... figure, and was so moved by this man that Truman Capote changed his name from Truman Strekfus Persons to Capote (after the man his mother married, Joseph Garcia Capote). Many of his male characters would come to show this absence of a true father figure, and would spend much time and effort longing ... that was actually visibly emotional (and very hurt). Perry was a very troubled child growing up, and had a good reason for it. Smith also never really found his sexuality, and Capote had a lot of trouble finding his sexuality as well. They both lived with single ... a lot of trouble fitt...

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... someone who's had so much pain in their life. They assume that the "evil" was rooted in something that truly affected the criminal. Perry Smith is no exception. Capote not only included Perry's thoughts, but his father's as well. Perry's father wrote a manuscript called "A History of My Boy's ... clarified as a paranoid schizophrenic, this deranged psychotic motivation can't be to blame for the murders. Dr. W. Mitchell Jones had even said that Perry Smith was "oriented, hyper-alert to things going on about himshowing no sign of confusion."(Pg.296). While it all could be true, Dr. Jones ...

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... won a children's writing contest with his submission of "Old Mr. Busybody."" When he was eleven, Truman rejoined with his mother and her second husband Joseph Capote in New York. In New York, he where attended Greenwich High School, he was encouraged to write by his English teacher named Catherine Wood. ... the story that would be responsible for his most famous work, In Cold Blood. In Holcombe, Kansas, on the evening of November 14, 1959, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock broke into the Clutter's home with the intention of robbing and murdering the family. A fellow inmate, who at one time wo...

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• Grade Level: High School