Sunday, July 25, 2010
Characterization
Do you think Dick and Perry were sane? Did the psychiatric analysis of them and descriptions of other cold blooded killers surprise you? Scare you? Make you think differently about violent crime or the death penalty? Explain your response.
Pathos
Capote seems to paint Perry in a more sympathetic light than Dick. He seems sensitive and even kind at points; however, by the end you find out that Perry committed all four murders. Did that surprise you? Did you sympathize with Dick more than Perry at any point? Or did you not "buy into" any of the kind characterizations? Explain.
Pathos
How did Capote humanize the killers? Were you surprised by how likable they could seem despite the brutality of their crime and unremoresefulness to the end?
Writer's Craft
Why do you think Capote did not describe how the murders happened until Dick and Perry were caught and gave their confessions?
Suspense
How does Capote build suspense despite the fact that readers know the ultimate outcome from the beginning of In Cold Blood?
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