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In Cold Blood Journal 1

In Cold Blood starts out with the setting. The innocent and humble county of Holcomb, Kansas. Which is a consistantly dull town in western Kansana. In Holcomb everyone knows everyone and everything about each other due to the small town atmosphere. Holcomb is a place where people seldom remember to lock their doors at night or just dont care to do it because of the false sense of security they feel they have in their small town.
Then we go into the specifics on the memebers of one of the ordinary families of Holcomb, the Clutters. The Clutters were not the richest family in Holcomb but had no finacial prolems of any sort. The clutter familiy consisted of four members, the husband, wife, one daughter, and one son. Mr. Cuttler was a well natured man of good status and statrure. He was very loyal to his community, church and family. He was a clean man never smoked or drank achol in his life. He was also very handy owning a farm and built the house they lived him from scratch. Herbert Clutter's wife was a very well spoken, clean cut housewife. But unfortunatly she had a round of seroius little nervous spells. She had been having these health problems for up to 6 years. The family was well known of her little condition but no one ever really mentioned it to each other.
The Clutter's farm was a very successful business and had quite a few workers and handymen that helped out with the livestock and the grounds of the farm. Becasue of this the workers got to know the Cutter family very well over he past months they had been working for them. They found out that the clutter family was very wealthy and had money in a safe at their house.
By this point the author, Truman Capote gets into the detail of the family and how the farm works and how the workers play a large part of the plot. The workers of the farm are the ones who visciously moruder the Clutter family. Capote starts to get into the complicated minds of the two parolees who together commit a mass murder, an act they never would have been capable of individually. The murders that are committed play a huge effect on the Holcomb community.

posted by myles @ 1:44 PM