In Cold Blood Rhetorical Analysis

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Truman Capote is an extravagant author, especially when he wrote the book In Cold Blood. Truman Capote describes the town of Holcomb as a fossil to the old western days of yore. He describes the town as ,” A lonesome area that other Kansans call ‘ out there.’” He uses many stupendous ways of literary art to get his point across to the audience. Above all, his first five paragraphs of his tale. Truman’s tone at first toward Holcomb is a sleepy little town that doesn’t have much to offer to travelers, other than a post office and a place to sleep for the night. He keeps the town in a boring and uneventful mood until he gets to the last two paragraphs. He almost makes it sound as if only a few people live in the boring town of Holcomb. Once he

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