Stereotypes In Cold Blood

Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" is the story of Perry and Dick and the night of November 15, 1959. This investigative, fast-paced and straightforward documentary provides a commentary on the nature of American violence and examines the details of  the motiveless murders of four members of the Clutter family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers.

This all comes down to the conclusion that maybe, If Perry would have lived a better life and more care was given to him from his parents and his parents more responsible and a bit

The danger of a single story is that they let the powerful downgrade the weaker because they create stereotypes, they can hurt the people, and no one gets represented from the culture.

Set in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, In Cold Blood recounts the real-life murder of the Clutter family, following the last moments of the four victims, investigation, court and trial, and the execution of the two convicted, Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene Hickock.

Although Perry is the one who killed the family, Dick plans the crime with ease due to his evil characteristics and guilt free conscious, therefore vulnerability can easily be molded by manipulation.

Crime and glimpses into the heads of criminal masterminds has always been something that fascinates people. Although crime is a terrible thing, the complexity and intricacy of it is something that people love to hear about. One can turn on the news at any given time and almost certainly hear an account of some form of a crime within ten minutes. In the novel In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, an account to a perplexing crime is taken to a whole new level. The Clutter family was a charming family of four that lived in the little town of Holcomb, Kansas. They were brutally murdered with no apparent motive by Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, two men that had

I did not sympathize with Dick very much, he seemed harsher, and every action he made was to benefit himself and hopefully to obtain a sexual relationship with the encounter. He lusted after female children, which reveals his pedophilic tendencies. The reveal of those tendencies had me picture him as more of a sex crazed lunatic. Perry seemed gentler (until the big reveal of him being the actual murderer). He felt disturbed over Dick’s lack of sexual control, and he was suicidal. I did feel sympathetic for Perry the majority of the

Truman Capote starts off his true crime book, In Cold Blood with “Not a soul in sleeping Holcomb heard-four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives”(Capote 5). This book examines the case of the Holcomb family that was brutally murdered. Two themes that become apparent throughout this case while reading In Cold Blood is good vs. evil and also how tragedy affects the innocent because of the guilty. These are both caused by the decisions that Perry Smith and Dick Hickock make that effect the good Clutter family.

Although Capote constructs Holcomb as an idyllic, blissful place, there is a shift from the safe, untroubled town to a paranoid untrusting society; therefore, conveying the idea that events such as murders can disrupt even the most serene of places.

In part one of the novel, Perry is shown be a short, disproportionate man with hopes of a better life somewhere else. On the other hand, Dick is portrayed as man who is impulsive, narrow minded and sexually deviant. Dick desires material things such as money, and sex. The novel depict dick as, “very literal-minded, very, he had no understanding of music, poetry” (Capote 16). Perry is the complete opposite of Dick and has no inclination for Dicks material wants. All Perry desires is a place to “shed your clothes, put on a relaxed grin, live like a Rajah” (Capote 14). Capotes depiction of the two characters are very different, and likely skewed from the truth. After all, Perry was the one who murdered the entire Clutter family.

Truman Capote's non-fiction novel, In Cold Blood, relates the murders of the small Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas in 1959, the sand and harsh lives of the fugitive killers, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, and their persecutors. Capote awakens multiple emotions throughout the novel on the reader, leaving a thirst for justice and a heavy stomach due to the accuracy of the story, but mainly achieves this by using concrete, evocative techniques, such as the juxtaposing of chapters that foreshadows events and contrast the characters' personalities and motivations, creating an even more emotional impact on the reader.

Throughout Southern literature, the authors of Southern text use religion to convey emotion through grotesque-life changing events and concepts. An article titled “Flannery O’Connor’s Rage of Vision”, by Claire Katz discusses how O’Connor’s literature feature religion and Christianity to throughout the literature. The author states, “Since O’Connor had identified her theme as Christian, it is no surprise to find critics discussing this prototypical pattern in religious terms; the protagonist is humiliated in order to recognize his state of sin, and is thus open to grace and redemption.”(55) Therefore, this essay will examine and explain the abstract Christian components illustrated among multiple texts written by Flannery O’Connor and provide textual evidence to support the abstract findings from within the texts.

The novel In Cold Blood, written by Truman Capote, is a nonfiction novel in which Capote records the aftermath of the 1959 Clutter family murders and the lives of their killers. The tragic murders of the Clutter family devastate their small farm hometown of Holcomb, Kansas. In Cold Blood is composed of testimonies, official documents, source information, and follows the lives of the four Clutter family members and their killers from beginning to very end.

The nonfiction novel, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote takes place in the small and quiet town of Holcomb, Kansas. Capote takes the reader through the sequence of events that transpired before, during, and after the Clutter family was murdered on November 15, 1959. He describes in detail the background of each of the main characters. This helps to clarify the motives of Richard Hickock and Perry Smith as they murder the Clutters. He illustrates how a positive or negative influence of a person’s environment, lifestyle, and sometimes family can impact them into adulthood. These influences can cause a person to become a contributing member of society or make them turn to a life of crime, this is depicted by Capote through the Clutters, Richard Hickock,

True Blood is a television series dealing with vampirism that is aimed at an adult audience, which goes against stereotypical gender representations, especially those of women. Over the past forty years Feminism has been a recognised social philosophy amongst the thinking classes. However the media has remained male dominated throughout the years. ‘The Writer's Guild of America claims that 19% of television writers it represents are female.’