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Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"
Title: Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 703 | Pages: 3.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"
Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” was an easy to read; yet well written work. While I realize it is based on actual events, I agree with the term non-fiction literature because of, what I believe are obvious biases that Capote brings to the work. Unlike a historical work, “In Cold Blood” is filled with emotion and very descriptive detail instead of just the facts. In the opening paragraph of the book we read about …showed first 75 words of 703 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 703 total…does not do that and therefore again breaks away from the typical historical work. On page 57, the last paragraph, we read that Perry and Dick arrive at the Clutter ranch and the next few pages jump to the finding of the bodies. This is an effective way to capture the attention of the reader and keep them wondering and reading on to see what happened and how it happened, which is literature not strictly history.
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