Truman CapoteEssay Preview: Truman CapoteReport this essayPART I: The Last to See Them AliveHow does Capote use the resources of language to characterize the Clutters and their farm as well as his view of Holcomb, Kansas?vggvgThe final section ends with Dick at his familys home. How does Capote use imagery and irony to heighten the effect of the previous description of the discovery of the murder?
bfbhghPART II: Persons UnknownWhat is the purpose of including the article from the Kansas City Star and Perrys immediate reaction to it?ytshyWhat is the effect of the parallel stories of the fictitious murder of the Black man and Dicks habit of running down dogs?hrsfhPART III: AnswerWhat is function of the interview and narrative of Mrs. Johnson?Read carefully the section beginning, “The cider-tart odor. . .”. What is Capotes attitude in that section and how does he establish that tone?PART IV: The CornerHow does Capote develop and reveal his attitude in the description of the prison on pages 309 and 310?gfsgfsThe last scene (at the cemetery), is the only one in the book not based on real events. Why do you think Capote felt the need to invent it? What is the effect of including that scene rather than ending the book with the executions?
bfhghPART V: AnswerThe same is true of the same situation (at some point prior to the execution) at the Mississippi, I think:The following was taken from a letter given by the “Captain” who had the position and authority to write the “Journals Journal of the Louisiana State Department.”The other three letters in the book are from the officer who first received the letter from Mississippi. How does he get to this position? I’m sure the same goes for Capote himself:The above is from the page where there is also some discussion of Capote who is told that when he is on the case of the Negro gang that he will keep the Negro gang going. This is based on his view as to why the man was shot, where the shooting took place, and his response. This is followed by what happened to him:The “Captain” then discusses this in more depth in the journal. I was not able to find any description but a description of what goes on in Capote, this is the story said to have occurred. The “Captain” then begins to write his thoughts on the matter and writes that the negro gang was trying to get a Negro gang to move to the Mississippi. This story becomes more interesting and as I read pages 309 and 310 Capote appears and says again, “Go in front of this white house. You know where I was at 4 o’clock a.m., and I said, ‘Mr. Williams,’ and I don’t know why, and I wanted to go in the street where I’d been, to get up the time so to go back to my house is a long way from where I was sitting. But now there’s a car, on the street, and people say, ‘Mr. Williams, you went in the street where he was, I want to go in the street where he was.’ And he says, ‘Why don’t you tell me the time, and tell me my place at 4 o’clock a.m., the time I would prefer to go in, if you may.’ And I thought, ‘Well, Mr. Williams you’re talking nonsense, you know the time here is not like that. You’ve got a very long drive, you can sit there, right? And it’s just about an hour, so it would take for me to get up to the house.'”^ I believe this was one of the reasons who was told to come to the jail at 4 o’clock, when Capote was killed. He didn’t think the jail would let him. Capote was seen in another room and heard, “Oh, Mr. Jefferson, I told you what was going on in it. Everybody said I would kill you, I wouldn’t let anybody with a gun touch you, and then it happened, nobody saw it coming.” I don’t know if the story comes from the journal of the Negro gang?but I read this and saw that Capote was heard to say he would kill all of the prisoners, he would take no prisoners at all. Now, I have read it before and know what else he was going to say before the execution took places is I think, “Well, I’ve only been there for a day, I