Aside from that, "In Cold Blood" is gettin' juicy. It's hard to actually write about this book in sections because it really doesn't have any chapters, so bear with me. As of right now, at this very moment, I am reading about the hunt for the killers. Like the "Death of a Playmate" article, "In Cold Blood" is reading like a mystery. Although we know that Perry and Dick are the killers, Capote is trailing us along like we are part of the community unbeknownst to who actually did it. Because of this, both the reader, and the townspeople acquire a sense of paranoia accompanied with fear that murderers could be walking amongst them.
Like I said in my last post, the small town dynamic is a huge recurring motif. This idea presents itself again in the most recent pages of my reading. Seemingly every FBI agent and police officer are covering the investigation of the Clutter's. When they believe to have a suspect, townspeople rejoice in the idea that the killer is found. However, when said suspect is cleared, officers immediately start searching for new suspects. Rather than completing a thorough investigation, citizens of Holcomb and investigators would rather declare a murderer than actually finding out who it really was. Everybody living in town is scared shitless of the idea of a murder occurring in their small town, therefore declaring somebody the criminal (even if its not true) provides them with a sense of security.
Not sure if anybody has mentioned the fact that Capote is switching from the town of Holcomb and their story, to Perry and Dick while on the run. I like the fact that although both stories are separated by great distance, he is still able to complete the story on both ends. Currently Dick and Perry are somewhere in Mexico I think. What's interesting is the dynamic between the two. Perry confesses that he was surprised that he had actually been able to go through with the crime. In my opinion, this is the first sense of guilt or fear we sense from the murderers. As many of the posts on here have said before, Capote garnered a relationship with both the criminals during the interview process. This type of guilt/fear presented might be Capote attempting to make the two perhaps more relatable. He wants us to see these two in the same light he did.
Like I said in my last post, the small town dynamic is a huge recurring motif. This idea presents itself again in the most recent pages of my reading. Seemingly every FBI agent and police officer are covering the investigation of the Clutter's. When they believe to have a suspect, townspeople rejoice in the idea that the killer is found. However, when said suspect is cleared, officers immediately start searching for new suspects. Rather than completing a thorough investigation, citizens of Holcomb and investigators would rather declare a murderer than actually finding out who it really was. Everybody living in town is scared shitless of the idea of a murder occurring in their small town, therefore declaring somebody the criminal (even if its not true) provides them with a sense of security.
Not sure if anybody has mentioned the fact that Capote is switching from the town of Holcomb and their story, to Perry and Dick while on the run. I like the fact that although both stories are separated by great distance, he is still able to complete the story on both ends. Currently Dick and Perry are somewhere in Mexico I think. What's interesting is the dynamic between the two. Perry confesses that he was surprised that he had actually been able to go through with the crime. In my opinion, this is the first sense of guilt or fear we sense from the murderers. As many of the posts on here have said before, Capote garnered a relationship with both the criminals during the interview process. This type of guilt/fear presented might be Capote attempting to make the two perhaps more relatable. He wants us to see these two in the same light he did.
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