What Is Truman Capote's Purpose Of In Cold Blood

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Grief, Anger, and Cynical are words to best describe the novel In Cold Blood. The author Truman Capote showed his attitude in the novel and the way he felt about the situations that occur within the book. In the book he made the reader not to judge so quickly of certain characters but to show them some sympathy and give benefit of the doubt. To have such two objectives in this type of novel would seem hard to do but not for Truman Capote, he made it happen. Put so well together that the reader doesn't notice until after the feeling has passed.
Attainable is a word to be used for how Truman Capote made the novel In Cold Blood have two objectives that would seem not to work for this type of story. The story of how an innocent family of four all came to their deaths a early Sunday morning by the hands of two men. Those two men being Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, friends that became to be as a result of sharing a cell together in Kansas State Penitentiary. Non judgmental and sympathetic were the two objectives that Capote had put into his story. The reader's thinking how is this possible, well it's all possible as long as you have an opinion that can be argued both ways. For example Capote had put into the book that some of the people agreed on the death penalty while others were the opposite. That the two men were mental and didn't know what they were doing was wrong while others felt in their gut that those two men knew what they were doing was wrong. The man
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Especially if those someones did something extremely horrible and the punishment had yet to be set. Along with what others of Kansas had partake on the situation on if these men should get the easy way out with no punishment. Cynical, that is what this crime was and always will thought of as. But there would be relief knowing that the ones who had done so are long