Suspense (Danny)

Capote builds up suspense by using a method of only giving little bites of the crime to the reader and he makes it sound more interesting then what it is. Capote only gives us details of what’s going to happen at the end of the book. At the end of each chapter the four members of the family ends the chapter saying something that is related to death or as if they knew what was going to happen to them. I think capote uses this method to keep the reader reading the book to the end of the book. Because the reader is probably thinking while reading that the murder is going to happen at the end of the first chapter or the beginning of the second one. I also think that he does this to keep the story interesting why, well because it wouldn’t of been the same if he just say’s the murder in the first chapter it wouldn’t be a story there but the way he does it, he explains everything and keeps on giving little bites of what is going to happen. I like this method that he uses because it makes the story more interesting, it wants to make me keep on reading the story more and see what’s going to happen. The way he wrote the story makes you doubt if the family is really going to be killed or if a member of the family is going to survived.

Reputation (Danny)

Reputation today is really important in our society and I think that it’s going to be like that forever. I you have a bad reputation people are not going to want be around you or they might just hired you if you ask them for a job, if you done something really bad in your past people are not going to be your friends. And if its not truth then people might still judge you because all this other boys/girls are saying things about you. Reputation is the way you make new friends or to get a job, reputation is like the history of someone. Many people don’t care what others think of them but once again what people say about you can really affect you in many ways. People don’t really care what others think of you because most of the time it’s not truth what others think or might say about you, but if what people say about you is truth then the you might have a hard time to find new friends, a new job, being accepted in your new school or your new neighborhood. Reputation is a main thing in life and its going to be with you forever and ever even if people don’t know your past you are still going to remember what you done in the past and its going to be with you forever.