Truman Capote, an enthusiastic American novelist, published the nonfiction piece “In Cold Blood” with the intention of recreating the murders of the Clutter family, and its impact on Holcomb, Kansas. Capote blends imagery along with figurative language in order to manifest the tone of the passage from happy to mournful.
The passage opens immediately with the device of imagery. Capote describes the Clutter’s house starting with Nancy’s bedroom “There were four bedrooms on the second floor, and hers was the last at the end of a spacious hall” (28). Afterwards, in the following sentences he uses imagery to talk about Thanksgiving at the Clutters: “Among the Clutter kinfolk the Thanksgiving get-together was an annual, turnabout to-do” (28). The
The passage opens immediately with the device of imagery. Capote describes the Clutter’s house starting with Nancy’s bedroom “There were four bedrooms on the second floor, and hers was the last at the end of a spacious hall” (28). Afterwards, in the following sentences he uses imagery to talk about Thanksgiving at the Clutters: “Among the Clutter kinfolk the Thanksgiving get-together was an annual, turnabout to-do” (28). The