Post by Cheyenne Lee on Nov 16, 2014 23:30:31 GMT
With this book, Truman has been credited with developing a new genre of writing: "literary non-fiction." What might that term mean, and how does In Cold Blood differ from straight crime reporting? Why did Capote create the kind of story he did, and what is its impact on the reader of this new approach?
-Literary non fiction means that the author uses the same literary techniques that any other author would use but to write about factual information on an event. In Cold Blood Capote uses literary techniques to get his point across and in straight crime reporting they just give you the straight information they don't use anything to try and convince you of something. For example he would foreshadowing in the beginning leading up to the murders like, "and that's the last time she would see Nancy." He created this type of story because I feel he wanted to set himself apart from other authors and to also to tell a story from a non bias point of view. The impact on the reader is that they don't know how to feel about the situation because of the way he's using different techniques.
-Literary non fiction means that the author uses the same literary techniques that any other author would use but to write about factual information on an event. In Cold Blood Capote uses literary techniques to get his point across and in straight crime reporting they just give you the straight information they don't use anything to try and convince you of something. For example he would foreshadowing in the beginning leading up to the murders like, "and that's the last time she would see Nancy." He created this type of story because I feel he wanted to set himself apart from other authors and to also to tell a story from a non bias point of view. The impact on the reader is that they don't know how to feel about the situation because of the way he's using different techniques.