Summary Of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

The In-between In an elementary curriculum, students must be able to determine the difference between a book that is fiction and a book that is non-fiction in the library. Most will tell you the gimmick, “Fiction means “fake” and non-fiction means “not fake””. While yes these kids are correct what happens when something is in-between- not fake, but not all real? The muddy water in-between is called literary non-fiction. Truman Capote brought this genre to the surface of the literary world with his 1966 novel, In Cold Blood, the followings of the aftermath of the Clutter family from Kansas. Thought the novel, Capote shows that to have a good piece of literary non-fiction, the author must have a good imagination, use a sustainable topic and heavily research their topic. Literary Non-Fiction is a type of prose that employs the literary techniques usually associated with fiction or poetry to report on persons, places, and events in the real world.
The events that are taking place may all be true, but the order in which they happened and the small details are where the author has to get creative. While staying true to the facts, Capote also has to fill in some of the blanks. In an interview about In Cold Blood conducted by George Plimpton in 1966, Capote said, “[Many in the literary world] felt that what I proposed, a narrative form that employed all the techniques of fictional art but was nevertheless immaculately factual, was little more than an literary solution for fatigued novelists suffering from ‘failure of imagination’”. Capote uses fictional elements to fill in spaces where he was missing details and because he did this so well, most are not able to tell the fact from the