1. In the novel In Cold Blood by Truman Capote‚ based on a true story‚ there is no one main character. There is actually two main characters. The two main characters are the killers of the Clutter family‚ Mr. Perry Edward Smith‚ and Mr. Richard Eugene Hickock. These two men murdered the Clutter family for some money‚ which in total was about $40. They decided to leave no witness to this gruesome crime. Mr. Perry Edward Smith is one of the main characters in this novel. One of the conflicts Smith
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Khaqhovia Lee Ms.Bolle IB English November 18‚ 2012 The Clutter’s death fades as time disperses the clouds of darkness‚ revealing winds of prosperity. Within the frigid pages of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote‚ death haunts the living as time sways through the air. A reunion between Dewey and Susan Kidwell‚ portrays the endless chain of life and death‚ as the waves of turmoil of the Clutter family’s death to the execution the murderers. Fields of wheat wave to the dead and the blue sky protecting
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Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood details the sudden‚ brutal murder of a family in the small town of Holcomb‚ Kansas. In this excerpt‚ Capote chronicles the morning after the crime. Through the use of narrative and juxtaposition‚ Capote describes the unforeseen tragic murder of the Clutter family. These techniques‚ along with the use of connotation and diction‚ emphasize the shock of the murders while providing a pathos appeal. Capote begins by explaining that “...by nine [on a Sunday morning]... [nothing
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Jazmin Castro Mrs. Clement AP Language and Composition‚ Period 7 10 April 2014 Entry 1‚ page 5 “But afterward the townspeople‚ theretofore sufficiently unfearful of each other to seldom trouble to lock their doors‚ found fantasy re-creating them over and over again—those somber explosions that stimulated fires of mistrust in the glare of which many old neighbors viewed each other strangely‚ and as strangers.” I found this quote to be a sad truth. It is
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novel In Cold Blood by Truman Capote‚ Capote offers multiple perspectives on the complex crime that is murder. The plot follows the events surrounding the murder of a family of four in Holcomb‚ Kansas‚ and the two murderers‚ Dick Hitchcock and Perry Smith. It seems impossible to understand the way a murderer thinks‚ let alone show compassion towards them; however‚ this is the purpose of Capote’s novel‚ and he does so with a masterful hand. Through the use of figurative language‚ pathos‚ and characterization
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The Clutter family – Herbert and Bonnie‚ and their teenage children‚ Nancy and Kenyon – lead a prosperous and principled life on their farm in Holcomb‚ a small rural settlement in western Kansas. They are prominent and respected members of the community‚ in both Holcomb and the neighboring Garden City‚ and Herb Clutter is known to be a generous employer. Their life is disciplined‚ but pleasant and well provided for. The narration follows the Clutters through the events of November 14th‚ 1959‚ which
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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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Representative for the Clutter’s Members of the jury‚ I am here today representing the Clutter family who on November 15‚ 1959 were brutally murdered by the two men standing before you‚ Richard Hickock and Perry Smith. This poor innocent family had never hurt a fly. They lived their ordinary‚ simple lives on their farm in Holcomb‚ Kanas. They were a very valued member of the society and this death has had a great impact on everyone in Holcomb. I can see no reason why such a kind and humble family
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is 1966 nonfiction novel that follows the Clutter killings of 1959; specifically‚ it is a novel that follows the killers of the Clutter family‚ Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Edward Smith. In writing In Cold Blood‚ Capote intended the novel to be both objective and sympathetic. To write a nonfiction novel in an objective and sympathetic manner‚ especially one concerning a topic such as murder and the death penalty‚ is no easy task. In Cold Blood was true to Capote’s
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