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    In Cold Blood Essay (Question 3) In the novel In Cold Blood‚ Truman Capote portrays Perry Smith as both a victim and a hero in order to make the reader connect more sympathetically with Smith‚ thus making him the protagonist of the text. Protagonists are generally the character with whom readers sense the author has the most sympathy. Throughout the text Smith is constantly portrayed as the victim. In the first introduction regarding Smith describing his physical appearance prior to the murders

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    * Social questions - Of or relating to society or its organization: "alcoholism is a major social problem" IN COLD BL00D- Why students should read it? * Book represents and informs and teaches the class about a new form of writing style in which incorporates journalism and fiction together. * Allows students to form their own opinions * Its superbly written (Truman capote on of the greatest writers of all time*) * Provides a non-fiction novel genre * The book provides powerful

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    2012/10/17 Same but different Cold Blood While the flow of the murdering story itself‚ one of the most interesting and important facts in the novel In Cold Blood is the characterization of Dick and Perry‚ the murderers. They are both demonstrated as cold blooded‚ but as the story come into possession of gleaning Dick’s and Perry’s background personality‚ it becomes conspicuous that Dick is mentally and emotionally cold blooded while Perry is physically cold blooded. They were both erroneous

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    In Cold Blood; a wonderful mystery novel written by Truman Capote that incorporates mind-boggling suspense and brutal detailing‚ I believe he did achieve his goal to be both objective and sympathetic. Capote gave not only the detailed account of Perry Smith ’s and Dick Hickock ’s childhoods but also the murder of the Clutter family. Smith ’s childhood was very problematic and scarred by years of abuse‚ making us feel as if he committed the murder because of his sorrow past. “Perry had on several

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    In the non-fiction novel In Cold Blood‚ Truman Capote (1965) gives his own narrative of the Holcomb tragedy in which a family of four living out on a secluded farm were slaughtered with a shotgun by the collaboration of two individuals for a seemingly few dollars. In this novel‚ Capote gives a thorough character description of the two murderers‚ Richard Hickock and Perry Smith‚ as he recreates their experience (much as he sees it as it would be from their eyes). He gives accounts preceding the event

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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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    have done. Throughout his novel‚ In Cold BloodCapote tells the reader of Perry Smith’s past to make the reader feel sorry for Perry‚ as is evident in the following discussion. To better understand how the author conveyed this‚ one must examine Perry’s dream‚ his life in the Detention Home‚ and his relationship with this father and his mother. People can learn a lot about a person by simply looking at what someone’s dreams consist of. In‚ In Cold BloodCapote tells the reader about Perry’s dream

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    In Cold Blood The town of Holcomb is the perfect place to set the stage for murder. In the opening of “In Cold Blood”‚ Truman Capote paints a picture of Holcomb that is nothing more than a dull‚ boring‚ and desolate small town. He develops his view thought specific detail selection which depicts visual imagery‚ a detached and repetitious tone‚ accompanied with a specialized sentence structure. In a town that is as dreary as Holcomb‚ no one would ever expect a quadruple murder. Through his details

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    one how they achieve this dream. Most individuals who grow up in a well mannered home develop become very success and other may acheive what they want through a life of crime. In Truman Capote’s novel‚ In Cold Blood‚ the role of Richard “Dick” Hickock as an iconic character provides In Cold Blood with a more dramatic and artificial story line‚ that supports the overall theme of living the “American Dream.”       Richard Hickock‚ better known as Dick‚ was portrayed as the mastermind of everything

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    LEXICAL STYLISTIC DEVICES Metaphor Genuine metaphors Trite(dead) metaphors Metonymy Metonymy Metonymy is the substitution of one word for another with which it is associated: ‘The White House said…’ (the American government) ; the press (newspapers and magazines); the cradle(infancy‚ place of origin);the grave(death); The hall applauded; The marble spoke; The kettle is boiling; I am fond of Agatha Christie; We didn’t speak because there were ears all around us; He was about a sentence away from

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