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Truman Capote Rhetorical Analysis In Cold Blood

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Even though the story starts off pleasant and creates a collection of tones, the overall tone is serious, gloomy, and sympathetic. “Then, touching the brim of his cap, he headed for home and the day’s work, unaware that it would be his last.” (Page 54) Truman Capote foreshadows the tragedy that will take place. As a reader, including this insight at the beginning of the novel leaves a sympathetic and even an almost uneasy feeling about upcoming events of this beautiful family. The whole situation was troubling for the victims and even the criminals. “I stopped that; I told him to go look for the safe while I tied her up.” (Page 298) Like so many others, Perry is shown as a pretty good guy for a killer and as a human being you start to pity him or believe that he should not face the death row. These lines also are upsetting and melancholy. Diction: “Then the mood, like the evening ocean fog now clouding the street lamps, closed around her.” (Page 183) …show more content…

“Thursday 7 January. Dewey here. Brought carton of cigarettes. Also typed copies of Statement for my signature. I declined.” (Page 255) Truman Capote shares with the reader a diary entrée of Perry’s. He is intelligent in the way that this syntax pattern is subject, verb, object, verb, object, and subject. “An aunt-that seemed possible; a visiting spinster aunt, slightly odd, but nice.” (Page 29) Truman uses a hyphen to separate who the noun or person is, and description of her interesting personality. The italicize word is loosely implied to show that even when Nancy’s mom is weirdly nice or it can also be interpreted as her not being nice at all; it is open for the reader to believe in how she really

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