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    Perry Smith Throughout In Cold Blood the friendship of Dick Hickock and Perry Smith changes quite often. Even though the two may believe that they need each other and that they are similar in each and every way‚ they each put their own personal profit above one another whether it is for small change‚ sex‚ or even as far as death. The two may be very close to each other‚ but their self-serving personalities get the best of them every time. In In Cold Blood‚ Truman Capote evaluates the moral decline

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    In Cold Blood Theme

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    Major Themes Modern-day Mythology/Epic Storytelling In Cold Blood is crafted like a modern-day tragedy‚ on the scale of one of the Greek dramas from classical antiquity‚ and deals with many of the same universal themes: murder‚ vengeance‚ and the pursuit of justice. This‚ for Capote‚ was the power of his new literary genre‚ the nonfiction novel: to take events from the contemporary world and elevate them to epic storytelling proportions‚ enabling them to transcend their specific historical moment

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    In Cold Blood Analysis

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    Mandeep Kaur Analysis 3B The film Capote is based on the novel In Cold Blood about the murder of the Clutter family. The novel does in the depth about the charters and the plot but the movie leaves out many important details to leave the viewer’s wondering why something happened. Capote focuses on the text and characterization In Cold Blood‚ as the film Capote challenges the characterization of Perry Smith and Dick Hickock. Perry Smith was described in the novel with crucial details as in the

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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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    Essay #1 on In Cold Blood Truman Capote is able to show the reader that Dick is more than just a cold-blooded killer. Capote does this by showing the reader Dick’s “status of life” details letting the reader see that he’s just like anyone else; he has a family who worries about him‚ a hard childhood‚ and he has made some bad choices. When introduced to Dick for the first time in the book the readers see him as the bad guy; he and Perry are talking about getting the perfect score and buying equipment

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    In Cold Blood Comparison

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    story of “Notes of a Native Son” is Baldwin had been arrested in France for stealing a bed sheet. Yet Capote in “In Cold Blood” relates a story of murdering an innocent family. The one that provoked more reaction to be overall is surprisingly Baldwin’s story particularly because of the fact it’s a story of a man suffering for theft that wasn’t his fault‚ and feel his emotions. While the other story Capote tells is about two detectives hearing a man transverse entirely through his consideration of murder

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    Annotating In Cold Blood

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    In Cold Blood​  Passage Analysis  (Used with permission from Jennifer Cullen ­­ Westwood High School)    You will be assigned to a group of 2­3 members.  The group’s task will be to meaningfully  practice the skills of passage analysis‚ in preparation for a timed writing.      PART I (Homework)    A.  This is a forum to strengthen your analysis skill for the AP language Exam.  You and your  group will choose one meaningful‚ memorable passage from Sections I ‚II‚ III‚ and IV.      Each passage s

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    attraction to Miss Baker saying her voice "compelled [him] forward breathlessly as [he] listened"(18). The detail shows his immediate attraction right away and some sort of romantic chemistry between them. Chapter Two Fitzgerald uses many stylistic devices in chapter two‚ but the most dominant and important is the syntax. He opens the chapter describing the valley which is about half way between the West Egg and New York in a loose sentence. He says it’s a "valley of ashes" where they take

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    In Cold Blood Theme

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    There are many prominent themes in the novel In Cold Blood‚ and they cover a wide spectrum of topics. They include the effects (if any) caused by environment in childhood‚ how a person of any of locale can be a victim of hostility‚ and the presence of contrasting personalities. Truman Capote gives the reader a detailed account of Perry Smith’s and Dick Hickock’s childhoods. Smith’s childhood was very problematic and scarred by years of abuse. He witnessed beatings of his mother by his father;

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    Lexical stylistic devices Metaphor. Sustained metaphor O Rose‚ thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night‚ In the howling storm‚ Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy‚ And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. [William Blake “The sick rose” http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/the_sick_rose.html] novel metaphor: Time is jealous of you and wars against your lilies and your roses [Wilde O. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Penguin books. 1994. P.30] Conventional metaphor "If all the world’s

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