Still Warm Blooded

This week we started reading In Cold Blood, a novel by Truman Capote. The novel requiered the author to do extensive research and even though names were changed, the stories are basically the same. the title pretty much tells the reader that the book will be about murder but the subtitle hints that the bigger part of this will be the consequences. The question now is whether it will be the consequences of the murderers,  those close to the deceased, or maybe the deceased themselves.

These first pages have described the setting of the story, Holcomb. This small town is in Kansas and is described as "an aimless congregation of buildings" and "a haphazard hamlet" (pg 3) the setting is not where one would expect a murder story to take place. The author spends the first few paragraphs describing Holcomb and while the descriptions are very imahinative and clear, the metaphors and similes used make this small town seem dangerous and harboring danger.

After the description of Holcomb, character being to be introduced. Frist there is Herbert William Clutter, a well off land owner. He is a stern man who is very religious and condones drinking. The author uses foreshadowing to let the reader know Mr. Clutter will be murdered when he says:

"...he headed for home and the day's work, unaware that it would be his last." (Pg 13)

The next section of the book describes a man waiting in a coffee shop for a guy called Dick. The guy in the coffee shops name is Perry and is half Irish and native american. There seems to be no sort of  association between Perry and Mr. Clutter but in a later section it seems as though Perry and Dick will be the murderers of the story. There is talks of a gun and what seems to be allabies to where they are. This creates suspense for the reader.

The last character described in depth is Nancy Clutter. She is practiically described as perfect and if she were to apply to college in the present, she would have a long list of activities to put on her application. Her sections feel a little out of place between her father, the man who will be murdered, and the murderers. The author might do this intentionally to hint that maybe Nancy will be an innocent bystander of the murder that occurs. Then again it might go back to those consequences mentioned in the subtitle.