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    In Cold Blood Do you think that every crime has to be breathtaking to attract readers` attention? Not at all. “In Cold Blood” is a non-fiction novel of 1967 by Truman Capote, where a life story of the Clutter family is told. Exactly this story of crime can make you a philosopher – while reading, you will definitely think over the tragedy and the meaning of life. The Clutters met a lot of difficulties on their way to find happiness, but were murdered because of no reason. The police was baffled, as

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    In In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, the device of juxtaposition is used to contrast the differing mental states of Dick and Perry, which is emphasized by the syntax, diction, and tone throughout the two passages. Capote uses opposing accounts of the same situation to add a deeper characterization of the two men, and to emphasize their differences psychologically. Throughout the book Capote attempts to show the true complexity of the killers, and how their backgrounds and psyches affected their actions

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    Although Truman Capote writes this narrative to tell about a murder, he must first describe and enhance the victims to elaborate on their history; therefore, Capote enhances just how senseless crimes can be. Capotes tactic is driven by his empathy towards the event of the wronging that took place at the Clutters house, he utilizes amplification to magnify how senseless the true-crime was and to describe the significance. Capote was much more focused on the development of the characters. He draws

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    In an excerpt from “In Cold Blood”, Truman Capote writes as an outside male voice irrelevant to the story, but has either visited or lived in the town of Holcomb. In this excerpt Capote utilized rhetoric to no only describe the town but also to characterize it in order to set a complete scene for the rest of the novel. Capote does this by adapting and forming diction, imagery, personification, similes, anaphora, metaphors, asyndeton, and alliteration to fully develop Holcomb not only as a town, but

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    In the story, “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote, Buddy is the main character in the story that doesn't have a real family that looks after him, except for his older cousin, who is the only person who has ever offered to foster him and who would give up everything just for him. Buddy and his older cousin have such a strong bond because they have been one another’s family for a long time, they have become best friends since they have done everything together while their other relatives have left

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    In the short story “A Christmas Story” by Truman Capote, the theme of friendship and its importance to enjoy a valuable life is key to the development of the story. In this tale, a young boy named Buddy lives with both his family, and his best friend. This best friend happens to be one of his distant sixty-year-old woman cousins. These relatives they live with treat both Buddy and his friend as if they are inferior, but “though [the rest of the family has] power over [them] and frequently [makes

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    In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Entry #1: Speaker Truman Capote is described in the biography section of the book as being born in 1924 in New Orleans. He, over his lifetime, wrote a variety of works from short stories to memoirs. In the acknowledgments, he says that the information presented in the book “is taken from official records or is the result of interviews.” He then goes on to mention some of the important people to help make the book happen like the members of Finney County, the place where

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    In Cold Blood is a book written by Truman Capote. It’s a non-fictional book written in the style of a creative fictional book. The story follows two criminals, Dick and Perry, after they’ve murdered four members of the Clutter family. The already experienced murderers make sure to leave no evidence, clues, or traces to them in the crime scene. As investigators attempt to figure out the mystery of the Clutter family murders, Dick and Perry make their way to Mexico until they get found out and get

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    heavy, complex topic. Specifically, Truman Capote investigates the American Dream through his work of creative nonfiction, In Cold Blood, which centers on the violent murder of a Kansas family in the 1950’s. After interviewing law enforcement officers,

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    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. Capote’s purpose

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