Context in cold blood

Question 1

New journalism

Answer 1

1960s - 1970s

New style of writing was a attempt to incorporate literary elements into journalism

Question 2

Prohibition

Answer 2

No alcohol

1920-1933

Question 3

The Great Depression

Answer 3

1929-1939

Economic depression

Question 4

Anti-establishment movements

Answer 4

1960s

Changes in popular music, sexual revolution & open drug use

Question 5

When did the crime take place

Answer 5

1959

Question 6

When was capote born

Answer 6

1911

Question 7

When did capote die

Answer 7

1984

Question 8

What other famous book did capote write

Answer 8

Breakfast at Tiffanies

Question 9

Where was capote born

Answer 9

New Orleans

Question 10

Faction and Alvin Dewey

Answer 10

Capote friends with wife therefore made him look better

He was not the hero

Question 11

Attitudes death penalty

Answer 11

Since 1953 people favoured death penalty then dropped in 1960

Question 12

Capote and death penalty

Answer 12

Capotes final attempt after being denied by judge to save Dick and Perry, is to sway reader with anti-death penalty bias