Sunday, October 25, 2009

At the beginning of In Cold Blood, Capote talks about each member of the Clutter family. He talks mostly about Nancy Clutter who is supposedly who every girl wants to be and not much about Kenyon Clutter. He even talks about the sisters who aren’t involved in the murder more than Kenyon. Capote makes it seem that Ms. Katz telephone call is important in the story and it will be very significant to what is about to happen to the clutter family. Capote also mentions Mr. Clutter’s love for peach trees which doesn’t seem relevant at all to the plot of the story. He goes very much out of his way to tell us these things about them.
Capote talks a lot about the Clutter family rather than the killers who will be in most of the book after the terrible event takes place. He mentions the Clutter family’s likes and dislikes and talks quite a bit about their personal lives. On the other hand, he only describes Perry, he doesn’t even take the time to describe Dick. He tells us a little bit about their goals and moves on. Capote doesn’t introduce them as important characters, you just kind of assume since they have their own paragraph that they are important.

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