With respect to Truman Capote's In Cold Blooddiscuss how Capote's structure of the story to some extent shapes the reader's experience and...

To me
the most interesting aspect of Capote's book was the way in which he withheld a description of
what had actually happened inside the Clutter home until the two killers had been captured. This
was a logical way to tell the story, since Perry Smith and Dick Hickock were the only
eye-witnesses to the four shotgun murders. Ordinarily a crime is described first, then the
investigation, then the identification and capture of the perpetrator or perpetrators, and
finally the trial and sentencing. But if Capote had described the four murders early in the book
he would have used his most emotionally stirring material, and everything else would have seemed
anticlimactic afterward. The reader naturally wants to know what happened in the Clutter house
that night. This is the hook that keeps the reader turning the pages. But until the two killers
were captured, nobody knew much of anything except that four innocent people had been found
dead.