A Town in the Ruins Although Capote begins by conveying Holcomb as a simple, unknown place hidden ¨out there¨, he then portrays Holcomb as a distraught town that has been changed for the worst; therefore pinpointing that small-town murders are substantial in altering the movement and livelihood of any town, as it can become a murder itself. As to illustrate the events, Capote uses descriptive and parallel structure to describe the shift Holcomb has experienced after the taste of pure evil washed through. As Capote describes an occurrence on the Sixteenth of November, ¨..the quartet of old hunting companions had once again gathered to make the familiar journey, but in an unfamiliar spirit and armed with odd, non-sportive equipment--mops and …show more content…
Dewey unveils his present thoughts of the killer(s) through a unique polysyndeton vocalizing, ¨In the former, the murderer was thought to be a friend of the family, or, at any rate, a man with more than casual knowledge of the house and its inhabitants--someone who knew that the doors were seldom locked, the Mr. Clutter slept alone in the master bedroom on the ground floor, that Mrs. Clutter and the children occupied separate bedrooms on the second floor,¨ (Capote 82). Dewey is the magnifying glass that his team needs to find this cold-blooded killer as he piles on all of the details to create a more dramatic effect. He begins predictions on the strange occurrences to help this town breathe normally again, which would be any officers job during this situation. Capote writes to tell a tricolon, another account of a phone call that didn't seem to affect Dewey´s son, Paul, ¨But at breakfast that morning he´d burst into tears. His mother had not need to ask him whey; she knew that although he understood only hazily the reasons for the uproar around him, he felt endangered by it---by the harassing telephone and the strangers at the door. And his father's worry-wearied eyes¨ (Capote 104). The murders that occurred are beginning to prove that even the strongest people can be broken, broken enough to express it irrationally. The rhetoric used