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Please break your essay up into the following component parts, highlighting the various parts of each paragraph as follows:

Thesis: dark blue Topic sentence: red Opinion/analysis: light blue Supporting detail:purple Commentary: green Transitions: pink

Introduction: Truman Capote views Holcomb, Kansas as an ordinary, dull place. He conveys these views through the use of certain diction, detailed imagery, and with a formal attitude that helps create a critical tone in the passage.

Body Paragraphs: Capote's diction helps establish his views on Holcomb because they help describe how Holcomb is. He uses words such as "dry" and "'flat" to describe the village as a whole, which shows that he views the village as being ordinary and boring. He further describes parts of the village, such as when he is describing the streets as simply dust, that is unnamed and unpaved.

Capote uses imagery to show his view on Holcomb being dull multiple times in his passage. He uses the literary device personification to firther develop an image about Holcomb, such as when he writes about the depot, and it being "melancholy" and "falling apart". This helps describe the Holcomb as dull and boring because it shows that its falling apart at places and has flaws. Capote writes how "the majority of Holcomb homes are one-story frame-affairs, with front porches." This description helps show that Holcomb doesn't have much variety in it, and is very ordinary.

Capote's tone in the passage seems to be a critical one. He seems to be critical of the way Holcomb is, he describes it as "flat", "dry", and the streets and much else alike are "unnamed, and unpaved". It seems as though he views this as a bad thing that Holcomb doesn't have much variety. After his description of Holcomb, he writes,"and that really, is all." He may have left out some minor details about Holcomb, but all in all, it is dry, ordinary, and boring, with nothing much extra to it. His critical tone helps establish his view on Holcomb being dull.

Conclusion: Capote's view on Holcomb was a dull, boring one. He uses certain elements like diction, imagery, and tone to help support his view. He uses diction to help convey his view by using specific words to describe Holcomb. HIs imagery and description about Holcomb helps lead the reader to the fact that the city is dull. His established tone helps show his view on Holcomb because he seems to critique it and write about its flaws.