not get this same effect watching the movie, as the reader does in the first few pages of the novel. The tone is set quickly and effectively. With the book and the movie you are not being invited into fictional believe and deaths, into the imagination, but into the absorbing reality of flesh and blood. (McCabe 561).The good people of Holcomb do not like strangers, but are faithful to their neighbors. Truman Capote traveled to Kansas in the fall of 1959, with a footlocker of comestibles sufficient to support a few weeks of life in the forbidden land. (Literary Classics 2). The population of Holcomb was untrusting and suspicious of anyone alien to it. In due time Mr. Capote became as much a fixture of Finney County, Kansas as the roadside signs welcoming you to their fair city.During the investigation the reader gets totally involved with Alvin Dewey, the main detective in the Clutter investigation. When they find Smith and Hickock, Capote makes the reader wants to cheer aloud for the investigators. (Manaly 1). The movie is not as involved, you do not get as caught up in the investigation while watching the events of their capture unfold, as you do while reading Capotes reenactment.The trial was scheduled to start on March 22, 1960. The novel follows the trial extremely close. Mr. Capote was there in Garden City Jennings 3where the trial would be held. The defendants lawyer asks for Smith and Hickock to be sent to a state mental hospital in Larned, for evaluation,Judge Tate denied the request. Assistant prosecuting attorney, Logan Green, pointed out to the court that Kansas law, in regard to sanity, adheres to the MNaghten Rule, the ancient British importation which contends that if the accused knew the nature of his act, he knew it was wrong, then he is mentally competent and responsible for his action. Furthermore, said Green, there was nothing in the Kansa...
