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This 4 page paper compares and contrasts Truman Capote and Bob Marley. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Beethoven and Bach since they are both classical composers; or Monet and Cezanne, since they are both artists. But Truman Capote and Bob Marley? The former is a writer who
popularized the genre of the "non-fiction novel"-his book In Cold Blood is a novel based on actual happenings; the latter is a hugely popular reggae musician of great skill. This
paper compares and contrasts the two. Discussion A brief search for documents that contain the names of both artists reveals that there appears to be little they have in common.
PBSs website does one of those six-degrees-of-separation things, which connects Capote to Marley via Lena Horne and John Hammond; but thats hardly useful. The best thing to do is probably
look at biographies of both artists and see how they compare. One thing strikes an observer immediately, and that is the fact that they both died far too young. Marley
died of cancer when he was only 36; Capote succumbed to liver disease, exacerbated by his drug use and heavy drinking, in 1984 at the age of 59 (Liukkonen). They
are also similar in that they had great success, and then found that success led to unforeseen difficulties. In Marleys case, he was the target of an assassination attempt that
led him to exile in England (Bentley); Capote found himself ostracized by society (Smith). Marley had been a musician all his life, but he and his band the Wailers
were unknown outside of the Caribbean until 1971, when Eric Clapton covered their song "I Shot the Sheriff" (Cridlin). With the release of this number, Marley and his group "soared
to instant fame" (Cridlin). Then in December 1976, Marley was attacked at his compound in Kingston, Jamaica; it was a "normal day" until evening, when "two cars roared through the
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