“In Cold Blood” by Truman capote creates a depressing tone and one of sadness. The author creates these tones by describing Perry’s life when he was younger. “His mother, an alcoholic, had strangle to death on her own vomit”. This describes Perry’s mother and how she died. The author also describes how out of his two sisters only one made it. The other killed herself by jumping of a window of a San Francisco hotel. The authors way of describing how dick run over the dog shows how he has no remorse what so ever. While driving dick sees a dog along the side walk without hesitation “Dick swerved toward it.” With pride in his voice he says “Boy we sure splatter him”. The lack of remorse in his voice while announcing that he just killed an animal