The work of Truman Capote " In Cold Blood" is not only the first- true crime novel, but also a psychological and sosyological novel which is non-fiction. When Capote reads the news in the New York Times, he becomes interested in the murderers of four members of the Herbert Clutter family. As a result of a deep investigation and interviews with the killers, he presents the book, “In Cold Blood” to us. In his interview with the murderers, the author also deals with their psychological state and reveals the reasons for their tendency to crime. However, at the end of the work, we forget about the brutally committed murders and pity the killers and wish them salvation. Isn't the writer's narrative the reason we feel this way? I mean, the author believes Perry is innocent, and not only the author, Perry also believes he is innocent. At the end of the book, we cannot help thinking the following two questions; the first is that who is the culprit, the perpetrator or the reasons/persons that cause the crime? Experiences can alienate a person from life, isolate a person from society, hate those who have happiness that a person does not have, but this is not a sufficient reason for a person to become a murderer. Indeed, the history of many successful personalities is not good. The other is that does having bad parents or having childhood traumas make every person a murderer? For the second question, if our answer is yes, we support Durham Rule which is simply that an accused is not criminally responsible if his unlawful act is the product of mental disease or mental defect. Vice versa, if our answer is no, we support The M’ Naghten Rule which recognizes no form of insanity provided the defendant has the capacity to discriminate between right and wrong— legally, not morally. At the end of the book, we see that The M’Naghten Rule is predicated on at the judgement process. This time, the reader become frustrated with the legal system. In many murder novels, detectives are at work, trying to solve a murder, collecting evidence, questioning suspects, finding guilty and serving sentences. However, in the “In Cold Blood”, from an outside point of view, it is addressed on the human problems, emotional state, psychological problems of the perpetrator of a murder committed in cold blood. Capote forms a deep friendship with the criminal Perry Smith. He managed to delay Perry's execution many times in order to finish his novel and we can say all of authors draw from their own lives for their works. In this work, the author compared his loneliness to the loneliness of criminal Perry and established an emotional bond. We say again, the author believes Perry is innocent in the contrary else the author fails to convince the reader what he does not believe. Perry sees a yellow bird in a few times in his dream. Although Perry doesn't consider himself to be a religious man, he nonetheless ascribes a kind of divine power to the yellow bird. He believes that he is innocent and he will be saved. Perry says “She lifted me, I could have been light as a mouse, we went up, up I could see the Square below, men running, yelling, the sheriff shooting at us, everybody sore as hell because I was free, I was flying, I was better than any of them.” (Capote 542) “Where is Jesus? Where?” (480). And once he woke up shouting, “The bird is Jesus! The bird is Jesus!” (480).

In Cold BloodTruman Capote · Penguin · 2000735 okunma

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