Family Ties In Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

Family ties are a considerable part of our daily lives; they determine our future and moral upbringing. If these ties are depraved, our mind may grow to be nefarious and malicious, leading to despicable actions. One example of these actions occurred in a small town in Kansas in which four members of the Clutter family were murdered. Truman Capote used this shocking event that clearly depicts how Capote’s family ties connect with the characters’ to write In Cold Blood. Capote strategically uses characterization, conflict, and tragedy to successfully build the theme of family ties while he reconstructs the murder scene.
Characterization that Capote uses in his book gives us background information about the characters, and from this information

“Mrs. Meier explained that the cats were hunting for dead birds caught in the vehicle's’ grilles. Thereafter it pained him to watch their maneuvers: “Because most of my life I’ve done what they’re doing. The equivalent” (In cold Blood 264). As Perry watches cats hunting for birds, he feels a pain in his heart since he can empathize with the cats because he also has been living off of scraps his entire life. Perry was denied an education and abused since he was small, and it hurts him to see the cats since it also reminds him of his awful father that was never there for him. While in jail, Perry pondered numerous times about his father, and how the conflict with him made him the way he was because of the lack of nurture from him. “This hitherto peaceful congregation of neighbors and old friends had suddenly to endure the unique experience of distrusting each other; understandably, they believed that the murderer was among themselves” (In Cold Blood 89). There was conflict between the people of Holcomb and the media. The people of Holcomb never worried about crime in their society; they would leave their doors unlocked every night before they went to sleep, free of worry that anything deleterious would happen to them. When the murdering of the clutters happened, they were very worried about what was going on in their society that they stopped trusting each other. It was until the detectives apprehended Dick and Perry that the people in Holcomb started to breathe calmly again. “[Dick] was holding the knife. I asked him for it, and he gave it to me, and I said, ‘All right, Dick. Here goes.’ But I didn’t mean it. I meant to call his bluff, make him argue me out of it, make him admit he was a phony and a coward. See, it was something between me and Dick. I