In Cold Blood Rhetorical Analysis

This quote by Capote illustrates his technique of engaging his readers by creating a fertile ground in which a story can grow. Just as a farmer manipulates the field to ensure crops grow, Capote similarly manipulates the mind of the reader. He gathers information and compiles it to present a story to the readers and then allows the reader to interpret the novel. Although some argue that In Cold Blood is simply a factual recounting of the brutal murders of the Clutter family, in reality the novel is a compilation of the varying perceptions of those involved—Capote, the towns people, law enforcement, and the reader. Despite the fact that history repeats itself, cultural influences are always changing thus causing the murder to be interpreted

Truman Capote was a very talented writer, and he always knew the perfect ways to portray each character in all of his books. In his book In Cold Blood, Capote interviewed both of the killers, but he knew that there was something about Perry Smith. Throughout the whole book, he would be constantly trying to figure him out and why he did what he did. Throughout the book, Capote uses the technique sympathy to portray Perry.

Capote to get the conclusion of his book pushed the criminals and hoped for their deaths. Unable to deal with his conscious after this Capote turned to drinking. Capote claimed that he could have published a book with all 6000 pages of his notes before he condensed them down (Krebs). The subjects were not mentally stable and dealing with them for so long led to Capote having much guilt and mental unstableness (Biography). The majority of Capote’s influences come from his life and experiences which while they were often damaging, created the style and

In Cold Blood is Capote’s masterpiece, his realistic and detailed writing allows readers to dive into the story and capture every character’s

Secondary Characters (Character Development #3) Truman Capote depicts the extraordinary personalities of secondary characters in his novel In Cold Blood. I believe that he does this in order to give readers a more accurate and detailed understanding of the story. Personalities of all characters are very important because they give us a clear look into what that particular character is feeling and thinking. Main characters typically get the spotlight, but Capote makes sure to share the light with all of the characters.

Both friends appear as characters in Capote's early fiction." (Advameg, "The Young Man" para. 2). While it is true that Capote's life impacted his writings, his writing also significantly impacted him. Capote's rise to fame and addiction to popularity were not the only factors that led him to drug addiction, but also his extensive work on In Cold Blood. "While In Cold Blood brought him acclaim and wealth, Capote was never the same after the project.

He befriends two cons who the killers re based on and learns their story. He shows the story in a different order than most stories are told. At the beginning, he shows the ending of the story, and then he recreates how it came to be. His unique way of telling the story makes it intriguing for the reader. Capote uses different techniques to tell the story of a real murder.

Capote challenges these ideas through the use of digressions, which he uses dozens of times throughout the book. In the beginning, one thinks that these insertions of the criminals’ backstories are a tangent, off topic, or simply filler. One may think this because, in general, people tend to link murderers to a 2D figure, one without a life or emotions,

Within the book, “The Back Door of Midnight”, the effects of syntax can be seen throughout the entirety of the novel. Firstly, the author, Elizabeth Chandler, uses italic to emphasize the narrator’s, Anna O’Neill Kirkpatrick, thoughts. The first example can be found in her first out-of-body experience when she yells “Please stop!” within her mind. This is used to emphasize when the main character is actually thinking versus her normal narration of the events, and helps the reader gain a greater understanding of the character.

Above, on the ceiling, a relief ornament shaped of a wreath, and in the center of it a blank space, plastered over, like the place in a face where the eye has been taken out.” gives the reader a first impression of dull, boring, broken spirited. The short sentences and the commas in them force the reader to pause or break in the flow of reading, so any chance of the moment intensifying never happens. The author does this on purpose to create that more dull, boring tone in the form of simple sentences. She does this because that is just what that moment is, boring, nothing interesting is happening and that is exactly what the character is experiencing at the moment.

Although he ended up being one of the murderers of the Clutter family, the readers often felt sorry for him. In the beginning of the novel the reader finds out that Perry was actually very nervous about committing the crime, he and Dick were on the road to do. Capote made it seem like Perry

Additionally, Capote expressed the idea of there being two sides to every story for both the protagonist and antagonist. By doing so, he used a unique writing style to help develop the story. In Cold

Perry’s erratic spontaneous outbursts is what caused him to go through with the murders and slit Mr. Clutter’s throat which put him on the killing frenzy that ended the rest of the Clutters lives. Capote highlights Perry’s sociopathic tendencies by comparing them to that of Dicks Psychopathic tendencies which exemplifies how when put together they are at each others fault for the

The use of a period, in line 27, indicates another change in the author’s ideas, as if he contemplates the idea of continuing (line

70). Usually one puts things in all caps in order to grab or get the readers attention. This technic is almost seen as a form of desperation in the sense that if you are not paying attention to anything written on the page at least pay attention to this one word or phrase that is highlighted for you. For it is as if you are reading instructions for how to assemble a table, you peruse over them, not truly paying much attention to the words on the page, thinking about other things possibly contemplating what you will have for dinner and then …BAM!