Part one of term paper
Upon arriving in Holcomb, a small congregation of buildings on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, Perry and Dick, two men recently paroled for petty crimes, left almost no evidence behind except for a bloody footprint and a radio they stole from the Clutter house. In the investigative nonfiction murder story "In Cold Blood" by Truman C ...

Part two of term paper
... but not before the reader gets to know Dick and Perry almost to well at times. While reading Truman Capote's nonfiction novel, "In Cold Blood," Capote's presentation of the facts surrounding the murders of an obscure Kansas farmer and three of his family members becomes almost frightening. At many times, the author of this paper was left wondering why this book was having such an effect on him and why it seemed so realistic to him. Initially, one may think the answer to be that the book was ...