To Kill A Mockingbird Asyndeton Quotes

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Although Capote conveys Holcomb as an even-tempered place, his true intent is to take advantage of its shift to insecurity; therefore he affirms evil corrupts the most perfect of places. Capote uses asyndeton to exemplify the new wicked found in Holcomb. Truman becomes personal with asyndeton, “where Nancy and her mother had been murdered in their beds, they acquired additional fuel for the impending fire --blood-soiled bed clothes, mattresses, a bedside rug, a Teddy-bear doll” (Capote 78). Relating to the Clutters as the elements listed is more personal. The town loses their innocence with the burning of personal items. Holcomb never could have ever imagined having to burn a teddy bear or bloody sheets. Even a town with such purity,