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+# *In Cold Blood* - Truman Capote
+
+## Setting
+
+**What does the setting of the text include?**
+
+- cultural information - America, small isolated community, agricultural economy, 1959
+- explicit mention of dates to set period (Nov 14, 1959)
+- Holcomb, Kansas - small town, "not a place that strangers come upon by chance"
+- introduction to characters - family interactions/relationships
+- integration of events & people to describe culture/period/location
+- "hip-high, sheep-slaughtering snows" - harsh weather
+- description of clothing - "narrow frontier trousers, Stevensons, and high heeled boots"
+- description of accent - "the local accent is barbed with a prairie twang"
+- landscape - dusty, dry flat, vast
+- low population
+- "few Americans [..] had ever heard of Holcomb"
+- dilapidated buildings, uniform through town
+
+**How do the setting and events work together?**
+
+**Foreshadowing**
+
+p 25, 41, 52, 63, 67
+
+- chapter titles - "the last to see them alive" etc
+- not going to church
+- ambiguous implications
+- “Chinese elms had turned into a tunnel of darkening green” (leading up to Clutters' house)
+- “until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans [..] had ever heard of Holcomb”
+- Herbert “headed for home and the day’s work, unaware that it would be his last”
+- “if Dick had not hammered home the every-minute importance of the next twenty-four hours” - Dick and Perry planning
+- “the only sure thing is every one of them has got to go” - Dick
+- “four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives”
+- “Only now when I think back, I think somebody must have been hiding there. Maybe down among the trees. Somebody just waiting for me to leave”
+- dual narrative in chronological order approaching murder
+- - create a sense that the narrative will "collide"
+- - different settings, same time
+
+
+## Characters
+
+### Herbert Clutter
+
+- owns River Valley Farm
+- four children - two daughters + Nancy + Kenyon
+- successful - owns large property
+- "I'm not as poor as I look"
+
+### Nancy Clutter
+
+
+### Kenyon Clutter
+- 15
+- builds stuff
+
+
+### Dick Hickock
+
+- murders Clutter with Perry Smith
+
+### Perry Smith
+
+- murders Clutter with Dick Hickock
+- breakfast - "three aspirin, cold root beer and a chain of Paul Mall cigarettes"
+- self-centred/egotistical - “Every time you see a mirror you go into a trance”
+- more open/prominent in text than Dick