In Truman Capotes, In cold blood excerpt he tells the story about the murder of a family who lives in a small town in western Kansas called Holcomb. Capote uses good descriptive details and facts to help the reader get a sense of a imagery and understanding in order to follow the reading. In one section of the excerpt Capote gives away the ending but not to much. It's just enough to keep the reader interested. There are 3 significant sentences that caught my attention that kept me reading.
Sentence 1, "But then, in the earliest hours of that morning in the November, a Sunday morning, certain foreign sounds impinged on the normal nightly Holcomb noises---- on the keening hysteria of coyotes," this sentence creates a sense of mystery it shows that it's leading up to a big moment.
"At the time not a soul in sleeping Holcomb heard them-- four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives. This is sentence 2 and in my opinion it kind of confused me and makes me wounded how four "shotgun blast" kill six people. Sentence 3, "those somber explosions that stimulated fires of mistrust in the glare of which many old neighbors viewed each other strangely, and as strangers." This is significant because by describing the neighbors reaction to the sounds it shows that this type of things doesn't normally happen in the neighborhood so they are shocked. It makes want to Congo the story to find out what took place and why.
No comments:
Post a Comment