In Cold Blood Essay
A murderer or mentally ill?
In Cold Blood, a novel based on a true account of a multiple murder written by Truman Capote is an outstanding masterpiece. This is novel is about the murder of the Clutter family in a small town called Holocomb, Kansas. However, Capote has focused more on the murderers - Perry Smith nad Richard Hickock - ratehr than the family murdered. In majority of this novel, Capote has persuasively justified Perry smith while presenting Richard Hickock as a selfish and cold hearted person.
Capote defends Perry throught the whole novel only becuase he felt a connection with Perry since both of them had a similar family problems. Both are from a disfunctional family, both have divorced parents and were also neglected by their parents. In this novel, Capote has breifly described Perry's childhood pointing out the hardships and problems Perry has been through. As growing up, Perry has multiple times viewed his mom being beaten by his dad. Since his parents were divorced Perry had to live in an orphanage for a while. Capote told about Perry's experience in the orphanage as if he was trying to gain reader's sympathy for Perry. As written in the book, Perry was often beaten by the nuns for "wetting his bed" in the orphanage. Due to Perry's urinating problem once a nun had put him in a tub filled with ice cold water. After his experience in the orphanage Perry said, "which is one reason as I have an aversion to nuns. And God. And Religion. But later on I found there are people even more evil(154)." According to Capote, the beginning of Perry's mental illness is from here.
Perry had a disfunctional family which became the main cause of Perry's life problems. Capote has mentioned Perry's family multiples times in the book but only to hold them account for Perry's problems. The main problem in Perry's family which Capote outlined is his borther's and sister's death. "Fern, jumped out of a window of a San Francisco hotel. Jimmy, who had one day
In Cold Blood, a novel based on a true account of a multiple murder written by Truman Capote is an outstanding masterpiece. This is novel is about the murder of the Clutter family in a small town called Holocomb, Kansas. However, Capote has focused more on the murderers - Perry Smith nad Richard Hickock - ratehr than the family murdered. In majority of this novel, Capote has persuasively justified Perry smith while presenting Richard Hickock as a selfish and cold hearted person.
Capote defends Perry throught the whole novel only becuase he felt a connection with Perry since both of them had a similar family problems. Both are from a disfunctional family, both have divorced parents and were also neglected by their parents. In this novel, Capote has breifly described Perry's childhood pointing out the hardships and problems Perry has been through. As growing up, Perry has multiple times viewed his mom being beaten by his dad. Since his parents were divorced Perry had to live in an orphanage for a while. Capote told about Perry's experience in the orphanage as if he was trying to gain reader's sympathy for Perry. As written in the book, Perry was often beaten by the nuns for "wetting his bed" in the orphanage. Due to Perry's urinating problem once a nun had put him in a tub filled with ice cold water. After his experience in the orphanage Perry said, "which is one reason as I have an aversion to nuns. And God. And Religion. But later on I found there are people even more evil(154)." According to Capote, the beginning of Perry's mental illness is from here.
Perry had a disfunctional family which became the main cause of Perry's life problems. Capote has mentioned Perry's family multiples times in the book but only to hold them account for Perry's problems. The main problem in Perry's family which Capote outlined is his borther's and sister's death. "Fern, jumped out of a window of a San Francisco hotel. Jimmy, who had one day