The appearance of In Cold Blood opened up a new novel style, which Capote called "non-fiction novel". After its publication, In Cold Blood quickly became a best seller, and this book was also translated into 25 languages and published all over the world. Of course, its author, truman capote, won a great reputation by virtue of this book and became the most prestigious writer at that time.
However, Capote is by no means a hollow reputation. His article is full of words and interest. Haruki Murakami also said that after reading Capote's novels, he felt that he lacked the talent to write novels, so he didn't try to write novels before he was 29 years old.
Despite these honors, I believe that the case itself has brought Capote enough. It is an incredible thing to kill four people and get only a few tens of dollars. Why are these two so cold-blooded? Not only Capote, but also the reasons behind it deserve our reflection.
0 1 My humanity is only enough to pity myself.
This is the criminal suspect Perry's explanation of this bloody case. From Dick's description of Perry, it can also be confirmed that he is indeed a heartless person.
A natural killer-absolutely calm-minded, but without compassion, with or without motive, can carry out the most ruthless fatal blow.
Why did he become such a person? Maybe his experience can give the answer.
In Perry's own words, he is a person who has never been warm, whether from family or society. His parents divorced when he was a child. He lived with his alcoholic mother, but her mother ignored him at all, which led him to get into many bad habits. Later, he was sent to a reformatory many times and was beaten by a female guard for wetting the bed. Although he joined the army when he grew up, his military life was not smooth because he didn't get a good education since he was a child. He also made a lot of troubles in the army and finally finished his military service in Washington. But bad habits were formed since childhood, and he was jailed for theft many times. He met Dick in prison and committed the subsequent bloody case.
Almost everyone will think that childhood trauma is the most difficult to heal. Alfred adler, a psychologist, said that lucky people will be cured by childhood all their lives, while unfortunate people will be cured by childhood all their lives. The quality of family background will affect a person's life. In Perry's family, none of his brothers and sisters had a happy ending except his sister Barbara. When he was arrested and imprisoned, his sister and father were the only relatives in the world, but they never planned to visit him. His sister even told the police who came to investigate that she hoped not to tell Perry her home address because "she was afraid of him". The warmth of family ties is completely empty talk to him.
In fact, Perry has a high musical talent and plays the guitar well. He is naturally sensitive, and as long as he doesn't touch his bottom line, he is still a compassionate person. On the way to Texas, I met a pair of poor grandchildren. Perry insisted on giving them a ride despite the strong opposition of his companion Dick.
The beginning of life is beautiful, and everyone comes to this world with a blank sheet of paper. As for what he is shaped into, it largely depends on what kind of family he lives in. Although there are many voices against the theory of family background on the Internet, we must admit that family background has really had a great influence on everyone.
Psychologist Freud also said that family relationship and early experience are of great significance to the healthy development of children's personality. Especially in early childhood, the way parents manage their children is the key to their healthy personality. Just like Perry, a person who is not bad in nature will eventually go astray because he can't get a good upbringing.
If Perry's misfortune is due to family reasons, Dick's fall is mostly due to his own reasons.
Dick's family life is normal, his father is strict in discipline, and his mother is diligent and capable, always keeping the house clean and tidy. Until he was arrested and imprisoned, Dick was still the best child in his mother's eyes, and Xiangbi Dick also got a lot of love and even doting from his mother. As for why he fell, it probably started from his first drink.
According to Dick's self-report, after his first love failed, he got into the bad habit of drinking, and he got as drunk as a fiddler every day for a month. I haven't been in the mood to work since then. However, when I spent more money than I earned, I began to have some improper ideas, from stealing to writing fake checks until I was jailed.
Dick started committing crimes when his personal life was a mess.
Adler, a great psychologist, mentioned in his book Inferiority and Transcendence.
All the problems children encounter in adolescence are because they are not properly guided and fully prepared when dealing with the three major problems in life. If a child is afraid of the future, he will naturally choose the simplest way to deal with it. But the simplest method is often useless.
Let's look at Dick's experience, which seems to confirm this point. Adler's three major problems in life refer to academic problems, career problems and gender problems. Academically, Dick plays basketball very well. He wants to go to college to play basketball, but there is not enough money at home for him to go to college. On the issue of career, Dick used to have a fairly stable job, but he didn't earn as much as he spent. He always bought goods that he couldn't afford at all, so he tried his best to satisfy his desires. Not to mention the relationship between the two sexes, I got married early and then cheated in marriage. Later, I broke up with my wife and found that I had never loved her.
He can't figure out the problems in life. When encountering setbacks, Dick either runs away or "takes a shortcut" or is unwilling to make his own efforts to change the status quo. This is also caused by the lack of personal education.
We are born with some human weaknesses. Ease, vanity and laziness are the enemies of our character. A large part of the reason for our education is to fight against these enemies and gradually grow into a healthy person.
Capote and Perry: People who walk out of the same house.
Truman capote, the author of In Cold Blood, has some similarities with Perry. For him and Perry, Capote said this:
We grew up in the same house. I'll take the front door and Perry will take the back door.
Unfortunately, cabot's parents divorced in his early years, and he lived with his mother and stepfather. Soon, my mother died, too. Fortunately, Capote has long been immersed in the world of literature. Perhaps because of his talent in this field, Capote/Kloc-started writing at the age of 0/4, published an article in The New Yorker at the age of 0/6, and won the O'Henry Prize for Literature at the age of 22. As soon as the masterpiece Breakfast at Tiffany's came out, it immediately set off a frenzy in the upper class of new york. Capote also ranks among the celebrities in new york, completing the counterattack in his life.
We can't choose what kind of family we are born in, but we can choose what kind of person we become.
But Capote's life is not so complete. After the teenager became famous, he began to live a free and luxurious life. Then the pain, maybe the exhaustion of inspiration. After Breakfast at Tiffany's, he couldn't write novels for a long time.
Perry's appearance gave Capote new material, and Capote may have seen his own shadow from Perry. The two men admired Capote and promised to find the best lawyer to defend Perry. Perry told Capote everything, but in the end, Perry was sentenced to death.
Some people say that this is also the "cold-blooded" place of Capote. He didn't hire a lawyer for Perry, even though he was fully capable. His work needs a sad ending, so he needs Perry's death to finish it.
After In Cold Blood, truman capote never created such a sensational work. In his later years, he lived a free life. Although he kept publishing his writing plans, no works came out, and the gift that God gave him seemed to be taken back. He was addicted to drugs and alcohol, and died suddenly at the age of 59, with no friends.
About his life, truman capote himself has a judgment:
I am an alcoholic. I'm an addict. I am gay. I am a genius. Even so, I can still be a saint.