor, wrote In Cold Blood after the murder of Clutter family in Kansas City on November 15, 1959. In the book, he described every character’s character and their past stories. According to this book, one is qualified to the idea that adversity has the effect of eliciting talents. When one had a pretty good…

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    carefree, wealthy life that he craves (Capote, 1965, p. 194). His disregard of consequences can also be shown by looking at some of his other actions: robbing many different shops, using fake checks in order to reach his desired lifestyle, returning to Kansas after committing a mass murder, and murdering the Clutters in the first place. Along with ignoring the consequences of his actions, the reader can also see Dick’s lack of guilt over all of the crimes that he commits. While the normal person…

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    During the 1950s, Homosexuality was deemed a danger to society and social order, so much so that the Federal Bureau of Investigation kept a watch list of known gays and lesbians. In writing In Cold Blood, Truman Capote—an openly gay man—gives some evidence that the two men, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, shared an intimacy beyond a simple friendship. Within the novel, Dick and Perry display very traditional male and female gender roles. Upon introducing Perry, he is seen with “a guitar, and…

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    The way Capote writes In Cold Blood, the lives of the murderers seen more important than the victim's. By the end of the novel, the reader knows more about Dick and Perry than any of the Clutters. Very few details are given about the lives of the Clutters, whereas Dick and Perry's lives are clearly displayed for the reader. In a sense, Dick and Perry get more "screentime" than the Clutters do which leaves the reader to grow emotionally closer to the murderers. Generally, authors who write about…

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    health. Limiting Dr. Jones’ responses to Logan Green’s (Prosecuting attorney) questions to either a yes or a no. While some of these things (limiting Dr. Jones’s responses and changing of venue) are technically at the Judge Tate’s discretions under Kansas’ state laws, I feel like under normal circumstances the defense attorney’s wishes would have been granted , the juror would not have been selected, and Dr. Jones would have been allowed to elaborate on Dick and Perry psychological health.…

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    and also despairing. The Ashidas were part of the Holcomb community everyone appreciated—a family likably high-spirited, yet hard-working and neighborly and generous, though they didn't have much to be generous with.” (Capote, 116) The Ashida family, as stated above, was a very well liked family. Mrs. Hartman was reacting to the news that the Ashida family was moving away. The fact that everybody knows everybody in the close-knit town of Holcomb makes the move even more difficult. Friends are an…

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    Violence in Schools One might think of violence as something that involves loud sounds, heart wrenching tales, and disturbing pictures. On the other hand, violence is reality. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is a novel describing the horrific night where a family was murdered and the after effects on the small town community. Although violence is prominent in the book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, the raw emotions displayed through the novel gives high school honor level students the exposure…

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