Pop artist Meghan Trainor recently released a song entitled “NO”, which can be interpreted as empowering women against sexual harassment. However, due to its unconventional mode of delivery, many do not understand the message of the song, and if they do, they do not take it seriously. No matter the medium, the way information is presented is vital to the way it is received by its audience. Had the message of Trainor’s song been presented in a different manner, such as in the form of an article, it would have been received with more formality and understanding. A case similar to this is Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, the story of the murders of the members of a prominent family in a sleepy Kansas town, and their killers. In Cold Blood deviates
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This style of writing is known as narrative nonfiction. While nonfiction writing presents information about occurrences in chronological order and in a straightforward manner, narrative nonfiction provides a more highly detailed view of a story, perhaps including the thoughts of characters, giving it a “cinematic” quality (BBC Bitesize; Gutkind). The narrative nonfiction writing style is showcased in the following quote, which describes the day that several members of the Holcomb community helped clean out the Clutter house – “That Monday, the sixteenth of November, 1959, was still another fine specimen of pheasant weather on the high wheat plains of western Kansas – a day gloriously bright-skied, as glittery as mica” (Capote 77). The extensive focus on the details of the day, as well as the similes and other figurative language used to describe it, demonstrate that Capote is using narrative nonfiction in his novel. Had In Cold Blood been written in the standard nonfiction format, Capote probably would not have even chosen to include this description, since he would have wanted to focus more on the actions of those friends of the Clutters who came to help, rather than juxtapose the brightness of the day with the gloom and sadness of their chore. Capote’s use of figurative language is a common thread in the way he weaves the story of In Cold
This style of writing is known as narrative nonfiction. While nonfiction writing presents information about occurrences in chronological order and in a straightforward manner, narrative nonfiction provides a more highly detailed view of a story, perhaps including the thoughts of characters, giving it a “cinematic” quality (BBC Bitesize; Gutkind). The narrative nonfiction writing style is showcased in the following quote, which describes the day that several members of the Holcomb community helped clean out the Clutter house – “That Monday, the sixteenth of November, 1959, was still another fine specimen of pheasant weather on the high wheat plains of western Kansas – a day gloriously bright-skied, as glittery as mica” (Capote 77). The extensive focus on the details of the day, as well as the similes and other figurative language used to describe it, demonstrate that Capote is using narrative nonfiction in his novel. Had In Cold Blood been written in the standard nonfiction format, Capote probably would not have even chosen to include this description, since he would have wanted to focus more on the actions of those friends of the Clutters who came to help, rather than juxtapose the brightness of the day with the gloom and sadness of their chore. Capote’s use of figurative language is a common thread in the way he weaves the story of In Cold