In Cold Blood Capote Rhetorical Analysis

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Have you ever felt sympathetic for a criminal? Throughout the novel, Capote displays Smith’s conflicts using a technique called pathos. Capote’s intent for using this piece of rhetoric device was to target the audience by appealing to their emotions with sympathy for Perry’s misfortunate life. Due to the catastrophic events that occurred during his childhood, Smith had no choice but to preserve unlawful actions in which it deteriorated his successful dream.

During Smith’s early years, he suffered an abominable childhood where he had to witness his family dissolving. “It was not long afterward my mother put me to stay in a Catholic orphanage. The one where the Black Widows were always at me. Hitting me. Because of wetting the bed”. Perry’s