A Rhetorical Analysis On In Cold Blood

In the book In Cold Blood, Truman Capote tells the tragic story of the Clutter murderers and the victims of the murder in Holcomb, Kansas. After hearing about the murder, Capote felt like this story was perfect to start his new project on. He went to Kansas to interview, meet, and do everything he could to get as much information on this event as possible. The different style choices, perspectives, evidence and descriptions Capote chooses to utilize in telling this story are used to not only help the reader visualize what went on, but to also manipulate the story to tell only what he wants the reader to know as he focuses on explaining his beliefs. Through his work, Capote emphasizes how easily perspectives can be altered or biased when it comes to the
The access he had was unbelieveable and is what made it capable for him to create a story like In Cold Blood. He not only wrote about a murder, he also included the steps and details of what happened after. The capturing of the two boys, Dick and Perry, and their trial probably being the most important. Today, nobody would have been able to do all of what Capote did and that’s what makes this book so special and one of a kind. It is an inside look of a murder, and put together in such a way that the reader feels as if they were actually there as it took place. Capote reconstructs the events and he is able to create suspense and unpredictable empathy. In Cold Blood is a work of art and depicts the easy manipulation that can be formed almost anywhere, especially the unjust criminal system, by outside forces. It also brings up the point of if Dick and Perry were actually held up to the same standard as other people because of their mental illnesses and life circumstances or not. The crime was without reason but meaning is given to it as the story unravels and more is learned about the murder and everyone