Examples Of Syllogism In To Kill A Mockingbird

Although Capote compares the Clutter family and the two murders, he intends to portray Perry and Dick as bad people and victims to the audience, therefore surrounded by the murders actions Holcomb is transformed into an unpeaceful town of uncertainty. During the transformation of Holcomb the town betrays the familiarity of one another. Capote employs significant syntax to indicate how the town of Holcomb betrays each other during the finding of the murder. Capote states “ The quality of facts to be sought and sifted… the tracking down, “checking out” of hundreds of people, among them all former River Valley Farm employees, friends and family.” (Capote 104) Given a better understanding that there many be no hope in finding the murders amongst all the people. It is not easy to pick out the murders in a quaint town like Holcomb where everyone is familiar with all. They are so many theories on who could have been the victim, so many …show more content…
Syllogism is used for cleaning the house in saying “ Mops and pails, detergents. They were wearing oldest clothes. For, feeling it their duty, a Christian task, these men had volunteered to clean certain of the fourteen rooms in which four members of the Clutter family had been murdered by, as their death certificates declared, “ a person or persons unknown.” (Capote 77) The uses of syllogism displays how the murderers have committed a crime where it can be undone, to show what great harm was done. In comparison to cleaning the house, cleaning society can never be fully cleansed. The death of the Clutter family has affected what the people of Holcomb will forever think of not only the Clutter’s but also their house. Their are different ways people can see you, citizens of Holcomb could have thought the Clutter’s must have done something to deserve this when Dick and Perry killed them for the