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    Plot/Structure: From the begininng of the novel, one can already see that a murder is going to happen, for Part I is labeled as “The Last to See Them Alive.” Capote, through his vast descriptives, takes his time to get to the murder scene itself. He takes the time to describe the town of Holcomb and the Clutter family, as well as introducing the murderers themselves, before telling about the crime. Capote describes the day that the Clutters died, from the start of the day until its end in great…

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    what they are” (No Author), Truman Capote wanted to gain the the reader's pity and remorse for Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. At first, capote just wanted to tell the facts of the case to the world but he became attached to Smith. In the novel, In Cold Blood, written in 1965, Truman Capote, a well-known author, asserts that the Clutter family was murdered and that Perry Smith should have the reader's’ pity by using first hand accounts, the murder, and the murderer's story. In “The Last to See…

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    Perry Smith and Al Dewey. Perry is more than a cold-blooded killer, Al Dewey is more than a source of clues and information on a compelling murder case. Capote delves deep into the lives of both Smith and Dewey, exposing the depth and complexity of who they are. By doing this, Capote reveals the true nature of these two men, and therefore plays on the reader’s emotions, creating a sense of sympathy for these key characters in his book, In Cold Blood. Perhaps the most detailed character in…

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    Nothing in life is set in stone and nothing in life is ever promised. Life has its twists and turns, its ups and downs, and its struggle it makes people go through. In the case of Truman Capote 's true crime novel In Cold Blood, life throws a curve-ball at the seemingly tranquil, open community of Holcomb, Kansas where the murders of the Clutter family disrupts the fictitious portrayal of the town. In three distinctive parts of the novel-Part I, Part II, Part II-Capote transitions from the once…

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    Sometimes bad things happen to good people because of the wickedness of others. In Truman Capote’s novel In Cold Blood, he writes a detailed account of murderers Perry Smith and Dick Hickock that shows this type of wickedness by sharing the graphic details of the murders. Charged with murdering a family of four in cold blood with no true motive, the heartlessness and evilness of the two killers is inarguable. Truman Capote also shows their humanity, which draws sympathy from his readers.…

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    In Cold Blood recounts the story of the actual murder of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas. Taking place in 1959 the book tells of the murder of the Clutter family, Mr. and Mrs. Clutter and their two teenage kids, Kenyon and Nancy, we also get to see the events that lead the killers to commit the chilling murder. Living in Holcomb, Kansas, November of 1959, the family was brutally killed, with no apparent motive, by Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. The family was discovered bound and shot to…

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    There is evil that made its mark in 1959 when the Clutter family was murdered in their own estate. Truman Capote the author of In Cold Blood tells the story of how a loving family who did no wrong could perish so easily by men who were possessive and vicious. He wrote this book shortly after the incident and a movie was later made in 1967 to show the tragedy of the Clutter family’s death. The movie is in the perspective of the murders and has on and off scenes of the Clutter family. Though,…

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    criminal instead one thinks about the victim. There are only a few people who take the time to study the criminal in hopes of learning more about what motivated that individual to commit the crime. One such person was Truman Capote, the author of In Cold Blood, who took the time to acquaint himself with Perry Smith. Perry Smith was one of the criminals, along with Richard Hickock, charged with the murder of the Clutter family. The Clutter's murder took the whole town by surprise, however once…

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    Truman Capote 's In Cold Blood Is based on true events. On November 16, 1959, in Holcomb, Kansas four members of the clutter family, Herb, Bonnie, Nancy, and Kenyon, were found dead, bound and shot in the head with a shotgun. With no apparent motive for the crime, detectives are left almost clueless. With the help of a former cellmate of the killers, detectives were able to identify the killers as Perry Smith and Dick Hickock. Capote reconstructs the series of events leading up to and after the…

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    Although in Truman Capote’s book In Cold Blood, the author is illustrating the points of view of Holcomb, Dick, and Perry after the murder of the Clutter family, his prime motive is to exploit the devastation felt by the community; therefore, he accomplishes this by emphasizing the agony, confusion, and panic experienced by a loss. Capote uses tricolon to help convey the dark blanket of emotions that overcame Holcomb after the murders, which one can see from the perspective of Agent Alvin…

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