Post by madalynwiefering on Nov 18, 2014 2:45:26 GMT
In normal non-fiction reports on events such as murders, authors merely state the facts. The reader gains no sense of intimacy rather than the expected sympathetic attitude towards the event. Truman Capote's telling of the non-fiction murder goes deeper than just a sense of sympathy. Capote, although already informed the audience of the outcome, makes the reader feel nervous and anxious with suspenseful imagery and telling it as an intimate story rather than just a statement of facts. He also develops the characters (especially the murderer Perry), so that the reader would almost feel an uncomfortable amount of empathy for the man that killed an entire family. Also, Capote rights from a subjective point of view to allow the reader to feel more intimate with the characters. The reader can understand each characters' personality and the relationships they have/had so that they reach a level of intimacy only reachable by literary characterization. At the end of this section, the reader finds out about Dick's true personality when he tries to pin everything on his partner Perry. The reader feels strangely sympathetic toward Perry and allows them to feel a stronger sense of suspense and anticipation.