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Title: Chilling Tale
Review: Written in response to the senseless, seemingly motiveless murder of a family if 1950s America, Truman Capote engages and thrills the reader; while forcing them to question and consider the views and values that they hold dear.Capote draws on his honed journalistic skills to report from a number of different perspectives. Although we know from the outset who will die, it is still a genuine shock when it occurs. At times you may also be disturbed by feelings of sympathy for the two murderers.Making no excuses for anyone, "In Cold Blood" challenges the legal system, when it becomes blatantly obvious that no semblence of a fair trial was observed - and when both men are given the death penalty a strong sense of injustice becomes apparent. We are also left to question why the authorities chose to target these two specific men when there were other horrific crimes occuring across the country.
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