While in prison, Dick Hickock hears a cellmate's story about $10,000 in cash kept in a home safe by a prosperous rancher. When he's paroled, Dick persuades ex-con Perry Smith to join him going after the stash.

On a November night in 1959, Dick and Perry break into the Holcomb, Kansas house of Herb Clutter. Enraged at finding no safe, they wake the sleeping family and brutally kill them all - the rancher, his wife, and their teenage son and daughter. The bodies are found by two family friends who come by before Sunday church. The murders shock the small Great Plains town, where doors were routinely left unlocked.

The killers then travel to Mexico, Hickock playing their way with bad checks. Tension grows in the co

He is a member of the church, the Farm Credit Board and was the founder of the Kansas Wheat Growers Association as well as a respected leader of the

Capote achieved more than just inventing a new genre-journalism written with the language and structure of literature. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter talking on the phone to her best friend about her boy problems, the slit throat of Herb Clutter, the cords tying their arms and legs, Perry Smith's Gibson guitar and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and the final "thud-snap" of the rope-broken necks.

It is not only with a sick sensation of horror but with simple, genuine human sympathy that we watch the senseless murder of the four Clutters. Depicted with even greater care and with an insight always controlled by the facts of their lives, by their confessions, and by the testimony of others who had known them, are the two loathsome murderers.

He also used a lot of descriptive details to make the people more real to us, the readers. It helps you to picture and understand each person in a different light. Truman Capote also uses what one might call a teaser. He switches from one character to the next making you wait to find out what happens with the last character.

unlocked and everyone knew everyone else. There was peace in America and trust was the basis of the community where the Clutter family raised their four children, two of which had already set out on their own.

This work takes place at the end of the 1950s, in a more innocent America, a small rural farm town. At this time everyone left their doors

mplicated relationship between smooth-talking but malevolent Dick and half-Cherokee Perry, a moo

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