In Cold Blood Criticism

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In a way In Cold Blood is like a fiction book. Just the way Capote writes about what happens, its like all of this he just made up. He choose a murder case that happened in 1959 to write about and not many people now a days would even know about it or remember it. Most likely people in Kansas today wouldn’t even know about this case even if it was a big deal, in 1959. Plus people on the East and West Coast probably didn’t hear about it for a while because it happened in Kansas it would have taken forever to get the word to Oklahoma. Another way this novel could be a fiction book is how the murderers got away with something like this for so long before the police finally caught them. Seriously who has heard of somebody who just walks away without leaving anything that the police can trace, and they drove to their home town, stayed there for a day or two and then went to go live down in Mexico far far from Kansas.…show more content…
Capote is after all a journalist. He gathered 8000 pages of research before writing this novel. Those pages included interviews with Perry, Dick, Perry sister, and the KBI, as well as the confession of Dick and Perry. In the novel it gives all the details of what Dick and Perry do down in Mexico, Dick passing hot checks, the interviews the KBI agents did, and the execution from Alvin Dewey’s perspective. This novel feels like many weeks worth of a journalists’ research printed in a newspaper before putting together into a novel. The journalist starts with a normal day for the Clutter family and then the preparations of the murder, then the murder its self, next Dick and Perry are in Mexico, eventually leading up to the capture of Dick and Perry, and finally having them executed. Capote is like an artist with his work of journalism. This to me is truly a great journalists’

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