In the creative non-fiction story, In Cold Blood, Capote includes details and structures the passages in a way that seems to suggest the Clutters were pre-destined to die. Capote uses a fatalistic perspective to make the Clutters situation seem like fate or destiny. Capote includes clues, which foreshadow or hint to the reader the sequence of events. For example, Capote includes details about how Mr. Clutter signed up for life insurance the day before the family is killed and Bonnie’s bookmark in the Bible, the night the murder occurred, was a quote warning the person reading the message to take heed that something bad was going to happen. In addition, Kenyon, the night of the murder, was putting together a big wooden box, resembling a coffin. All these details, along with many others in the story, suggest that the events in Holcomb were results of fate. This fate plays into the re-occurring idea that murder is incomprehensible. There is no earthly motive behind the killer’s actions. There is no reason. It is inexplicable and the only understandable answer is fate.
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