"in cold blood" by Truman capote

  1. How does Capote use the classic conventions of sensationalism in his true crime stories? Where does he depart from those old rules of the genre? 2. How do the secondary characters, like the townspeople and the milieu of Kansas itself, shape Capote’s telling of this crime’s impact? 3. How does knowing how the story ended (Smith and Hickock were caught, tried, and executed) affect the way you read the book? What catches your eye if not a mystery?