In Cold Blood - Suspense (Carlos)

How does Capote build suspense throughout the story despite the fact that readers know the ultimate outcome from the beginning of In Cold Blood? I say Capote kept building suspense through the book when he tells the story from his point of view and from Dick and Perry’s point of view. Even though we know the outcome of the story, Capote builds suspense by showing the path the killers take to achieving the murder. He probably put in some events that probably never occurred in real life but still made it exciting for readers. The quotes that he puts in the book is probably another way that increases the suspense throughout the story. Capote wrote about Dick and Perry’s past to get to know more about them and their childhoods. Capote gives you pieces of the puzzle and you feel like you need to keep reading more; you feel want to know to know how it all happened and can read both the killers traveling and Holcomb’s view which is the investigation and by the end of the story it should all fit together like a puzzle. I haven’t even read the whole book but it’s an interesting story to me because of being to read from two different points of views.

Suspense (Ricardo)

Instead of taking the direct approach of giving every detail of the murder at the beginning of the story, the author, Capote builds suspense in the book by not fully depicting the actual occurrences of the murders while it was happening.  Capote also built suspense from the beginning of the novel by starting the book with a casual scene even though, when the reader picks up the book he/she is most likely to know someone is going to die.  The author also drops hints and clues like the rubber gloves Perry bought that give insight about what is to happen next, and allowing the reader to try and make connections to the murder in order to add suspense.  Recreating all the character’s perspectives lead the reader to suspect certain characters such as Nancy’s boyfriend, Bobby Rupp.  Although when Bobby took the lie detector test and proved to tell the truth about not killing the Clutters the reader was back at square one, only able to infer while the suspense was building in part because the reader wants to know who the real murderers are.  Throughout the story the author also develops the relationship of characters such as Perry and Dick, and at a certain point the reader starts to notice Perry and Dick static characters change to a more dynamic type, adding to the suspension.

Capote (Erick)

Capote keeps us interested in the book because he tell us detail be detail. What’s going to happen with the Clutters family. He tells us what was the environment that they were living in and how the family was like if they had some kind of illness or were sick. Also he says how the life of Dick and Perry were because Perry had a family and he went to bar and would preform and get money out of that so he could gave his family food and keep them in a good environment. Dick was alone he didn’t have no family but his friends Perry and he would always give Perry a ride or pick him up when he was out of the bars or where ever Perry would play. That makes the book interesting because the read want to keep knowing more and more about the book. Also since the book is about a murder its interesting because the reader would like to know was did Parry and Dick kill the Clutter’s family. What was they reason for them to kill the Clutter’s family, or if the Clutter’s family did something to them so Dick and Perry could have done that to them. Also this is something that happen in Kansas and I thought it was pretty interesting that someone would take their time and talk to the killers and to the rest of the Clutter’s family and ask why did Perry and Dick kill the Clutter’s family.

Suspense (Meiko)

I feel like Capote built suspense throughout the book by making you guess what’s going to happen next. When you have the reader thinking what’s next, it also gives them a better understanding of the book & makes the book a little more interesting. In Cold Blood is a good book in my opinion also because Truman Capote knew how to make the book with more suspense. He still has me wondering what is going to happen next. We all know that the Clutter’s were killed but we don’t exactly know all of the details in the story yet. He builds suspense in the book by adding all types of clues, factual information, & things that make you think or ask yourself questions. He also did a good job with this book because it gives you the smallest things, from detail to detail. Truman Capote put a lot of thought into this book because I feel like that’s how you gain a lot of readers & viewers by making the book more interesting. Truman Capote is a great author on so many different levels. The reason being is because he can also break everything up into bits & pieces to actually make us feel like we were there when it happened & The Clutter’s got murdered.

Suspense (Karla)

Even you know the outcome of the of the book in the beginning, Capote builds up suspense is by going giving parts of what’s going to happen and makes it more interesting. He started telling the story different from other books by telling the murders in the beginning instead in the end. By putting the murder scene in the beginning, he slowly develops the suspense and starts developing the facts of the murders and the killers. This also makes you jump into conclusions about the murders and why Perry and Dick killed them. When the murders happened we don’t know much details so as you keep reading the suspense starts to build up and the pieces start to come together. Capote tells the story in different point of views so you know what’s happening in the investigation, the residents in Holcomb and the killers. He also shows suspense by telling how the killers get away. In the beginning we don’t know much of Perry and Dick so when you keep reading you start knowing more about them and discover their background and why they did it and learn about their feelings. This makes you want to keep reading because you want to know more details and how the murders happened. By reading the entire book you start knowing all the details and come to a conclusion, which makes it more interesting.

Suspense (Monica)

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             I think Capote does a good job on building suspense in the book because he does a great job at telling the story from different points of view. He tells the story from the killer’s point of view and how they plan to kill the Clutter family; he puts suspense when he tells the story from their point of view because we can feel what they feel and we can imagine what they are doing which makes the book more interesting. I think the best part were Capote gives good suspense is when Nancy and the other girl go in and find the Clutter family dead. The reason that Capote gives a lot of suspense is so that the reader could really know what happened not just between the clutter family but the killers, cops, family members, neighbors, and people that has ever interacted with the Clutter family. Some other authors aren’t really good with doing things like giving suspense in stories that’s why I think people really like to read  “In Cold Blood” even though they already know what is going to happen they still read it because they also want to know information about the killers and the police and how people felt when the Clutters got murdered. Capote knows people will read his books if he puts a lot of suspense in it, I think that why he chose to write about the Clutter Murder.

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.