Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Storyline review

In 1959, Truman Capote, a popular writer for The New Yorker, reads about the horrific and bloody murder of a family in Holcomb, Kansas. he is taken back by the story, which Capote and his partner, Harper Lee (the author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'), traveled the town to research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper and deeper into his article, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, the first of it's kind, a non- fiction novel, In Cold Blood.


I think that this is a phenomenal story which is fuelled by passion and desire, which is created after the killers are found. The novel change from 'Who did it?' to 'Why did they do it?". in this novel these questions are answered, one very early on ad the other near the end of the novel. Truman has to dig very deep into to Perry, who he has a connection with, to find out what made him squeeze the trigger, all four times.


This Story consumes Capote entirely, it even drives him to alcoholism, which leads him to death. The story is said to have taken seven lives, the four Clutters, the murderers and the writer.

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