Truman Capote’s view of Holcomb, Kansas is visualized by using tone, rhetorical devices, point of view and his writing style to create imagery. Although Capote’s view of Holcomb, Kansas can be characterized in many ways, they all have description of what leads up to the night of the murder. Therefore, these elements help imagine Holcomb, Kansas.
Truman Capote uses figurative language in order to visualized Holcomb, Kansas. Truman writes with a tricolon , “ Unnamed, unshaded, unpaved.” Holcomb is a town with not much of anything in it. Saying that the town’s so small and uneventful that not even the roads are named or paved. Holcomb is an empty and lonely town where nothing happens. It has run down houses and boarded up shops. To create more characteristics about Holcomb, Kansas Capote uses anaphora to show how empty and seemingly unimportant the town is. He writes, “ Like waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe, drama in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there.” Even the most exciting of things that could happen, Capote says that it doesn’t matter in the town of Holcomb, Kansas. No one wants to stops by. Even though Holcomb might not seem like an exciting town, it’s a great place to live. Capote spends a lot …show more content…
Capote’s tone is described as apparent meaning easy to see or understand that a mistake has been made. What Dick and Perry have done to the Clutter family, we can clearly see that it is wrong. Capote’s tone is also fatalism which is the idea that people have no power over what happens to them. Capote expresses his tone when he says, “ four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives.” The Clutters were an average and normal family that went day by day not knowing that they were going to be killed. The Clutters had no way of knowing they would be killed, so they had to way to prevent
Truman Capote uses figurative language in order to visualized Holcomb, Kansas. Truman writes with a tricolon , “ Unnamed, unshaded, unpaved.” Holcomb is a town with not much of anything in it. Saying that the town’s so small and uneventful that not even the roads are named or paved. Holcomb is an empty and lonely town where nothing happens. It has run down houses and boarded up shops. To create more characteristics about Holcomb, Kansas Capote uses anaphora to show how empty and seemingly unimportant the town is. He writes, “ Like waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe, drama in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there.” Even the most exciting of things that could happen, Capote says that it doesn’t matter in the town of Holcomb, Kansas. No one wants to stops by. Even though Holcomb might not seem like an exciting town, it’s a great place to live. Capote spends a lot …show more content…
Capote’s tone is described as apparent meaning easy to see or understand that a mistake has been made. What Dick and Perry have done to the Clutter family, we can clearly see that it is wrong. Capote’s tone is also fatalism which is the idea that people have no power over what happens to them. Capote expresses his tone when he says, “ four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives.” The Clutters were an average and normal family that went day by day not knowing that they were going to be killed. The Clutters had no way of knowing they would be killed, so they had to way to prevent