In Cold Blood Excerpt Analysis
Truman Capote's excerpt, from his book In Cold Blood, depictes exactly how the reader should be imagining this place to be a small town “nowheresville,” Kansas. A place that just by itself and not known.
The excerpt talks about a small town in Kansas that is irrelevant that even few residents know about. From the beginning, it's apparent that the narrator needs the reader to see Holcomb as a shabby and torn-down town. The narrator, is seeing this from a more refined and from even a more classy perspective. This can be determined by the tone that the narrator uses which is a patronizing or condescending tone. “Holcomb, too, can be seen from great distances. Not that there is much to see...” In this, he has a sarcastic manner when talking about
The excerpt talks about a small town in Kansas that is irrelevant that even few residents know about. From the beginning, it's apparent that the narrator needs the reader to see Holcomb as a shabby and torn-down town. The narrator, is seeing this from a more refined and from even a more classy perspective. This can be determined by the tone that the narrator uses which is a patronizing or condescending tone. “Holcomb, too, can be seen from great distances. Not that there is much to see...” In this, he has a sarcastic manner when talking about