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In Cold Blood

Statistics

  Counts

  Total Pages: 8.33
  Total Words: 2082
  Total Characters: 10457
  Number of Sentences: 102


  Averages

  Words per Sentences: 20.41
  Characters per Words: 5.02


  Readability

  Flesch Reading Ease: 57.75
  Fog Scale Level: 13.06
  Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 10.27  

In Cold Blood





CAPOTE’S MOTIVES AND STYLES IN IN COLD BLOOD



     Many writers traditionally use their imagination to fabricate an interesting yet fictional story.  Only their creativity and vision limit their writing.  They can afford to neglect minor details because they do not base their stories on factual information.  There existed a period when this was the only practiced style when writing a novel.  However, Truman Capote pioneered the “nonfiction novel”, as he called it, when he undertook the writing of In Cold Blood.  His book described the well-known murders of the Clutters, a model American family.  Due to the fact that Capote was writing a factual account of the crime, he thought it necessary to make his novel correct in even the smallest details.  This proved to be a very difficult project, but his perseverance paid off.  Capote made use of many literary techniques in order to grab the interest of his readers.  He wanted his novel to be more than just a newspaper description of the crime.  Finally, In Cold Blood was a great success because it told a true story in an interesting way.  Capote overcame a big milestone by discovering a way to write a nonfiction novel, which appealed to everyone.  
     First, Capote knew that he was creating a new art form when he wrote his greatest work, In Cold Blood.  He was a writer for the New Yorker, which gave

him good practice in gathering important facts  It took him six years to complete this book because that is the amount of time that passed from the time the Clutters were murdered to the time the criminals were put to death.  Truman Capote wanted his novel to be as close to the true facts as possible.  He painstakingly gathered information from Holocomb, Kansas, the site of the murders, and various other settings.    In reference to Capote’s obsession for accuracy, Gerald Clark wrote
     In Cold Blood may have been written like a novel, but it is accurate
     to the smallest detail, “imma...

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