In the opening excerpt from In Cold Blood, Truman Capote characterizes Holcomb, Kansas as a lonely, abandoned little town that focuses mainly on the children’s education and schooling. It’s a rather unknown settlement, in fact it’s “a lonesome area that other Kansans call ‘out there.’” The excerpt reveals many descriptive qualities about the scant Kansas town and Capote portrays his ideas into words very clearly. Capote conveys this view by using elements such as high, concrete diction and imagery in order to allow his readers to get the full idea of how Holcomb functions as a whole. Capote uses high diction and concrete diction throughout the opening excerpt to allow his audience to better understand the aspects of Holcomb. High diction
