In Cold Blood Essay

In Cold Blood is a well detailed book about the murder case of the clutter family.

Although it has been banned for its sex, violence, and profanity, it has a well written story about a cold blooded murder. The two main characters Perry Smith and Richard Hickock where the two convicts that murdered the clutter family. Having a real story behind it makes it a bit more interesting giving it a real life scenario. In cold blood is easily a classic for banned books making it in the top fifty.

Truman Capote is more like a journalist following the story getting details on the case before he writes how the facts, but then putting in some extra storyline to grab the attention of the reader. Truman Capote was born in New Orleans, Louisiana but after his

Other voices, other rooms was Capote first bestseller where he gained a lot of fame, it was the first book where he got recognition. It's a story about a southern boy trying to find his father and with some hardships he published this in his early twenties but it was his first book that was recognized.

Some themes that are shown in his book In Cold Blood are religion, gender roles and family. For the religion Capote rights about god and the Christian religion how it should be part of an everyday routine. The Clutter family goes every Sunday to church with Clarence Ewalt and

Acosta 2 his daughter Nancy, they think if you don’t go to church on Sunday it’s a great sin. A lot of their beliefs and reasoning’s come from the bible and if it wasn't in the bible they refuse to do it.

Another theme is gender roles, in this story women were treated as equal to men because it was in the 1950s, where women's rights were passed. There really was no problem for women to be doing work, but they also responsible for all the house works before they went to work. This

The last theme from this is family which has a huge part to it, Perry always thought it wasn't important and he considers the people who protect him, close friends are his real family and the only family he needs. Another thing is that not every family is perfect and how Perry’s family was messed up and he did not consider them a family.

In cold blood should not have been banned but challenged aside from it profanity, sexual contact and its violence it is a well thought out book, it leaves you questioning the next scenes. “I didn’t want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” this was the first part where they both decided to kill the clutter family it started with the father, although Perry allegedly liked the clutter family and didn't want to do it again to the rest of them. The two convicts had nothing against the clutters but the only reason why they decided to kill them was because they had some valuables a robbery basically. This book should have been addressed to an older audience not high school students. Truman Capote's In cold blood is a well thought out book of a true murder case of