Post by jasper on Nov 1, 2014 17:35:01 GMT
Few trends have swept the nation like True Crime literature has. Television, movies, books, and news containing murder and revenge are one of the biggest phenomenon in out culture. This is purely due to the nature of humanity. As a species, we flock to tragedy like flies to fruit. The constant drive to be better and happier than our peers makes us seek out stories and events more tragic than those that occur to us. We need to know that people have it worse, and that our lives could always be worse. The men and women of Holcomb represented this ideal wholeheartedly. Everyone wanted to know what happened, how, why, and who. They wanted, in my own opinion, definitive evidence that at least their own hum-drum lives were better than those of the deceased Clutter family. Capote recognized this, and expertly crafted those accounts into his novel.