Or, if worse comes to worst, you can always just watch some TikToks \()/. If you’re new to French pronunciation, you can also start out by trying to learn how to say your name in French.
What do we make of people who commit such shocking crimes? Do their lives have any moral standing at all? Is the death penalty morally justified? Do the condemned deserve pity, or at least, mercy? If you read the ending of this poem, you'll see that the men about to hang pray to Jesus for salvation for themselves. You can do this by doing one of Rosetta Stone’s 5-10 minute lessons, listening to some French music, or watching some French movies. We think that what Capote is doing here is setting us up for the central moral question in his book. So, what could a section from a poem entitled 'The Ballad of the Hanged Men' have to do with a novel entitled In Cold Blood, which ends with the hanging of two men? Hmm. An epigraph is an appetizer for the book it teases you into thinking about what's going to come in the book without filling you up. This is a version of the translation from the French of the epigraph that Capote chose for In Cold Blood. Francois Villon, 'The Ballad of the Hanged Men' For, if on poor us you take pity, God will sooner show you mercy. Men my brothers who live after us, have your hearts not hardened against us.
