Anderson,+Brandon

September 1, 2011 Blog 2

The book In Cold Blood is divided into shorter chapters. In these chapters the narrator is Capote, Capote uses the short chapters to their full lengths. The chapters come quicker, like a brief image, glances as Dick and Perry near the River Valley Farm. It flashes back and forth between the Clutters and Dick and Perry. Telling us what they are doing on their last die alive and trying not to miss a thing on what is happening.

September 9, 2011 Blog 3

The killers approach Holcomb, while the Clutters is going about their normal business day. Capote shifts quickly. It is like a film in which shifts through the scenes to simulate events in different places. The Clutters are blissfully ignorant of what’s to come over their family. The capote capitalizes on this scene. At the end of most of the chapters about the Clutters. The capote writes that this will be their last day alive.