Week 4

[kaitlinhall]

Literary non-fiction might mean that of many different topics that can be together as one bigger topic. Many little ideas can represent one big thing that has a bigger meaning. "In Cold Blood" is very different from a regular crime book or story that you would normally see, because it has different aspects coming out of the book. It starts with the before the actual event occurred, the last day the Clutter family was seen alive, and while it was doing that you say the side of what the murders were doing that same day before they made it to the house. Then you see many sides of what is happening to both Perry and Dick as well as the agents investing the crime, you see them suffer many struggles throughout the days that were spent trying to both survive not getting caught and making their way into California and the struggle of actually finding the real killers in this case, not those that just want the reward money. Capote wanted to create something different and in the way that would keep people interested in the book as oppose to just starting out with the crime and going through a long journey to get the murders and expose them for who they are, it's the same old thing you see over and over again in a different book. Capote figured his new style would make more people want to read and learn that not everything is the same in black and white, you have to have different aspects of writing to keep it interesting. But as well as wanting to keep it interesting this was the way Capote wrote, and you could tell from the flow of the book, he was comfortable writing like the way he did. The impact that Capote puts on readers is he wants to draw them in, he leaves them wanting more. He can go into massive detail about one thing and then shorten the ideas for another that makes you want to know, what is going to happen next. His ideas were very different from any other author or write out there, he paints a picture that is never really complete, it's always getting more detail added ever time you open it. Yet nothing is ever really missing. 

[ajguth]

I think that you did a great job explaining this, Kaitlin. As you said, Capote writes in such a way that keeps the audience continously interested and wanting more. The way he builds up the details about one side, like Dick and Perry, then switches the perspective over to those in Holcomb, creates an intense feeling of suspense among the audience as we wait for him to reveal more. Additionally, Capote's style of alternating perspectives allows the audience to gain a strange connection to Dick and Perry, as well as those in Holcomb, leaving the readers befuddled as we do not know which side of the case we feel more sympathy towards.