Summary In Truman Capote's In Cold Blood?

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Some critics would say authors use other people 's life stories to gain a profit for their own greed, others would say authors are just trying to make their story known to the public so they could be helped or put to ease. In this case in the novel “In Cold Blood” written by Truman Capote, Capote tries to create public awareness of two killers’ Dick Hickock and Perry Smith and how they were ended all by the end of a noose. The novel is based on a true crime, published in January 1966 by Random House, listed to be around $12 for a paper cover copy. The novel details the murder of the Clutter family in 1959 Holcomb Kansas, and how their murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith almost but didn’t get away with it. Capote writes about the two killers
Capote strays back and forth from present day Holcomb in 1959, to the day-to-day life on the road in Perry and Dicks point of view. The way Capote goes back and forth in his novel give an insight into the lives of not only the Clutter family but the true behind the scenes of the murders Perry and Dick, who in themselves have issues of abandonment and mental illness in their pasts. The novel is nonfictional, but “In Cold Blood 's” credibility is not what it is said to be. The famed author “didn’t tell the truth,” KBI detective Harold Nye told George Plimpton (Plimpton). Thus his truthful non-fiction story doesn’t hold a hundred percent truth. With Capote 's manipulation, he helps himself create a tantalizing story out of a tragedy that people who were affected must watch him profit from. Capote himself admits to George Plimpton who is writing “A Story About a nonfiction Novel,” when he asks “if he is particularly interested in this crime?” Capote replies “No, not really;” therefore, Capote never really cared for Perry and Dick and whether they lived or died, he was more interested in finding out the story so he could make his compelling

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