In Cold Blood Essay

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The famous novel In Cold Blood written by nationally acclaimed author Truman Capote tells a story about a 6 individuals. Those 6 have been savagely murdered and author Truman Capote does his best to retell the events in a way that the reader experiences the story almost exactly like how it happened. He adopts a new way of writing called news journalism. He provides the facts as someone who is spitting out information, as well as playing as a narrator who gives us an inside look on how the characters truly act and think. However, Ralph F Voss writes an analysis on how the author facts aren’t all completely right. He goes on to prove this in his book Truman Capote and the legacy of “In Cold Blood” However I as a reader feel that in order for …show more content…
With Ethos, he manages to give the reader the feeling that they can trust him for many reasons. He is an experienced writer that has many other works. Some examples of his award-winning books are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Murder by Death. There have also been many critics that have read has book and have given it a positive review. An example is by the New York Review of Books. “The best documentary account of an American crime ever written… The book chill the blood and exercises the intelligence...harrowing” Truman Capote uses Logos to initiate facts that will help the reader understand the logical portion. Even though he stretches the truth, he manages to create a vivid picture of where, when, and why the events took place. A good example is him describing the setting of where the story takes place. “The distance between olathe, a suburb of Kansas City, and Holcomb. Which might be called a suburb of Garden City, is approximately four hundred miles.(32)” My favorite is Pathos. I love the way how he plays to the emotional side. One example of pathos is how he uses the murder to describe how it is frightening that any person that seems normal can potentially be mentally ill and have tendencies to a crime so horrid. “Dewey, for example, found it difficult to understand "how two individuals could reach the same