oh the facts!

one thing that does make this whole endeavour much easier is when capote uses quotation marks on things like testimony, letters, and interview with the people in the town of Holcomb. He seems to have thoroughly investigated this crime and everything surrounding it as well. He has gotten interviews or at least responses from several people involved with the case, such as the chief investigator for that region as well as people like the twon postmistress. All of these factual tidbits are not presented as "he/she told me" but rather in a fluid stylistic way that melds with the rest of capote's writing, yet the reader is still given enough information to know that what is being said, is basically what was said, at least the important parts anyway.

also, the letters. luck for capote and the reader [and probably the investigators as well,] perry was very much into correspondence and had a wealth of letters on him in his possesions. because of this, we really can get word-for-for truth. capote obtained letters from former prison mates of perry as well as letters from dick to perry and others. perhaps much of the quoted sporatic dialouge that capote incorporates was found in these letters, because these words cannot be unsaid.

look at the presentation

basically, i've realized i should have picked a different focus at this point. maybe if i had a lot of time on my hands i could have gone through and done well with this one, but in reality, it just takes too damn long to do these tryiing to decipher fact from fiction. i would have tried finishing these last night, but i got caught up with graduation and then didn't get home until very late. i'm not giving myseld an excuse, because i'm a lazy bum regardless, but still. just to let you know why it wasn't done sooner like last night.

many times because we can never be really sure about what is real and what isn't, we have to think about ways we present things ourselves. however, we have to give the author a little more trust than we have because he is supposed to be portraying a real event. when capote states that "dick told perry" i'm am going to assume that these details, although dialouge, are most likely realistic. they were probably gained through testimony or intereview. however, when capote delves into long conversations between the two, we must begin to understand that every word cannot possibly have been said by our killers.