Marina Dart 10/03/2012 Period 4 HL English Family in In Cold Blood: IOP Essay In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is a nonfiction novel that documents the murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb‚ Kansas. It then follows the investigation of the crime as well as the murderers as they attempt to flee the country‚ are caught‚ and eventually as they are executed for their crimes. In the book‚ Capote purposely twists and destroys the idea of family by exaggerating all negative aspects of every healthy family
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take to do something like that?” Truman Capote’s book‚ In Cold Blood‚ is about such an act of violence; a murder that‚ when the reader walks away‚ only registers a banal. The killing of the Clutter family‚ which happened in 1959 in the town of Holcomb‚ Kansas‚ blew most people away with its senselessness and horror. Capote‚ however‚ writes the story with personal background on the killers‚ making them human and giving the reader‚ something most people do not get to hear or even care to know‚ a reason
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“The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas‚ a lonesome area that other Kansans call ‘out there.’ . . .The land is flat‚ the views are awesomely extensive; horses‚ herds of cattle‚ a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them.” pg. 3 The book begins and ends with descriptions of the landscape; the serenity of the plains is an unlikely setting for a tragedy‚ which makes it all the more disturbing
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In Cold Blood Essay In Cold Blood written by Truman Capote is novel were most of the readers that read the book‚ have to think more than enjoy. The novel is about a murder of four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb‚ Kansas who were murdered by two men‚ which go by the names of Perry Smith and Dick Hickok. Throughout the novel Capote builds a relationship with one of the murderers‚ Perry Smith. The way Capote structured his book was that every chapter had a different character point of view
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of view and overly dramatic word choice which inhibits readers from developing their own opinions and knowing what truly happened that one fateful night in which “four shotgun blasts‚ all told‚ ended six human lives” (5). Capote criticizes Holcomb‚ Kansas and it’s inhabitants so badly that you walk away with the feeling that it is a podunk town full of idiots.
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At What Cost? “No one will ever know what In Cold Blood took out of me‚” Capote once said. “It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think‚ in a way‚ it did kill me.” Truman Capote learned his own hard lesson that “More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones” in writing In Cold Blood. Capote’s interest in writing an article on his fascination over the impact of brutal‚ senseless murders in a rural community rapidly transforms into pure
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Cortney Anderson Michael Thornton American Lit. 3 December 2014 Paired Novel Assignment 1 The Novel In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is a well-written creative non-fiction book about a true murder case of the Clutter family. The novel touches upon the American values in the way that the American dream is fairly recurrent in the main characters. He explores social conflicts between the murder suspects and the law‚ how the murder is causing an effect on the close net community it’s set in‚ nature vs
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acts that eventually lead them to an astonishing murder. (The Clutter Family Killings TruTv.com 1) Although the two got along at first their backgrounds were different in many ways‚ Hickock grew up with a well established family on a farm close to Kansas City. Although he was popular‚ athletic‚ and maintained a steady average his parents were unable to get him into a college on account of their financial situation even with the multiple scholarships offered to him for his athleticism. That same year
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analysis of the crime scene‚ the actual culprits of the cold‚ blooded killing were found and determined to have serious mental illness of schizophrenia and other brain injuries leading to a series of events that ended in a brutal crime. The state of Kansas lacked money to examine Dick and Perry‚ but Doctor W. Mitchell Johns volunteered his services‚ as a specialist in criminal psychology and determining criminally sane and insane. However‚ Perry felt they know they just want to be entertained and hear
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In Cold Blood-Alvin Dewey In the book‚ “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote he describes to us all the events that took place before‚ during‚ and after a murder that happened in Holcomb‚ Kansas. Mr. Clutter‚ who was the owner of River Valley Farm and husband to Bonnie Clutter‚ and the father of four children‚ two whom had survived due to them not living at the Clutter residence anymore. The fatal event of the family hit the whole town hard which led one man‚ detective Alvin Dewey‚ determined to find
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