Structure

The way Capote has interperted structure in his excerpt gives the reader a more detailed and organized view of Holcomb, Kansas. The author starts off by describing the Middle West/Kansas as a whole as he then transitions to Holcomb which then shifts to the buildings and then the shift moves to the way of the town. His structure moves from general to specific in his description of Holcomb. For example, his general statement is that "Holcomb, like all the rest of Kansas, is 'dry'." in his fourth paragraph. As he specifies deeper though to his fifth paragraph he states, "Unless you include, as one must, the Holcomb school, a good-looking establishment...that the appearance of the comunity otherwise camoflauges...." From the first and the second paragraph Capote contrasts Colorado with Holcomb; "Some seventy miles east of the Colorado border...with its hard blue skies and desert-clear air...." As he then transitions to say that "Holcomb, too, can be seen from great distances. Not that there is much to see-" In his words shown here he is contrasting with the reader how in Holcomb there isn't much to see, but this may be seen as a general statment as he soon uses spatial in his structure in future paragraphs. He describes the space of the people and objects and how they're described; "The farm ranchers in Finney County of which Holcomb, of which Holcomb is part, have done well...."