Novelist, Truman Capote, in his nonfiction book, “In Cold Blood,” recounts the village of Holcomb, Kansas in his perspective. Capote’s purpose is to convey the idea that an ordinary town can be altered by a single event. Although Holcomb, Kansas is a tedious town, a single event can change a community and its members perceptions of reality; therefore, Capote's distinct characterization of Holcomb before the crime emphasizes the impact the murders have on this once innocent community.
Because Holcomb is an ordinary town, Capote uses a sarcastic tone to emphasize the unimportance of it. He begins his excerpt by describing Holcomb as a beat-up and torn-down town. “Holcomb, too, can be seen from great distances. Not that there is much to see…”. Capote intentionally concludes the sentence with, “Not that there is much to see,” to stress to the readers that Holcomb is plain, and uneventful. It is critical for the readers to know that Holcomb is an ordinary town, so they can understand that one event can make a town extraordinary. The novel consists of more sarcasm, when Capote starts a paragraph with, “And that, really, is all.”. The tone exemplifies the fact that it is of small detail and …show more content…
He uses syntax that indicates how the holcomb school is a “consolidated” school. This is contrasting the rest of the town as not “consolidated,” meaning that it is unstabilized. An unstabilized town, in which the people’s perspectives changed immediately after the murders. The structure throughout the novel presents syntax, when Capote states, “Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks.” Capote closed the sentence with mentioning that it, “never stopped there,” interpreting that those simple things happen all the time. These are all examples of unadorned things, that never change in
Because Holcomb is an ordinary town, Capote uses a sarcastic tone to emphasize the unimportance of it. He begins his excerpt by describing Holcomb as a beat-up and torn-down town. “Holcomb, too, can be seen from great distances. Not that there is much to see…”. Capote intentionally concludes the sentence with, “Not that there is much to see,” to stress to the readers that Holcomb is plain, and uneventful. It is critical for the readers to know that Holcomb is an ordinary town, so they can understand that one event can make a town extraordinary. The novel consists of more sarcasm, when Capote starts a paragraph with, “And that, really, is all.”. The tone exemplifies the fact that it is of small detail and …show more content…
He uses syntax that indicates how the holcomb school is a “consolidated” school. This is contrasting the rest of the town as not “consolidated,” meaning that it is unstabilized. An unstabilized town, in which the people’s perspectives changed immediately after the murders. The structure throughout the novel presents syntax, when Capote states, “Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks.” Capote closed the sentence with mentioning that it, “never stopped there,” interpreting that those simple things happen all the time. These are all examples of unadorned things, that never change in