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In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood. By Truman Capote. Holcomb, KS November 14, 1959. The Herbert Clutter family was asleep when intruders entered. The Clutter Family:. Herbert Clutter: strong, intelligent, honest, community leader Bonnie Clutter: frail, ill, nervous, seldom left home

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In Cold Blood

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  1. In Cold Blood By Truman Capote

  2. Holcomb, KSNovember 14, 1959 • The Herbert Clutter family was asleep when intruders entered.

  3. The Clutter Family: • Herbert Clutter: strong, intelligent, honest, community leader • Bonnie Clutter: frail, ill, nervous, seldom left home • Nancy Clutter: vibrant, attractive, intelligent • Kenyon Clutter: athletic, intelligent • Bobby Rupp: Nancy’s steady boyfriend

  4. Dick Hickock: From Olathe, Kansas • Led a normal, but impoverished childhood • Married and divorced twice • Three sons • On parole/not allowed to associate with ex-cons • Tall, lean, and athletic • Blonde/blue-eyed • Facial injuries with scars from auto wreck • Blue “dot” tattoo under one eye • Many other tattoos on body • Believed information from Floyd Wells was true about the Clutter family wealth • Planned a way to rob and kill the Clutters

  5. Perry Smith: From Las Vegas, Nevada • Half American Indian • Short, dark-haired and dark-eyed • Many body tattoos • Severe leg injuries from motorcycle accident; constant pain/aspirin addict • Intelligent; large vocabulary • Talented musically and artistically • Superstitious; many phobias • Met Dick Hickock in prison • Alcoholic mother had been a rodeo trick rider • Abusive father had tried to start a tourist lodge in Alaska, before it was a state • Parents split up; Perry was placed in orphanage and abused; later lived with father off and on again

  6. Questions raised by publication of IN COLD BLOOD: What role does child abuse play in shaping an individual’s behavior? Is capital punishment (the “death penalty”) an acceptable form of punishment? Do prisons actually reform criminals?

  7. Truman Capote1924-1984 • Born: Truman Persons in New Orleans, LA • (later adopted by his mother’s second husband) • Parents split up, cared for by aunts and uncles; lived next door to Harper Lee in Alabama, who became his best friend • Felt psychologically “abandoned” by his parents. His alcoholic mother seldom visited, except to show off new boyfriends. • A strange child with a high-pitched voice, he became the model for character “Dill” in To Kill a Mockingbird. • Some literary scholars think that Capote “ghost-wrote” To Kill a Mockingbird for Harper Lee. Others argue that Lee wrote most of In Cold Blood.

  8. Capote, continued: • Attended military school and small private schools in New York when his mother remarried to “make him more masculine” • After high school, he sold stories to magazines. • Became famous because of a provocative photo in Life about new writers. • Witty, loved parties and society functions; easily became a “jet-setter.”

  9. Capote, continued: • Most famous works include: • Other Voices, Other Rooms • A Christmas Memory • Breakfast at Tiffany’s • In Cold Blood • After In Cold Blood, Capote was unable to finish any other novels. The book left him emotionally drained. • He died of drug and alcohol abuse in 1984.

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