Summary Of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

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In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood is a suspenseful novel written by Truman Capote and based on a horrific true story. Herbert Clutter and his family were well known in their small town of Holcomb Kansas. Everyone in the town of Holcomb was aware that Herbert Clutter was a pretty wealthy man, however no one begrudged him due to his kindheartedness. Mr. Clutter was a popular farmer and treated his workers very well. The Clutter household consisted of Herbert, Bonnie, Nancy, and Kenyon Clutter. The Clutter’s also had two older daughters that were away at college during this time.
Dick Hickock and Perry Smith were both in prison when they spoke with Floyd Wells. Floyd Wells used to work for Mr. Clutter. He informed Dick and Perry of Mr. Clutter and his wealth. The two men began asking suspicious questions about the Clutter family. Once they were informed of Mr. Clutter’s wealth they were determined to get their hands on the cash. …show more content…
Once they entered the Clutter home they began to search for the safe Mr. Wells had mentioned at the prison. They soon realized that the house contained no safe and no money at all. Hickock and Perry searched recklessly through the home. Mr. Clutter woke up from all the noise and confusedly confronted the two men. Mr. Clutter gave them the little cash he had on him and explained to Dick and Perry that was all the money he had on him. The two men refused to believe Mr. Clutter and began to get angry. The two men destroyed the house and obtained at most fifty

Summary Of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood, written by Truman Capote, presents a picture of the town of Holcomb, Kansas. Through detached tone, Capote’s view of Holcomb portrays small town life as dull and ordinary, cold and unemotional, its name, boring and uninteresting. This view is developed through the author’s tone and selection of detail.His tone and selection of detail creates a distant and detached picture of this desolate farm community thus showing this type of crime could occur anywhere. Most readers would be inclined…

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Summary Of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

In an excerpt from the opening of In Cold Blood, author Truman Capote starts out describing the small, Kansas village of Holcomb. The village seems almost ghost-like, abandoned and quiet with chipped and rusty buildings that show age and reflect the good times back in the day. Capote goes on to not only describe the “boring”, lonely side, but he then captures the more civilized side, mentioning the school where all the money goes and vaguely describing the people that live in this town. Capote…

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Summary Of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

people in books and in real-life. A book that fits into this example is Truman Capote's In Cold Blood because it is based off of a real tragedy. Many pieces of literature demonstrate that bad things can happen to good people, even people who try to do the right thing; this is proven through Lennie from John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Clarisse from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, and the Clutter Family from Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. Lennie is one of the main characters from John Steinbeck’s…

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Perry In Cold Blood Analysis

Capote’s Humanization of Perry in Part II of In Cold Blood In the Part II of his nonfiction novel, In Cold Blood, Truman Capote describes Perry, one of the men who killed the Clutter family, and his belief that since he and Dick killed an entire family, something must be wrong with them, while Dick only sees something wrong with Perry. Capote’s purpose in this passage is to humanize Perry in order to enable the reader to better relate to Perry as well as to build additional suspense concerning the…

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