In the story “In Cold Blood” Truman Capote uses a tone of “somber” by expressing how death causes the reflection of life. Capote uses the word "life", something that we all know is a grave matter that we wouldn't want to lose. The confrontation towards the man’s feelings of the passing of the Clutter family makes him feel melancholy. He says “it was a melancholy task” knowing that Kenyon was no longer there to help. He and Herb had a “got along grand” never a cross word between them. “Nancy’s horse forlornly waiting in a field, the odor of windfall apples rotting under the apple trees, and the absences of voices...” explains how quiet it is without the Clutter family and gives detail by saying the absences of voices. He also didn’t understand