• ‘In Cold Blood’ Truman Capote

    I did a report on ‘In Cold Blood’ by Truman Capote. There may be some spoilers but nothing too bad. It also has a quick biography on Capote as well as what I liked and disliked about his writing. Enjoy! Truman Capote began with a novel about murder and created a compelling account of two troubled men. The novel reads like a movie screenplay, the scenes are each so vivid. The novel begins with the Clutter family alive and shows how they lived their lives. Capote describes the property and town intricately. While he is showing the murder victims he is showing the beginning of the murders trip. The first section of…

  • Dislodged

      Inside the cramped bathroom off the Chancellor’s suite loose tiles are falling off the wall, crashing into a pile on the floor. The culprit: water and frost that has been seeping in through the cracks in the stone. The President’s Lodge is a grand three story (four if you count the basement) house on the edge of the King’s College campus. The once beautiful home is now closed due to cracks in the foundation. Walking from room to room, the cracks get longer and the piles of destroyed wall and ceiling get bigger. “It is sad,” said Pamela Hazel, assistant to the president, Dr. Anne Leavitt, about the disrepair.…