In Cold Blood: Characterization of Hickock and Smith Open up a copy of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote and you will find an array of beautiful and poetic language that makes this novel nothing short of a masterpiece. Effective characterization is a key element; and it is through the use of diction and syntax that Capote characterizes Dick Hickock and Perry Smith in such a way that the latter is given the greater amount sympathy than the former. His purpose in doing so is to provide a strong case
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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 to the mindless murders. Evil is easily banalized when there is a
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Character Development: Techniques Truman Capote used several techniques to develop the characterization of the killers in his book‚ In Cold Blood. But primarily‚ Truman Capote uses anecdotes to describe the characters of Dick and Perry. An anecdote being‚ “a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.” He does this by describing their child lives‚ and how they became who they are in the present. An example of how Capote described the character of Perry is: “ He was
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September 28‚ 2011 AP Composition In Cold Blood Assignment Word Count: 997 Truman Capote wrote the book‚ In Cold Blood‚ in order to inform the world about the true story of the Clutter family. However‚ no one expected the book to be extraordinarily written. Capote used a technique for his book that no other writer had thought of doing before. In the time the book was written‚ everyone was sure of Capote’s soon to be literary fame and success from this book. In Cold Blood is a unique‚ one of
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of the Romantic Movement. And an extract from chapter 3 of In Cold Blood (ICB) by Truman Capote‚ a faction novel (a novel written based on facts). In the F.S extract we are seeing the creature’s view of his killing of William and also his framing of Justine for the murder. Much the same in the ICB extract where it is Perry’s point of view of the murder of the Clutter family. In this extract we also see Capote input thoughts from Dewey‚ the police officer covering the case. Although both the extracts
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Murder. Senseless. Punishment. Truman Capote and Traciy Reyes both found ways to make their works story-like and suspenseful. Shifts in perspective and scenes with foreshadowing are the main ways in which these authors attempt to turn the events of a crime into a story with suspense. In the novel‚ In Cold Blood‚ by Truman Capote‚ the author uses alternating perspectives coupled with a lot of foreshadowing to reveal the story behind a crime; whereas‚ the author of the article Michelle Mason‚ Anthony
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Where the people think ‘nothing bad will happen in our little town!’. Four gunshots and six lives is what it took to change everything they once knew. American author Truman Capote captures this in his novel “In Cold Blood” by telling the story of the heartbreaking murder of the Clutter family and their murderers. Capote does this by using foreshadowing(3)‚ dramatic irony(2)‚ diction(1)‚ nostalgia(5)‚ suspense(6)‚ and different perspectives(4) to convey how there will always be multiple sides
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abominable days. Having a mother “’Entertaining’ some sailors” while his father was away‚ than father comes back “Struggle‚ threw the sailors out and proceeded to beat mother” (Capote 265). Eventually he lost both of his parents during his childhood‚ “It wasn’t any gallon of ice-cream” as in a way of life for him (Capote 127). He was a great football player during high school and had physically strong and muscular upper body‚ but he had short and weak legs because of the motorcycle accident. Also
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He had a brain explosion."); (e.g.‚ "... the victims might as well have been killed by lightning."). In foreshadowing Nancy Clutter’s demise‚ Capote wrote of "... the dress in which she was to be buried" In telling Perry Smith’s story‚ Capote often relied on flashbacks to his childhood to try to understand what may have led to the grisly murders years later: "... a final battle between the parents‚ a terrifying contest in which horsewhips
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sympathy and compassion towards his characters shows how involved he is in his subjects. Capote’s writing style in the book In Cold Blood is very straightforward. He writes from an omniscient point of view. In preparing to write In Cold Blood‚ Mr. Capote lived in the town for five years. In the course of that time‚ he interviewed everyone including the two murders Dick and Perry. H had taken over 6‚000 pages of notes. Each scene in the book is climatic like a movie (Kazin). They go back and forth
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