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Brandon Kiley Hour 6 1/21/2010 In Cold Blood Analysis Re-Write Truman Capote views Holcomb as a boring country town in western Kansas. Capote conveys his views through appealing to the readers’ senses about the small western town, through a worn-out and tired tone, and with descriptive diction. Even though Capote is interested in Holcomb, Kansas due to the events that occurred, it takes him no time at all to see the town in its entirety. Holcomb is portrayed as being very bland and boring. Capote writes that the town is “a lonesome area that other Kansans call ‘out there.’” To the average reader, this description of the small town paints a picture of a deserted, old, run-down area. The main reason this description makes the reader think the town of Holcomb is so run-down is because even the other Kansans call the town “out there.” Truman Capote also illustrates Holcomb in the reader’s imagination when Capote writes that “the inhabitants of the village, numbering two hundred and seventy…” The thought of a village occupying less than three hundred people really clarifies just how small of a town Holcomb really is. Along with Truman Capote’s appeal to the readers’ senses of a small western town, he uses a worn-out tone to create a sense of the dusty, dirty environment in Holcomb, Kansas. Capote uses this tone when he writes, “nearby is another building with an irrelevant sign, this one is flaking gold on a dirty window – HOLCOMB BANK. The bank closed in 1933, and it is one of the town’s two ‘apartment houses.’” When Capote conveys these thoughts, he makes it well known that the window on this old bank is run-down, and could be better suited by just being completely torn down rather than being used as a “apartment building”. The description from Capote further enhances the reality of just how old and worn down the town is. In the novel, In Cold Blood, Capote also uses descriptive diction to paint a picture in the readers’ head. When Capote describes the streets in Holcomb after a rain or snow storm, he writes that “the streets, unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest dust into the dirtiest mud.” Truman Capote does an excellent job of painting a picture in the readers’ minds of just how disgusting and run down the roads in Holcomb are by using descriptive diction. By appealing to the readers’ senses, as well as using tone, and description diction, Capote paints a picture in the readers’ minds of Holcomb to be a dirty, run-down, western town in Kansas.

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