Comments on “Cold Cuts” from Truman Capote’s novel ‘In Cold Blood’ Essay

Before commenting on the quotations from the novel I have to clarify that In Cold Blood is a fiction based on a true story. This means that the book has several documentary elements and others are fictionals. Capote had to utilise tools of writing a report, and of traditional fiction as well. As a result, sometimes it is diifficult to separate the realistic parts from the nonrealistic ones, even because of knowing the writers long investigation about the murder and its background. Telling the custom of hunters energy be a true story just the other half of the quotation is fiction, I guess. By the time of writing the novel Mr.Clutter has been dead, so Capote couldnt quote from him. But t here is a need for the time given into his mouth, because by this (Im not as poor as I look) the readre sees his figure as a very kind, nice, liberal person. So, after the murder we feel sorry for him, and its easier to understand why the villagers were so shocked because of his death. Im not su re whether this part is ture or only created by Capote but I compute its main role is to show Dicks strangeness and insensitiveness. To kill an blameless dog for no reason (I dont think that there would every be any reason to kill someone) is a metaphor of the also innocent Clutter family. I think that this story might be real because after reading the book the readre feels fear from Dick, he is so evil. But on the other hand the writer forms our opinion about the char pieceers in his novel, as wee see them the way Capote describes them. This quotation is so formal, so distanced, that it sounds a report from the news. I think that this is real and the writers aim was to make the novel much realistic. This part is real again because it only gives facts about the murderers. With the help of this we read the novel as a true story.Its well-known from rhetorics that facts are unquestionable, so they are true. This quotations is a cheeseparing example of mixing realistic and fictiona l elements, I think. The garden might have been white with sea-fog, but Mrs. Johnson can only recall what did she really think when she closed the door. I think the writer here used the literary tool of projecting a characters inner feelings onto the environment, or nature. That might also be ture in the case of the second denounce about the murderers who look like in this picture as two escaping animals. Mentioning Perrys shorter limb is again used to show that the writer felt sorry for him.In this case the type of the car can be true and even the act of stealing but on the other hand its not mentioned in this sentence, only the reader knows the next steps. In my opinion only the writer found out the contex of stealing the Chevrolet (so lighting the cigarette) and mentioning only this but not the act itself. In this description its more interesting. Showing Perrys thoughts out front being captured is again a mixture of reality and fiction. As Capote met him on the interviews and in the jail, not during the big travel, he could only collect recalled entropy which is usually a bit different from reality.Im not sure whether Perry had really thought that, so I think that the writer here projected on Perry what the villagers or the detectives thought, or wanted to believe in. The perspective is retrospective in this sentence whereas the writer puts them in a present situation. This confession-like sentence from Perry might be true bt on the other hand I think again that the write used this to create Perrys figure likeable, but on the other hand not saying that he is innocent. I think this uotation might be partly true but Im not sure that this is what Perry exactly said.