In Cold Blood

In In Cold Blood, Truman Capote and Perry Edward Smith share a complex relationship marked by empathy and understanding. Capote sees parts of himself in Smith, particularly their traumatic childhoods...

Capote's view on the death penalty is critical, as he implicitly disapproves of it by humanizing the murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, highlighting their traumatic pasts and the unfairness of...

Capote shows bias towards Perry Smith by portraying him as a vulnerable and sympathetic character, in contrast to Dick Hickock, who is depicted as the cold-blooded mastermind. Capote emphasizes...

The title In Cold Blood by Truman Capote signifies the calculated and emotionless nature of the Clutter family murders, which were planned and executed without remorse by Dick Hickock and Perry...

The letters of Perry Smith’s father, sister, and former fellow prisoner are authentic.

Truman Capote's opinion of Dick Hickock is that he is crude, unrefined and utterly amoral.

Capote's use of rhetorical strategies in In Cold Blood are, in some ways, hard to pin down. Partly this is because Capote was pioneering a new form of writing: the non-fiction novel. As such, Capote...

An example of historiographic metafiction in In Cold Blood is Truman Capote's sympathetic portrayal of the murderers, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. While the book is based on true events, Capote...

In Cold Blood is a creative work that uses imaginative description and dialogue to create a new type of reporting.