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Truman Capote
The author
- Literary clasics
- Truman Capote (September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984)
- Discovered his talent at the age of 11
- Famous “In Cold Blood” (1966)
-“A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.”
-“No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.”
Quotes
“Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.”
“Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.”
The characters
The Clutters:-Herbert-Bonnie-Nancy-Kenyon
The Killers:-Perry Edward Smith
-Richard Eugene Hickock
The Police -Alvin Dewey
-Harold Nye
The Plot
Therelationship
between
the writer
and one of
the characters
About the style
Themes- Epic Storytelling
- Loss of Innocence
- Family
- Self-image
- Mental illness
The
End