In Cold Blood Character Analysis
Cortney Anderson
Michael Thornton
American Lit.
3 December 2014
Paired Novel Assignment 1 The Novel In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is a well-written creative non-fiction book about a true murder case of the Clutter family. The novel touches upon the American values in the way that the American dream is fairly recurrent in the main characters. He explores social conflicts between the murder suspects and the law, how the murder is causing an effect on the close net community it’s set in, nature vs. nurture in the since that if Dick and Perry, the murder suspects, were raised differently that maybe they wouldn’t have grown to become murderers. The main characters, the murder suspects, are constantly in search of the American dream and the deaths …show more content…
The most obvious conflict would be between the Clutter family and Dick and Perry. There is also a social conflict between the townspeople because now they do not trust each other. In the book Capote writes, “They shared a doom in which virtue was no defense.” This quote goes to show just how shook up the town is. Perry has an internal conflict he is dealing with. He believes in fate and that he cannot escape it but it’s an issue because he feels that he has no control over his life. In a response to a letter Barbara sends him we writes, “Because one thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won’t. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it’s bad, what can you do? You can’t stop living.” This quote shows that Perry feels that he has no control over his life and thus he has a conflict with himself. This book has major American values and social conflicts that many can still relate to today. Overall the book was a great read and was very interesting to know that it is a true story and seeing how Capote interpreted it was nice. The modern time fame provides an interesting style that occurs in the book as
Michael Thornton
American Lit.
3 December 2014
Paired Novel Assignment 1 The Novel In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is a well-written creative non-fiction book about a true murder case of the Clutter family. The novel touches upon the American values in the way that the American dream is fairly recurrent in the main characters. He explores social conflicts between the murder suspects and the law, how the murder is causing an effect on the close net community it’s set in, nature vs. nurture in the since that if Dick and Perry, the murder suspects, were raised differently that maybe they wouldn’t have grown to become murderers. The main characters, the murder suspects, are constantly in search of the American dream and the deaths …show more content…
The most obvious conflict would be between the Clutter family and Dick and Perry. There is also a social conflict between the townspeople because now they do not trust each other. In the book Capote writes, “They shared a doom in which virtue was no defense.” This quote goes to show just how shook up the town is. Perry has an internal conflict he is dealing with. He believes in fate and that he cannot escape it but it’s an issue because he feels that he has no control over his life. In a response to a letter Barbara sends him we writes, “Because one thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won’t. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it’s bad, what can you do? You can’t stop living.” This quote shows that Perry feels that he has no control over his life and thus he has a conflict with himself. This book has major American values and social conflicts that many can still relate to today. Overall the book was a great read and was very interesting to know that it is a true story and seeing how Capote interpreted it was nice. The modern time fame provides an interesting style that occurs in the book as