Rhetorical Devices In Cold Blood

“Alvin, are you lighting another cigarette? Honestly, Alvin, can’t you at least try to sleep?”
He was too tense to sleep, even if the telephone could be silenced—too fretful, and frustrated. None of his “leads” had led anywhere, except, perhaps, down a blind alley toward the blankest of walls. Bobby Rupp? The polygraph machine had eliminated Bobby. And Mr. Smith, the farmer who tied rope knots identical with those used by the murderer—he, too, was a discarded suspect, having established that on the night of the crime he’d been “off in Oklahoma.” Which left the Johns, father and son, but they had also submitted provable alibis. “So,” to quote Harold Nye, “it all adds up to a nice round number. Zero.” Even the hunt for the grave of Nancy’s cat

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote was a murder case that left readers captivated. The passage that had been selected, ran from pages 121-123. The author had used several textual features in order to portray a feeling and message upon the reader. In this passage, the reader can see the realization that Dewey’s had faced, between the conceptions between good vs. evil. This concept had been clearly brought to the light of the reader in this passage. The author’s tone makes the readers feel empathetic for the inevitable downward spiral of a morally good man due to harsh circumstance, conditions, and experiences. The mood set by the author in the passage displays that it is the last major act Perry will deliver to be seen as someone who is not entirely a bad person. Therefore, Capote further deepens our sincerity and empathy felt towards Perry. Dewey comes to this conclusion when they realize the Kenyon’s radio was missing so this was not just a “plain

In my opinion, although the book was not as exciting as I would have hoped for it to be, I do recommend this book to peers. It has a variety of thought provoking questions and had many forms of symbolism that I believe are important questions and concepts to think about. Although, Perry and Dick were murderers and that in itself is extremely ill-willed, throughout the novel the reader can see, more specifically, in Perry that maybe he was not as bad as a person as one would think. The contrast between good vs. evil can be seen in the main characters, Perry and Dick. I can connect with this novel and Perry, although I have not taken those extremes, I feel as if we are very similar. Constant contemplation, self doubt, and being unable to succeed are all aspects that both Perry and I have in common. It is apparent that throughout the novel that Perry comtemplates between what is moral and what is not, however he let his greed and pain take over him. Through the symbolism of the yellow bird, we see from a dream Perry has that he is misguided and miserable in with his current state. “Another method of escape, suicide, replaced them in his musings...One night he dreamed that he’d unscrewed the bulb, broken it, and with the broken glass cut his wrists and ankles. ‘I felt all breath and light leaving me,’ he said, in subsequent description of his sensations, ‘The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird,’” The yellow bird, is in fact the very