Have anybody read the book called "In Cold Blood"?
No I haven't but after reading the past comments, I'm going too. Sounds very good.
Have you read 'In Cold Blood' by Truman Capote?
If you have, i need some help answering these questions in paragraph form... 1. What does the title mean? How is the title significant to the plot? 2. Create another title for the novel. Explain its significance or meaning to the book’s main idea (theme). 3. Choose three quotes, one from the beginning, middle and end of the novel/story. Use a parenthetical note to identify the page number/speaker. See the example. Explain their significance to the plot, characterization, or main idea. 4. What was your favorite part of the story? Why did you like this part?
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote?
Ok. So, in my English III Enrichment class were suppose to be reading a book. Soon, (tomorrow) we're going to the library to prepare for our research papers. Let me give you an example of what we're suppose to do: For example, my friend is reading a book about Frederick Douglass (a Slave). She has to write a paper about something that she can incorporate the book in. So, she's writting about either Discrimination or about The Causes of The Civil War - And, in her essay she will incorporate her book a little. I need suggestions about: 1. I'm reading In Cold Blood, what topics should I write my paper about? (Specifics please, I'm looking for something that will have a lot of information about, or something very interesting ... I'm only on chapter two and I will read a 100 pages today for my Eng. class tomorrow. 2. How the hell do you pronounce his last name "Capote"? (Stupid question, I guess). .... Thanks!
In Cold Blood Novel Question. Need Help Urgently!!!?
In Cold Blood Novel (Truman Capote) I have to do this for english and I'm really lost.I Just need help finding a passage in part 1 to use that fits all of these requirements. Any comments will help. Select one meaningful, memorable passage from In Cold Blood, which you will then annotate. Each passage selected from In Cold Blood must be 1-2 pages long and clearly demonstrate careful selection. On your passage copy, complete (and clearly label) the following: Context, meaningful diction, syntax that seems meaningful to you. at least one narrative strategy and one rhetorical device. draw brackets around two 5-10 line blocks of text within the passage; for each, choose an appropriate tone word from your list.
In the book, "In Cold Blood", does Perry Smith feel sorry for the murders he committed?
Truman Capote, the author of In Cold Blood, records one of the last things Perry Smith said as being, “Maybe I had something to contribute—It would be meaningless to apologize for what I did. Even inappropriate. But I do. I apologize.”It almost seems as if his half-hearted attempt at an apology was a disclaimer, rather than heartfelt remorse. Why would he feel it would be inappropriate to apologize? Does he feel it would do no good to apologize for something which is too late to reverse, or does he feel it is inappropriate because he doesn't feel sorry?The official last words of Perry Smith were recorded at his execution. It was his chance to publicly apologize for his crimes and clear his conscience, but instead he chooses to place blame at how he, himself, had been wronged by the system, instead:“I think it’s a hell of a thing that a life has to be taken in this manner. I think capital punishment is legally and morally wrong.”— Perry Edward Smith, convicted of murder.Executed in Kansas, April 14, 1965The running theme in the book seemed to indicate that Smith had very little, if any remorse, at having helped murder the Clutter family. He seems distracted, and speaks in a detached manner, as if the murders didn’t really affect him at all, or as if he'd disengaged from his body so much it was as if someone else was committing the crime in his stead.Boris Starling, a writer of thrillers, once described Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment in similar terms. During one interview he said,“It’s all about how the murderer disassociates himself from the act of murder. It’s written in the third person, of him watching himself perform the murder. That’s what happens.”From Adam Pearson’s Words From The Wind blog:“Both men have expressed in their interviews that they felt themselves torn between a sense of vivid first-person agency and a sense of disconnected third-person spectatorship, It seemed at times as if they became mere spectators to their own actions, watching themselves, as if from outside, carrying out the brutal murders of innocent individuals.”-Excerpt from an article on infamous serial killersI'd have to speculate, from my reading of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, that I didn't get the sense that Perry Smith felt any remorse for his part in the crime. I have a feeling he was a manipulative psychopath unable to express much emotion about anything at all.Interview with Boris StarlingWords from the Wind
When aspiring writers are told to read good books, which books are they referring to exactly?
The most important thing is for writers to swim in words. There's little point in recommending a few good books, because writers should be reading hundreds of books. They should read every day. My advice is ...1) Read reviews, to get a general sense of which books are praised by critics and/or popular with readers, and ...2) Vary your reading, picking books from every genre you can. If your goal is to be a sci-fi author, make sure you're not just reading sci-fi. Read romance novels, westerns, literary classics, mysteries, and non-fiction books about History, Science, Psychology, Crime, Biography, and so on. If you really want a list, here's a rather arbitrary one that should keep you busy for a while. It's purposefully a hodge podge of books by writers I happen to think are good:"Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtryEssays by George Orwell"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte"1Q84" by Haruki Murakami"Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen"Hiroshima" by John Hersey"The Island of Dr. Moreau" by H.G. Wells"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" by Raymund CarverPersonal essays by Phillip Lopate"Bleak House" by Charles Dickens"The Queen's Gambit" by Walter Tevis"Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain"Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood"Winnie The Pooh" by A.A. Milne"House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton"Catherine the Great" by Robert K. Massie "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez"Neromancer" by William Gibson"The Shadow Knows" by Diane Johnson"Middlemarch" by George Elliot"The Accidental Tourist" by Anne Tyler"Fox in Socks" by Dr. SeussThe Rabbit books by John Updike"Housekeeping" by Marilyn Robinson"The Extra Man" by Johnathan Ames"The Botany of Desire" by Michel Pollan"Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper LeeJeeves and Wooster stories by P.G. Wodehouse"The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman"The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" by Oliver Sacks"Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carol"Watership Down" by Richard Adams"Up in the Old Hotel" by Joseph MitchellShort stories by Anton Chekhov"Master and Commander" by Patrick O'brian"1984" by George OrwellThe Stories of John Cheever
In Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, what are the page numbers for these quotes?
"We ate lunch at the cafeteria in the park. Afterwards, avoiding the zoo (Holly said she couldn't bear to see anything in a cage), we giggled, ran, sang along the paths towards the old wooden boathouse, now gone." “She was still hugging the cat. "Poor slob," she said, tickling his head, "poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't any right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together. I'm not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it's like." She smiled, and let the cat drop to the floor. "It's like Tiffany's," she said." “Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky." "She's drunk," Joe Bell informed me. "Moderately," Holly confessed....Holly lifted her martini. "Let's wish the Doc luck, too," she said, touching her glass against mine. "Good luck: and believe me, dearest Doc -- it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.” I read it on the kindle so I can't find page numbers :/
What are some recommended good books for me to read that meet these requirements?
A book that scares you - A portrait of the Artist as a young man. James Joyce. Everyone is terrified of Joyce but this book is pretty accessable. A non-fiction book - Wedlock. Wendy Moore. This is an amazing book that shows life is stranger than fiction. A graphic novel - Persepolis Marjane Satrapi. Could also double as book that was made into a movie. A book with magic - Charmed Life. Diane Wynne Jones.A play - Dancing at Lughnasa. Brian FrielA book based on or turned into a TV show.- Strumpet City James PlunkettA book you can finish in a day - Gentlemen of the Road, Michael Charbon.A book with a number in the title - Catch-22 Joseph HellerA book with non-human characters - Animal Farm. George OrwellA mystery or thriller - Mallory's Oracle. Carol O'Connell.A book of short stories - Enter Jeeves. PG WodehouseA book based on a true story - In Cold Blood. Truman CapoteA book based entirly on its cover - The Children's Book. A S ByattA book set in another country - The poisonwood bible. Barabara KingsolverA book with more than 500 pages - Anthem. Neal StephensonA Trilogy - His Dark Materials. Philip PullmanA Classic Romance - I Capture the Castle. Dodie SmithA Book set in the future - Do androids dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K.Dick.A Book set somewhere you have always wanted to visit. - Memoirs of a Geisha. Arthur Golden. A Book with a love triangle - Gone with the Wind (more of a love Octagon but anyway) Margaret Mitchell.