Pathos For In Cold Blood

The exigence of In Cold Blood comes from the brutal murder of Mr.Clutter, his wife and, two youngest children. The reason for the killings are not known unlike the killers themselves, so the reader thrives off that suspense. Audience:
In Cold Blood is not a mystery, the killers are known from the start. The “non-fiction novel,” combines the materials of journalism with the techniques of naturalistic fiction. Capote imagined his readers would be people who kept up with contemporary trends in literature, like readers of The New Yorker magazine, not just people who liked to read about gruesome murders.
Purpose:
Capote himself said that the purpose for In Cold Blood was to test the artistic merit of journalism. Critics, educators, and others

The prosecution's arguments are based upon images of the crime scene and authorities familiar to the audience and capable of creating consubstantiality with the prosecutor's audience.
Pathos:
Capotes primary appeals is to his readers emotions. There shock and fear in the Holcomb citizens after the murder of the Clutters, but also pity for the remaining Clutters, Evanna and Beverly. There also seemed to be pity and empathy for Perry after the reveal of his childhood.
Ethos:
In Capote’s summation before the jury, the prosecutor uses ethical appeals to destroy an appearance of intelligence, good character, or good will in the murderers and simultaneously enhances the appearance of these qualities in the Clutters and in himself. Tone: Since four well-loved people in the town of Holcomb have just been brutally murdered, a tone of grieving sets in the early pages of the book. The anger in the book comes almost completely in first-person reports. In between the methodical descriptions of the investigation, townspeople vent their anger at the killers and the killers rage against the unfairness of life.

Much of the book has a third person narrator. It gives the narrator access to thoughts of all the characters. Capote generally reserves the right to take the wheel of narration, as it were, when there is a stunning descriptive moment to be served up to the reader. Although it is Capote's third person narrator who tells most of the novel's story, he turns over the novel's most compelling scenes—the story of the murder, the story of Susan Kidwell and Nancy Ewalt when they first find Nancy's body, the story of the execution of Perry and Dick—to characters within the story. It's Perry Smith who tells the story of the murder.

Use of Outside Sources: Truman Capote uses many first hand accounts in his novel. He also gets many interviews from people who worked the case, were friends with the Clutters and from the killers themselves. Capote uses his sources almost all the time. He uses their dialogue and their actions as they told him. He uses newspaper headlines and the dates of the paper. The sources adds a sense of realism to the story. The novel itself is almost to gruesome to be true, like an episode of CSI, but with the quotes and actual evidence and horrific retellings, the story seems to come to life.

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