This is a non-fiction novel that deals with the murder of four members of the Clutters: Mr. Clutter, his wife, his daughter and son, that took place in the village in Kansa in 1959. The criminals, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, broke into Mr. Clutter’s house just because they had heard that there was a safe containing 10,000 dollars in the house. After they missed to find it, Perry cut the throat of Mr. Clutter and shot the four members. The motive for the crime is, as I understand from reading the book, no vengeance. It was only to steal money. But murdering four people for just 40 dollars was incomprehensible. The motive lay deep in their childhood memory. Especially Perry got an extreme abuse by his father. He grudged the happy people. He resented society. He was on the verge of mental disorder. They were executed by hanging in 1965. It took as long as six years till the execution from the verdict, guilty—death.
I admire Capote’s hard, persistent, continuous, perseverant, and difficult work in collecting documents, in interviewing inumerous numbers of people related to the crime including criminals’ family members, policemen, jurors, village people, and reporters. It took him six years before he published the book. I saw the movie about how he had made research into the crime, frequently meeting the criminals in the prison. He even watched them being hanged.
The whole story depresses you, but the ending is somewhat written forward-looking way that saves you from gloomy feeling: “And nice to have seen you, Sue [a girl victim, Nancy’s friend]. Good Luck,” he [Dewy, the policeman responsible for capturing the criminals] called after her as she disappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry, her smooth hair swinging, shining---just such a young woman as Nancy might have been.”
I admire Capote’s hard, persistent, continuous, perseverant, and difficult work in collecting documents, in interviewing inumerous numbers of people related to the crime including criminals’ family members, policemen, jurors, village people, and reporters. It took him six years before he published the book. I saw the movie about how he had made research into the crime, frequently meeting the criminals in the prison. He even watched them being hanged.
The whole story depresses you, but the ending is somewhat written forward-looking way that saves you from gloomy feeling: “And nice to have seen you, Sue [a girl victim, Nancy’s friend]. Good Luck,” he [Dewy, the policeman responsible for capturing the criminals] called after her as she disappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry, her smooth hair swinging, shining---just such a young woman as Nancy might have been.”
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