real life

I find this text difficult because of the amount of information that Capote speaks of. He acts as though he made the whole story up himself. He has the ability to go into such detail that I question the honesty of it, which I know I shouldn't. He paints a picture of the family and the criminals and I feel as if I have known both personally. This is a real life story that, to me at least, has become a novel. Something that one invents and creates. I believe the story and I know it is based on true events but it is easy to get lost in the story and to believe that it is just that, a story. I find that the way Capote will randomly drop in facts about who is speaking (for example, saying how someone died six months later) is a quick slap of the reality and shows that it is just a well research true story.
It is the way that Capote speaks of characters as if he was inside their brain, and shows what they are thinking about intrigues me the most. The way he knows so much detail about each persons past is amazing. This book has made me want to go see Capote (which was previewed at the beginning of Junebug) so I can believe that Capote took so much time to research the story and that is in fact true. I know this is a true story and I keep telling myself it, but at times it seems like a piece of literature. I found the first half of the book slow and was not interested with Dick and Perry but once they left Mexico, I couldn't put the book down. I just wanted to see them get caught.