Truman Capote's In Cold Blood was a story aimed to be the true story of 2 men Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith. The book is designed to convey a novel while telling a realistic story of the murder of a Clutter. Capote's writing story leans to using the rhetorical analysis of pathos throughout his entries with slight hints of logos, trying to sway the reader that the cold blooded criminals aren't completely soulless.
Capote utilizes pathos throughout the passage by utilizing logos to give a sense of empathy towards the 2 convicts in his story of the 2 killers as he views the two with their lives before and after their murder cases. He further emphasizes this as he tells of how one time they had to sleep in a cold barn overnight and how Perry was really hungry. He uses this as an appeal to how people are desperate and homeless or hungry in desperate times and shows the idea of how people don't have a choice when they're desperate. |