Comments on „Cold Cuts” from Truman Capote’s novel ’In Cold Blood’
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Comments on "Cold Cuts" from Truman Capote's novel 'In Cold Blood' Before commenting on the quotations from the novel I have to clarify that 'In Cold Blood' is a fiction based on a true story. This means that the book has several documentary elements and others are fictionals. Capote had to use tools of writing a report, and of traditional fiction as well. As a result, sometimes it is diifficult to separate the realistic parts from the nonrealistic ones, even because of knowing the writer's long investigation about the murder and its background. 1) Telling the custom of hunters might be a true story but the other half of the quotation is fiction, I guess. By the time of writing the novel Mr. Clutter has been dead, so Capote couldn't quote from him. But there is a need for the sentence given into his mouth, because by this ("I'm not as poor...

