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"While perry waited in the car, he had gone into the hospital to try and buy a pair of black stockings" I believe that this could of been true because I assume that if either of them were caught they could of confessed to this or another way this could be true is someone could of been at the hospital during this time and saw this. In all I believe that this event is so specific that someone must of been there.

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I think when it had the detective talking reading Nancy dairy that could be realistic because a detective writes down what they are doing to track the case

I don't think that when it had Perry and dick talking about what they had to eat like hio he had 3 steaks ad 12 Hershey is realistic because no one remembers what they eat for like 4 months.

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After the dick came back from the hospital after unsuccessfully trying to get black stockings Perry accuses him of lying about even trying to get the stockings. I believe that it is very unrealistic that that the exact conversation that was in the book occurred and I also believe that it probably didn't even happen. I believe that this conversation didn't happen because it was so specific and there were no other witnesses to it. During the whole story this is such a small part I doubt it was even remembered.

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Something true:
On page 125, Perry was trying to figure out what to do with his 2 boxes filled with memories he had gathered over the years. These boxes were filled with letters, songs, poems etc. I believe that this could be something truthful as something as heartfelt as these memories, he could recall the decision of figuring out what to do with these boxes.

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"She was lying on her side, facing the wall, and the wall was covered in blood. The bed covers were drawn up to her shoulders." I believe this to be true because the detail of seeing something like this are things that are hard to forget if you've seen them, so remembering the details was probably not too hard.

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1.) Truth Page 7 "Mr. Clutter had just one serious cause for disquiet- his wife's health"
I believe this is true because it is a bigger issue and could be a wider known fact among people, instead of the author adding details to the story.

2.) False Page "Down by the depot, the postmistress, a gaunt woman who wears a rawhide jacket and denims and cowboy boots, president over a falling post office.'

I believe this is false because of the high amount of detail that the author most likely put in for the story. Especially for a more irrelevant character such as this lady.

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"She'd been shot in the back of the head with a shotgun held maybe two inches away." This is a kind of detail that one could only know if they were there. Knowing the type of gun could have been more possible if there were only a few kinds, but knowing that they were two inches away is a detail that is simply to hard to justify unless you were there, or have been told exactly.

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"When he came to the part about finding the wires cut right then I thought, Uh-uh, and decided I'd better keep my eyes open. Make aa note of every detail. In case I was ever called on to testify in court." (61-62) Larry Hendricks a teacher took detailed notes of the Clutter families murders when he entered the house. The author could've been able to interview and discuss the notes that Larry Hendricks took.

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"I don't remember screaming. Nancy Ewalt says I did-- screamed and screamed. I only remember Nancy's Teddy bear staring at me." (60) Susan in the moment said she did not remember screaming when finding the body of Nancy. She also was not in a great state of mind once finding the dead body so there is no true way the the author could have gotten a perfectly accurate account of Susan when she found Nancy because Nancy herself could not remember.

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"Far off, in the town of Olathe, in a hotel room where window shades darkened the midday sun. Perry lay sleeping, with a gray portable radio murmuring beside him"(73). I believe this is an example of fiction because there is too much detail. Not only that, but unless Dick was in the same room as Perry, how was Perry supposed to remember that there was a portable radio murmuring next to him while he is sleeping. Even if Dick was there, it is very unlikely for him to remember the color of the radio. No cop is going to question him about this morning, so I believe that this is an example of fiction.

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"Personally, Perry didn't care what he drank, for he was not much of a drinker" (p.48).
I believe that this excerpt may be the truth, as the author clearly studied the killers, Dick and Perry very extensively, and Perry's alcoholism is a topic Capote would have knowledge about.  Because of this, while the specific example of Perry's rejection of a drink may be speculation or simply fabricated, Capote knew that it was a decision that Perry would have made.

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"Johnson, a veteran at listening to ruminations of this sort, knew it was time to intervene," (p.47)
I believe that this quote was almost entirely fiction.  While Johnson may have been deposed during Dick and Perry's trial, highlighting numerous off-topic elements of his job, Capote's assumption of Johnson as a veteran to listening to ruminations is clearly a fact which cannot be proven true, nor be used to argue as a catalyst to his intervention when talking to Mr.Clutter.

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Fact: Quote of Bobby Rupp describing his last trip to the Clutter house. I think this is accurate because it sounds like a recollection of the night he was telling to detectives the morning after. As he is probably talking about the night before, he probably has a very clear recollection of what happened. (50/51)

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on page 31 the author writes about one of the character who dies and what there feeling  which he wouldn't of been able to know.
the author wrights about injures someone got from a motorcycle wreak which the author would be able to find out on pg 31.

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page 73 Larry lingered at the edge of the Teacherage yard, hunched agains't a tree. He couldn't remember ever seeing Bobby cry, and he didn't want to so he lowered his eyes.
I believe this actually happened. Im sure they interviewed everyone in Bobby's family because he was the prime suspect of the murder so they wanted to no what bobby was up to.

Page 73 Far off, in the town of Oalthe, in a hotel room where windows shades darkened the midday sun. Perry lay sleeping, with a gray portable radio murmuring beside him.
I believe this is fake because I the details are way to detailed considering Dick and Perry were one the run for a very long time. How could they possibly remember a hotel room where the window shades are really dark.

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After Dewey talked to the media, the author wrote about Dewey's two theories on how the murder happened. I think that this is definitely realistic details because Dewey would have talked with all of his other colleagues working on the case about his theories. I think it would also be very easy for the author to find one of the people who worked on the case and interview them about their early theories.

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"Why do I keep smelling smoke? Honestly, I think i'm losing my mind.-- I walk into a room, and it's as though someone had just been there, smoking a cigarette.--" I think that this quote from the book is not true, and just an added part to contribute to the theme of the story. I believe it is almost impossible for something that specific to be remembered.

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Fiction: "They ordered two steaks medium rare, baked potatoes, french fries, succotash, side dishes of macaroni and hominy, salad with Thousand Island dressing, cinnamon rolls, apple pie and ice cream, and coffee." (53) I think this is made up because it is extremely unrealistic for a person to remember what they ordered, especially all of that, from a long time ago. It is too specific to be 100% true.

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“ ‘Good grief, Kenyon. I hear you!’
As usual, the devil was in Kenyon. His shouts kept coming up the stairs.
‘Nancy! Telephone!’
Barefoot, pajama-clad, Nancy scampered down the stairs.”
I believe this is false because how could the author know the conversation that Nancy and Kenyon had with no live witnesses? These were two of the people that were murdered and the author never got a chance to talk to them before their death. The author also wasn't writing this from the perspective of someone else. This shows how the author likely made some of the scene up.

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"just the other day he had told Dick "the only real regret I have --- I wish the hell that my sister was in that house" this is clearly false because this is Perry's thoughts

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"After drinking the glass of milk and putting on a fleece-lined cap, Mr. Clutter carried his apple with him when he went outdoors to examine the morning."  - He probably did that, 8/10 believability from me.

"Outside the drugstore, Perry stationed himself in the sun. It was a quarter to nine, and Dick was a half hour late" - This one has a good believability factor in my opinion, he's got a time stamp and witnesses so this meeting probably happened, 9/10 for me.

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"Nancy was a pretty girl, lean and boyishly agile, and the prettiest things about her was were her short-bobbed shining chestnut hair" This feels true because it's a description of her looks which the author could of gathered from seeing a photo of her. He also could of asked people to describe her. It feels like an accurate description and since it's based off of a real girl I don't see why he would pretend she looked a different way.

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"A letter from Barbara was among the sheaf of selected matter that Perry preferred not to leave behind in the Mexico City hotel room. The letter, written in a pleasingly legible script, was dated April 28, 1958, at which time the recipient had been imprisoned for approximately" (138). This is fact because Truman Capote accessed the real letter that Barbara sent to Perry and could describe it in the novel.

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In these pages, Perry finds a manuscript that his father wrote for him to help Perry gain his parole from Kansas State Penitentiary. I think this is truth because I think Truman could've gotten a hold of these letters and would definitely would have added the letter word for word without having to make up anything.

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remember Nancy’s Teddy bear staring at me. And Nancy.
And running . . .
I think this line said by Nancy's friend Nancy Etwalt, was true because of how traumatic the scene was. When you go through something like that, I would think you would remember that for a long time. Also there wasn't a lot of explicit details so it was only the main details that Nancy remembered.

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"until Perry was 5, the team of "Tex & Flo" continued to work in the rodeo circuit. As a way in life, it wasn't 'any gallon of ice cream.' Perry once recalled: 'six of us riding in an old truck, sleeping in it, too, sometimes, living off mush and Hershey kisses and condensed milk.'" I believe that this past experience Perry brings up living in a truck is true. He brings up a memory that he was reminded about. However, this memory seems to be twisted in a small lie. He gets into deep detail of what he ate. Food being not healthy from what he recalled, they may have twisted the story in this case.

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"During the past few days, he'd known a hunger that nothing-three successive steaks, a dozen Hershey bars, a pound of gumdrops-seemed to interrupt." I think that this is unrealistic information because of how specific it is. The only other person who would've seen what Dick ate would have been Perry, but I don't think either of them would have remembered that because they had so much else to deal with. It is also very specific.

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"His wife once said, 'My husband cares more for those trees than he does for his children,'" I feel that this isn't an actual quote. It's a pretty bold thing to say about her husband and I don't know who she would have said this too. I believe the author added this to just prove the point of how much this character loved his fruit trees.

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I believe the description of Dick and Perry's outfits, on page 32, is creative additive because I don't think that they would have remembered exactly what they wore and how they looked that day.
Also on page 32, the founders of Garden City are being revealed and I think it is true information because the history of the town can be obtained by anyone.

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"Of course. His wife has asked him to be sure and collect the family cat Courthouse Pete... a battle lost to a boxer dog had left him with wounds needing both stitches and antibiotics" (pg 148). I think this section must be at least based on truth because of how strangely specific it is. This bit of context about why his cat was hospitalized isn't really necessary for the plot, and the author could have gotten the same effect by saying Dewy forgot to pick up the groceries. This leads me to believe that his cat being hospitalized was a true event that did happen, because otherwise why would the author add this unnecessary detail that (to my knowledge) isn't mentioned again in the book?

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"The broadcast had only begun when the father was startled to hear Dick snoring; as he remarked to the younger boy, he never though he'd live to see the day when Dick would rather sleep than watch basketball"(74). This is an example of truth because there are multiple people witnessing this happening. The father would have remembered this after hearing the details of the murder case. The whole situation would have made much more sense to the father after hearing that his son had driven 800 miles that day. Since this was the last time Dick's father had seen his son, I think he would remember the whole day to a tee.

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"Give Bruce a box of Cracker Jack. Bobby  wants a Coke. Bonnie Jean? We know how you feel, Bonnie Jean, but come on, have a treat" (Capote 116). This quote is incredibly specific, in the way that it pin points the exact snack of each party. Though, I feel that the snack itself isn't the subject of Mrs. Ashida's statement, as she is trying to communicate the fact that Bonnie Jean is "feeling blue". So, in many ways, I feel the motive of the statement was true, but not so much the specifics.
Second, a song of Perry's; "In this world today while we're living some folks say the worst of us they can(...)" (Capote 117). This is a very specific song of Perry's that is decent in length. I am somewhat confused on whether this is fact or fiction because of the specifics of the song. Though, as many song writers do, Perry could have written this song in a journal, and Capote was able to find it after doing research for this book.

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"Perry could remember many another rodeo spectacle - see again his father skipping about inside a circle of spinning lassos, or his mother, with silver and turquoise bangles jangling on her wrists, trick-riding at a desperado speed that thrilled her youngest child and caused crowds in towns from Texas to Oregon to 'stand up and clap'" (131). Although Truman Capote explicitly states that Perry remembers this moment, I don't believe it is fact. Perry was probably around 2-4 years old and he wouldn't be able to recall the exact tricks his parents used to perform and their costumes. Truman Capote made this up to add fun descriptions and hook the readers into Perry's story.

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"Dick had sold the car, and three days later the money, slightly less than two hundred dollars, had largely vanished." I believe this is fiction because this seems very specific for Truman to know. It could be possible for Truman to know that Dick sold his car but I dont think its possible for Truman to know how much Dick sold it for and how much Dick had already spent.

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True: When Bobby said his last visit to Clutters house, we know this is true because his details were from the interview shortly after.

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"Impressions I garnered from the letter
1.) When she began this letter, she intended that it should be a compassionate demonstration of Christian principals." this is true because it's a letter that could be directly quoted from

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" He seemed a flimsy dingy-blond youth of medium height, fleshless and perhaps sunken-chested; disrobing revealed that he was nothing of the sort, but, rather, an athlete constructed on a welterweight scale." I think the description of this person is false because of how detailed the author is when describing his looks. sunken chested just seems way too specific to be true, and it's such a small part of the book that I don't think it would have been remembered.

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"The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call 'out there."(3) This quote can be true because of the fact that the author could have visited the town and its is a real town in Kansas.
"After drinking the glass of milk and putting on a fleece lined cap, Mr. Clutter carried his apple with him when he went out-doors to examine the morning." the action in this quote is not very reliable and cannot be proven by anyone because of the fact that it is only Mr. Clutter in the scene and he is not a very reliable source.

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"Wearing considerably more, Perry, one balmy evening in war-time 1945, found himself inside Honolulu tattoo parlor having a snake-and-dager design applied to his left forearm." This is a true fact because it is given a specific year. If it was false there wold be no year given.

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Page 110
" A sliver dollar rolling across a floor, boot steps on hardwood stairs, and the sounds of breathing, the gasps, the hysterical inhalations of a man with a severed windpipe." - This is very believable and could have happened but it is hard to know the exact details like "the sound of breathing" and if it actually happened so this quote is a 7/10 believable.

Page 120
"The old mans work turned out badly-brown and streaked." - I think this was made up because there is no way to know what his artwork actually looked like.

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Something true:
On page 127 it tells a story of how perry got bullied and always fought back, and eventually, the bully stopped harassing kids and many kids stopped getting bullied as perry would step in. I think this could be something truthful as it has a lot of detail and it recalls his childhood which interviews could get in great detail.

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Referring to Mrs. Clutter, 'She weighed ninety-eight pounds; rings––a wedding band and set with a diamond modest to the point of meekness––wobbled on one of her bony hands."

I believe this to be somewhat fictional, as it seems like the author is exaggerating Mrs. Clutter's condition to make it seem as though she looks more crazy than she really is.

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"Perry could defend himself. He was short several inches shorter than Dick,and his runty,damaged legs were unreliable,but he outweighed his friend."(pg 91)
I feel this description of Perry is real because Truman Capote knew the characteristics of Perry, he saw him  during the interviews, and he knew what he was capable of doing.

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"Perry was sorry to see them go. He'd begun to half credit the make-believe bride, though in his conception of her, as opposed to Dick's,she was not rich,not beautiful" (Pg 98) I feel this part is fake because he is describing something that happened long time ago, and I am sure that Perry forgot about his feelings about the relationship of Dick with the woman

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"But she had already fetched the pot. 'It's on the house, Sheriff. How you look, you need it.'
At a corner table two whiskey ranch hands were playing checkers. One of them got up and came over to the counter where Dewy was seated. He said, 'Is it true what we heard?' " (Pg 149). In this scene, Dewy stops at a local café to get some coffee where he is given a drink by the owner and questioned by some of the customers. I think this scene has to be fiction. The book states that this scene takes place 3 weeks after the Clutter murders. I think the scene serves as more background information on how the investigation is going, not something that the author verified that Dewy was there, at that café, and had that specific conversation with the people there.