Part one of term paper
In the book In Cold Blood, Truman Capote engages in an analysis of both the murderers and the people who surrounded the Clutter family. Capote goes through an intensive breakdown of the characters, clearly showing how each was affected as an individual by the horrendous happenings of November 15, 1959. The Clutter murders jolted the peacefu ...

Part two of term paper
... as in page 21 we are carried into one of their many conversations where they exchange secrets and dreams. This relationship explains Susan’s reaction when she finds her best friend dead. When Nancy Ewalt shouts that Nancy’s dead, "Susan turn[s] on her. ‘No, she isn’t. And don’t you say it. Don’t you dare" (Capote 60). Her love for her friend does not allow her to realize that Nancy is really dead. She is so overwhelmed with the circumstances that she cannot attend school until a ...