Justice In Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

In the United States, there are millions of people that are in jail cells for crimes they have committed. One of the goals of prison is to provide justice for the victim’s crimes but in our prison system, this is not the case. These people face harsh punishments that only cause worse actions in the future. The theme of justice and punishment is explored by Truman Capote in the book In Cold Blood. The two criminals, Dick and Perry, are challenged by society on if they should be imprisoned or if they should be free. In Capote’s work, the use of syntax, diction, and a variety of details portray the current system of punishment as cruel and ineffective in providing justice.

"All things truly wicked start from an innocence,” states Ernest Hemingway on his view of innocence. Innocence, what every youth possesses, is more accurately described as a state of unknowing but not ignorance- which connotation suggests a blissfully positive view of the world. Most youth are protected from the harsh realities of the adult world. Therefore they are able to maintain their state of innocence. While innocence normally wanes over time, sometimes innocence can be abruptly taken away. Some of the characters in Truman Capotes In Cold Blood lost their innocence due to the traumatic events they experienced in childhood and adulthood while some had none to begin with.

For centuries, men and women have murdered each other for greed, lust, revenge, etc. However, in 1959, Truman Capote traveled to Holcomb, Kansas to discover the other side of murder. Truman Capote, author of In Cold Blood, offers a close examination of the horrid murder of the Clutter family. He explored how two men of different backgrounds, ethnicities, and personalities joined together to kill an innocent family for riches. Capote provides different points of view through each of his character’s eyes for his readers’ better understanding of the murderers. The use of juxtaposition compares and contrasts Dick to Perry, the murders. Capote succeeds with using juxtaposition to reveal the murderer's how he perceived them.

Although he saw the atrocities committed by Perry and was strongly in favor of his hanging, it “aroused another response, for Perry possessed a quality, the aura of an exiled animal, a creature walking wounded, that the detective could not disregard” (341). Capote includes this unexpected emotion to demonstrate the extreme pity a person completely against Perry could feel, which, in result, is meant to produce a greater sense of empathy for the reader, sympathizing with the detective. Sympathy can be gained toward this person who executed a happy family, proving how worthy this book is due to its life lesson.

Warning! A runaway robber has just been caught in the middle of the highway. Policemen are investigating the case and considering if they should punish the criminal or let him go. How will prison affect the person? Will he benefit from time in prison or will it only make him worse? The theme of justice and punishment is explored in real life and books. Life in prison may have some positive influences, but to a large extent it is not successful in changing someone’s mindset. In the book “In Cold Blood”, Truman Capote uses syntax,diction, and a variety of details to support the theme that justice and punishment is not effective.

In the Truman Capote’s famous novel that is non-fictional, In Cold Blood, there is a lot of support of evidence that Cold Blood prove for injustice of the trial,death penalty. The outcome of this trial would of never to be different than death. It was the worst thing ever to have heard about the Clutter family was the last family to be killed.(Capote 85) It was known that it was two men who killed the Clutter family, their names were Perry Smith and Bill Hancock, they both planned the crime scene with full intent and thoughts. Although what was told was cruel and heartbreaking,did the crime scene really have to be so cruel where the childhood and environment and situation are bad. Truman Capote expresses the the effect that the childhood

Most people would consider a novel written to be both, objective and sympathetic, nearly impossible. However, Capote could prove them wrong. He wrote In Cold Blood using a tone that successfully portrays both of these attitudes. He writes in an objective way that is more explanatory rather than judgmental, therefore unbiased. But he also looks deeper into the lives of the characters and their family histories, making the reader feel sympathy for them throughout the story.

Truman Capote’s magnum opus In Cold Blood was a revolutionary novel that tested the artistic merits of journalism. But, being a novel, it lacked the journalistic integrity of news writing and several of Capote’s own beliefs leaked through, revealing his own biases throughout the novel. Despite this however, it is also apparent that Capote maintains a measure of fairness as well by presenting thorough and accurate research that represents both sides of the story, even if he implicitly favors one side and accordingly emphasizes it more. Although Capote is clearly biased in his view that Smith and Hickock were unjustly put to death through an unfair trial, he is simultaneously fair in depicting the other side as well, despite his own personal

Capote published the novel "In Cold Blood" January of 1966, but how did he feel while writing this amazing novel. Capote's reason for writing "In Cold Blood" changed throughout the story, and here's why. While writing this book Capote went out and asked the victim's neighbors and family, even the murderers further along in the crime. The crime was committed in 1959 by two men named Perry Smith and Richard or Dick Hickock. Truman Capote had to have had many different feelings while writing this novel.

The excerpt from, In Cold Blood, written by Truman Capote, tells the story of an ominous journalist describing a soon to be tragedy struck town. Capote uses imagery, structure, and tone, to suggest calamity may strike in a ghost town.

After hearing the interactive orals, I was able to understand and interpret In Cold Blood with greater perspective than before. Although I do live in Kansas I have never heard of Holcomb. Honestly, I have never even been to any part of western Kansas in my life. Learning about the environment of a small town helped me realize why this murder affected the town and even the entire nation in such an extreme manner. In this day and age, people are constantly terrified of the people around them which is why we lock our doors every night. However, back in the 1950s and 1960s, people felt safe in their homes and especially felt safe in a small town. The murder of the Clutter family and Truman Capote’s publication of it changed the culture of the United

What is justice? In our world today, justice has endless meanings and is very controversial. It seems like such a simple question, but is it? To me, justice has a couple of different meanings, but in the end, they relate back to each other with two simple words, fairness and revenge. When it comes to justice, being punished for a crime that was committed is an acceptable definition, but it can branch out and, have many factors, like meaning satisfaction, and balancing your actions with your consequences. I believe all three definitions relate to justice, and some people may believe other things, so here’s what I think.

“This endless policy of appeal — to such a degree that a person can be eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen years under a sentence of capital punishment — it becomes, in effect, an extreme, unusual, and cruel punishment”. Truman Capote illustrate this quote about the death penalty as a whole and explains that the artistic merit and the value of it and how it can cause ineffective results and thats pointless for the matter of shake. It also doesn’t show us the bigger picture of it and rather it cause us to not think of other in need. In the fiction crime novel “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote. Capote convey the audience by his rhetorical devices in his novel in order to achieve his purpose and overall message. Capote’s writing style that he illustrates in the novel is to show that the death penalty is cruel and ineffective by the characters Richard Hickock and Perry Smith who were sentenced to the death penalty when Dick and Perry are accused and sentenced by the murder of four members of the Clutter Family. He does this by the conflict over the death penalty in which one is sentenced to death by because of their actions resulted in the action of a capital disfigurement. Capote true goals of his famous fiction crime novel “In Cold Blood” is to reach out to the audience over the insight of a criminal mind and furthers the idea of the ineffective though on the death penalty by the means of rhetorical devices corresponding imagery, tone, and Capote’s writing style.

Hello, Ms. Kidkiller, I hope this email reaches you well. Recently, I just read two very promising manuscripts that have tons of potential to sell if they were to be published. The first manuscript is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, a gripping story following two real-life serial killers before and after they murder the innocent Clutter family in Holcomb, Kanas. The manuscript’s contents are so vividly painted; it is nearly impossible to believe it isn’t the slightest bit fictitious.

Justice basically means giving each person what he or she deserves in accordance with the law as written. Justice and fairness are closely related terms and in the sense of the criminal justice system do not always go hand in hand. There are many factors which unfortunately enter into the equation once a person enters the criminal justice system.