Examples Of Truman's Purpose Of The Clutter

Exigence: Truman focuses on details that you wouldn’t think he would focus on such as the description of the town. The main focus I think Truman focuses on is the background of the murderers such as Dick with his car crash that his father believed was at fault for him committing these crimes. Truman spends a lot of the book focused on Perry’s past with his alcoholic mother and mentally abusive father and the abuse he endured as a child especially in the children’s home by the nun he makes it a prominent factor of the murder. As Dr.Jones believed these experiences lead Perry to killing without motive.
Audience: Truman’s audience is the american people to educate them on this case and the cause and effect of the murders that took place relatively close to when the book was published in 1965 (6 years after the murder of the Clutters )

Logos: Truman’s source of logos comes from when Dr.Jones examines the murderers. The fact of the matter shows that if Perry had grown up under different circumstances maybe the Clutter’s would still be alive today.
Pathos: Truman uses Pathos a lot in the story. He first uses it to get you to feel a horrible sense of pain for the Clutter murder even though you didn’t know them. He demonstrates how nice and generous people they were and how innocently murdered. He also ties your emotions to Perry and goes in depth into his past allowing you to feel empathy for him though he killed the Clutters.
Ethos: Turman uses the town as his main source of ethos. The small town was a small religious town where you wouldn’t have expected this murder to