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    Disorder The novel “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote‚ is a nonfiction piece that pursues the Clutter family homicide in Holcomb Kansas‚ while examining and expressing the thoughts of the two murderers. One of the killers Perry Smith is described to have Antisocial Personality Disorder. Capote clearly expresses Perry’s (APD) symptoms‚ such as self appraisal‚ as well as lack of coping mechanisms‚ and impulsivity‚ characterized by his distraught childhood. Capote shows Perry Smith’s self appraisal when

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    In Cold Blood Capote had to make the good choices about the structure of the book because when In Cold Blood was first published in January 1966‚ Hickok and Smith had been dead for less than a year. The murder and trial had hit the headlines‚ and many readers probably knew the details of the novel before they began reading it. Capote had to make it interesting even to people who knew the outcome--the book had to be good literature as well as be informative and accurate. Capote chose a starting

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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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    One of of Truman Capote’s most dynamic works‚ Breakfast at Tiffany’s‚ tells of the frustrating yet interesting life of young beautiful girl living in New York named Holly Golightly. Capote shows the immoral and somewhat reckless lifestyle of the New York upper class and the high society during the 1940’s and one girl’s attempt to take part in all of its glamour encompasses the evident need to “fit in” named Holly. Holly‚ originally an orphaned child bride named Lula Mae in a small town in Texas

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    interested in reading a disturbingly detailed and factually based novel that chronicles the course and motives of complex crime‚ read Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences.” If one scares easily‚ is squeamish or wants to avoid imagining a remorseless‚ brutal killer around every corner‚ do not. In his 1965 nonfiction novel‚ Capote paints a disturbingly vivid picture of the quadruple murder of the Clutters‚ a highly regarded and semi-wealthy farming family

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    Every story needs to have original characters and an original storyboard. That’s not what Truman Capote and John Steinbeck thought. Capote and Steinbeck both portrayed two characters that have more similarities to each other than differences. They describe a tall and masculine fellow who follows the orders of their smaller and more bright individual. The perception is that Capote created these characters but his novel‚ “In Cold Blood‚” the character’s Perry Edwards Smith and Richard (Dick) Eugene

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    An Introduction to To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird‚ written by Harper Lee in 1960‚ has become one of the most significant classic books in American Literature. The book starts with Scout being in adult‚ looking back to her life: her father‚ Atticus and his trial‚ her brother Jem‚ and her strange‚ mistaken neighbor‚ “Boo” Radley. To Kill a Mockingbird contains two plots that tie together at the end. The first plot is the story about her weird neighbor‚ Boo‚ who is believed to be bullied

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    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 of Hickock and Smith’s relationship through their delinquent 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

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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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    family is link to our past‚ bridge to our future” (Alex Haley). Believe it or not‚ family has a major impact on one’s life. The integrity of family governs the ability of an individual to stand up against the world. In the novel‚ In Cold Blood‚ Truman Capote presents the effects of the integrity of family. Within the book‚ the strength of family stems from financial stability and other factors. In the book‚ the characters Nancy and Perry were both shaped by their families. Nancy’s family provided love

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