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Use Of Imagery In Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

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Holcomb, Kansas. (Seen as a lonesome area that other than Kansas calls “out there,” by author Truman Capote in the novel “In Cold Blood.”) Capote adopts strong imagery to characterize the small wasteland that the people of Holcomb call home. He views Holcomb almost as a cemetery, where the town is dead. He paints the reader living in this town, and uses an oxymoron to state to the reader that not everything is a peaceful as it might seem. Right off of Route 50, Holcomb is viewed as a ghost town. The author, Capote, uses the reader's vision to paint the scene. He ventures through the rundown main street of Holcomb, even using dashes to point out important parts of the town. He does when he explains the bank “dirty window-HOLCOMB BANK.” His
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