Post by aliviasteffen on Dec 8, 2014 22:16:35 GMT
1. Do you think there is a difference between reading a true crime book and reading a violent fiction book? Do you feel different while reading one as compared to the other?
-The difference between these two is the fact that a crime book is a true story while the other is a false story. Another thing to mention, would be the difference in how the story is told, while a crime book is strictly facts with not much excitement, a violent fiction book is written in a way that it can make you feel a certain way. When there's a mix of the two, you get In Cold Blood. Capote creates a fictional feel to a true story, and you know it's true but you still get the fictional feel with how he writes the story. When I read a crime book I am not intrigued while I'm reading it, as I am with a violent fictional book. When I'm reading a fictional book, I feel as though I'm in the story with the characters and it makes me either feel bad for them or feel mad for what they've done or for what kind of person they are. And in In Cold Blood, I get that, I get almost mixed feelings for Dick and Perry. I hear the story of how they went through with the murders and what happened exactly, and I feel bad imagining what the Clutters went through and mad for what Dick and Perry have done. And in a different part, I start to feel oddly bad for Perry mostly because I could read how he didn't even want to go through with the murders but he did, and ended up on death row, it got to me when he saved Nancy from being raped by Dick (because he's got an apparently uncontrollable attraction to young girls as displayed with the girl on the beach). So I definitely do feel different when a book that's fiction, but it's got more of an effect when it's real, as with Capotes novel-like book and it's really interesting to read because it is that mix of fiction and true story.
-The difference between these two is the fact that a crime book is a true story while the other is a false story. Another thing to mention, would be the difference in how the story is told, while a crime book is strictly facts with not much excitement, a violent fiction book is written in a way that it can make you feel a certain way. When there's a mix of the two, you get In Cold Blood. Capote creates a fictional feel to a true story, and you know it's true but you still get the fictional feel with how he writes the story. When I read a crime book I am not intrigued while I'm reading it, as I am with a violent fictional book. When I'm reading a fictional book, I feel as though I'm in the story with the characters and it makes me either feel bad for them or feel mad for what they've done or for what kind of person they are. And in In Cold Blood, I get that, I get almost mixed feelings for Dick and Perry. I hear the story of how they went through with the murders and what happened exactly, and I feel bad imagining what the Clutters went through and mad for what Dick and Perry have done. And in a different part, I start to feel oddly bad for Perry mostly because I could read how he didn't even want to go through with the murders but he did, and ended up on death row, it got to me when he saved Nancy from being raped by Dick (because he's got an apparently uncontrollable attraction to young girls as displayed with the girl on the beach). So I definitely do feel different when a book that's fiction, but it's got more of an effect when it's real, as with Capotes novel-like book and it's really interesting to read because it is that mix of fiction and true story.
