What Is The Mood Of In Cold Blood By Truman Capote

Truman Capote, the author of In Cold Blood, considers his book to be a non-fiction novel. This form of literature is known as a“prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.” Although this book is said to be a non-fiction novel, Capote leaves a certain sense of self-implication in the text. The reader feels certain emotional characteristics in the author’s writing and senses a lot of emotion lingering throughout the novel. The emotions shown in this book are Sympathy, repugnance and the disapproval of actions committed. By using the juxtaposition between Dick and Perry, Capote clarifies the reader’s vision of good and bad in the story. Capote set high goals for himself in trying to write a

The reader notices Capote’s techniques in his various attempts to create sympathy for perry and repugnance and condemnation towards Dick; these methods leave the reader with many heterogeneous emotions, in which their contrast creates an enhanced context of each emotion.

The book starts out describing the Clutter family and their daily routine while explaining what exactly what was going on the day of this murder. Although these characters aren’t present, this gave them a sense of humanity and normality. This sense of normality creates sympathy for the Clutter family which then intrigues the reader as to why they were murdered. At first the reader feels horrible and feels absolutely no sympathy for the murderers, as the book develops, the reader then understands Perry more and more but also criticizes Dick mostly. The reader often questions his own emotions and his state of mind reading this book. Capote creates sympathy for Perry which is completely abnormal and taboo for a reader because it is not normal for someone to feel sympathy for a murderer unless there are extenuating circumstances. Perry is portrayed as psychopathic killer with no emotions whatsoever. Capote

Capote could not relate to Dick because of his personality, his childhood and his manipulative tendencies. Unlike Perry and Capote, Dick had a normal upbringing, giving him no reason as to why he has such a personality.. Even though Dick seems to be compared to a monster,he has human features, that all further the reasons for his psychopathy. He is primarily motivated by selfishness, greed, self-indulgence; he is manipulative, sadistic and narcissist. Dick is impulsive and can’t control his emotions, which cause him to lash out while trying to get whatever he wants. He will stop at nothing to get what he wants, he feels absolutely no remorse for what he does. This adds to Capote’s condemnation of the portrayed image of Dick. The author and the reader both seem to disapprove of his action,. The act of condemning him seems just although he wasn’t the one who killed the Clutters directly. Dick came up with the plan to rob the Clutters. Which indirectly makes him a culprate. Perry had no influence as a child, he had no male figure in his life at all. He searches for a role model. Dick becomes that role model because he is strong physically and mentally. Perry follows Dick’s instructions and listens to him. Capote exiles Dick from society, while Dick is being removed from society and being put on the outside of the world, he watches everyone through the glass window seeing what everyone else