In Truman Capote’s novel In Cold Blood, the reader finds themselves in a small town in Kansas by the name of Holcomb. Holcomb, as the author describes it, appears to be a small and seemingly abandoned town with very little going on. The stores have their signs, yet they no longer shine with their previous neon wonder. Nothing stops in Holcomb, not the express trains, nor the passenger trains. Despite all of these shortcomings, the town has a very modernized school. The school sticks out like a needle in a haystack in this small and dusty town. Where the town appears old and ramshackled, Capote describes the school as modernized and able staffed. Capote uses imagery to sensationalize to the reader that this town is exceptionally boring. Capote