... it's easier to understand why the villagers were so shocked because of his death. 2) I'm not sure whether this part is ture or only created by Capote but I think it's main role is to show Dick's strangeness and insensitiveness. To kill an innocent dog for no reason (I don't think that there would every be any reason to kill someone...) is a metaphor of the also innocent Clutter family. I think that this story might be real because after reading the book the readre feels fear from Dick, he is so evil. But on the other hand the writer forms our opinion about the characters in his novel, as wee see them the way Capote describes them. 3) This quotation is so formal, so distanced, that it sounds a report from the news. I think that this is real and the writer's aim was to make the novel much realistic. 4) ...

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