Compare And Contrast In Cold Blood And The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

Have you ever wanted to know the deep details of a story and how you can get more information that you would have never known? There are some novels that have a secret meaning to them such as In Cold Blood by Truman Capote and The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursala K. LeGuin. In order to get the deep secret information you have to do some criticism so you can understand it better. The main criticisms for the two novels is Psychoanalytical Criticism. Psychoanalytical Criticism is the focuses on the characters and what is going on internally and their motivations. It can also seek what is going on in the mind of the author.
In the book In Cold Blood the author is focusing on what happened in Holcomb, Kansas. This is based on a true story

where there were two convicts who murdered four members of the Clutter family with a shotgun that is held a few inches from the face in November, 1959. There was no apparent for the crime and there was almost no clues. During the scene Al Dewey, a sheriff and a special F.B.I. agent, was so obsessed with the Clutter case that he wanted to know who killed the family. As all of this is going on the whole town was scared about what happened and they wanted to know who killed them, so the killers could be punished big time. At this time the author was there during the whole scene and he gathered all the details of what happened to the family and gathered all of the information that was needed to tell the world about what the real truth of what happened to the Clutter Family. In Truman’s mind he is so sad and furiated about what happened with the family, so he goes around asking people if they know anything about the killers. Without giving up he found the right person name Willie- Jay, who was a former cellmate of Perry Smith and Dick Hickock. He gave the author all the information that he knew about the and some of the information he was given was needed for the case. The author found the parents of both killers later on and asked them some questions about their sons. They gave all the details from when they were little to when they were in high school and how bad they were and they already had a criminal case for doing something they shouldn’t have. One of the quote from the book is about the murders scene and what the killers did to the Clutter Family. “ "There's gotta be something wrong with somebody who'd do a thing like that," Perry said. "Deal me out, baby," Dick said. "I'm a normal." And Dick meant what he said. He thought himself as balanced, as sane as anyone—maybe a bit smarter than the average fellow, that's all. But Perry—there was, in Dick's opinion," something wrong" with Little Perry. (153)” In the mind of the killer they were crazy and bipolar. They took an action and did not think about the stuff that they were going to go through. But they just wanted the money ,which in that case is robbing, but they had planned to kill the Clutter family because Perry worked for Mr. Clutter in the fields and he was noisy and saw how much money Mr. Clutter had and Perry was going to get the money and also kill him because he didn’t get paid for working only 1 month as he was going to jail because of something he did wrong. So later in 1959 Perry got out of jail and had a friend name Dick that know everything about the Clutter family because Perry told him about the family and what his plan was to get the money. Also after they robbed them Perry have Dick kill them so the Clutter family does not say anything about them having a robbery. In the mind of the two killer they are just thinking about how nice the family was and how Perry was going to rape Connie Clutter and Dick stopped him from doing that because it wasn’t right to do that such a thing. Their mind was like a seesaw mean, nice, mean, nice… and this caused them to screw up their lives because the killed the clutter family.
In the story, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas the author is describing what it is like to be free and do anything you want such as: not following the rules of the house, making your own rules, drinking, doing anything you can to make you happy.

In the short story The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, the author describe the city as Joyous! meaning that the people living in the city is always happy and never gets upset or mad about anything not even the smallest thing because they get to do anything they want to to keep themselves happy and the city “flawless.” As the story going on we begin to figure out what the city is really becoming in order to keep everyone in the city happy. Like it said “ They were not simple folk, you see, though they were happy. But we do not say the word of cheer much any more. All smiles have become archaic. Given description such as this one tends to make certain assumptions” (23-5). In this quote the city has a secret that haven’t been release yet. This is letting us know that the city is becoming more and more exposed of how the city is always happy. In the author’s mind she is probably going through a tough time by holding in a secret that cannot yet be told to anyone. Also she is happy on the outside but what really counts is what is on the inside. For example, one of her friend is happy and notice that something was really wrong because she could’ve tell by the way she was acting. She notice that as the day goes by that what happened on the inside is about to come out like releasing a deep dark secret. Then her friend finally told her and it put a relief on her and her friend as well. The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas is a perfect example of depression so you can just do something just to make you happy. Later on in the story the secret was finally out of why the city was really happy. “ A child of nine or ten sits at the edge of the crowd, alone, playing the wooden flute. People pause to listen, and they smile, but they

do not speak to him, for he never ceases playing and never sees them, his dark eyes wholly rapt in the sweet, thin magic of the tune (81-4) [...] Sober-faced, the young riders stroke the horses’ necks and soothe them, whispering, ‘Quiet, quiet, there my beauty, my hope…” (88-9) [...] In a basement under one of the beautiful public buildings of Omelas, or perhaps in the cellar of one of its spacious private homes, there is a room. (94-5) [...] It could be a boy or a girl. It looks about six, but actually is nearly ten. It is feeble-minded. Perhaps it was born with defective or perhaps it has become imbecile though fear, malnutrition, and neglect” (100-2). All of this quote is about what the whole city was depended on and the secret is out. There is a child that is getting beaten up because of the people being upset about somethings and they let all the anger out on this one child which is making this child's life miserable. It says that the child had defects and that could be caused by some of the people in Omelas which makes them happy. So this is the reason why this disgusted city is always happy. After the city found out that all of the anger was let out on the child then they left without rescuing the child from its misery. But if the child is rescued then they will replace that child spot with another child so they can keep the city happy and going. The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas, this title is about how the people of the city walked away because of what the city is doing just to make someone or something happy. After the city found out that a child was being abused because everything was being put on this one child. This kind of relate to the upper classes and lower classes because the upper classes will not help the lower class back up on their feet so they can start their life over and restart to something new. In the minds of people of Omelas they are not thinking about what they are doing just to be happy instead of caring for one another. They are mean and an abuser because they took all the anger they had in their inner self and let it all out on this one lonely, sad, and desperate child.
As you do the criticism you get to learn all of the stuff that you didn’t about the book. Such as In Cold Blood and The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas you get to compare to anything that is related to it and realize that the real meaning means something else. Many authors have different mind set which make a huge different in the story after you read what is going on then you try to compare it to recent history and the meaning of it the first time means something totally different than the meaning of what it really is. Psychoanalytical Criticism is a huge thing when you are trying to find out any details that you’ve never heard or think of when you are reading the first time. When doing this hope you the details that you have been looking for for a long time.