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In the novel, In Cold Blood, Truman Capote narrates the days before and after the murder of the Clutter family. And because this novel is based on a true story it has a text connection to real life situations. This book is significant because it was one of the first detective novels to reveal who the murderers and victims are. The main suspense of this book is how the Clutter family got murdered and the gory details behind them. This type of novel was new to the detective stories. There are many murders that happen in the world. Most of them are very similar. Why? It is probably because they get the ideas from past murders. The killings of the Clutter family could be related to the killings in Luby’s massacre. Even though the murderer did not have a grudge against the people, he still killed the majority of the people on the location. This is similar to the murders in In Cold Blood because once the murderers killed one person, they killed the surrounding people.
While reading In Cold Blood, I noticed that the frenzy the city of Holcomb was in after the murders of the Clutter family was similar to the frenzy of the neighborhood in an episode of Twilight Zone where a rumor spread that one of the neighbors was actually an alien. In both events the people of the city started to become weary of the people around them and in the end the entire city was in a frenzy.
Your text connections are very similar to mine. I agree with the fact that Capote's story relates to the history of American Violence and would even if it wasn't based on a true story. The Clutter murder was extremely similar to Luby's massacre. Because both murders were without a motive or a grudge, and because most of the witnesses were murdered, the teat connection that you made was accurate. When the town went into a frenzy, it reminded me of the new movie Red Riding Hood that just came out. When the murders start happening the people in the town started to distrust each other and look at each other differently, just as it was in In Cold Blood.
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