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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:

Through an excerpt of Turman Capote's novel In Cold Blood he writes of a little town in Kansas names Holcomb. Although it may seem like a small deserted town, the way Capote uses imagery and diction to state his view of the city, it may seem that there is something else he desires in the city and may see its true beauty. Through his stream of conscienceness ﻿ he presents the reader with something more of the city; maybe that it had great potential, even as a dusty road. Body Paragraphs: In the excerpt he first views the county as "lonesome" and "out there." He describes that "the land is flat and the views are awesomely extensive...." As we all know, Kansas is a dry, almost deserted, place. No one really describes their views that it has "hard blue skies and desert-clear air." He then goes on to describe the towns and its people "numbering two-hundred and seventy." Even throughout his excerpt he uses diction and imagery to present his views. Such diction he presents is his view of the "consolidated school" and the land that is "awesomely extensive." As he uses words such as "awesome", "consolidated", and "lonesome" it places the reader with a different perspective of the town. As the same when he describes a place as a "ramshackle mansion." He uses some negative and positive words to describe the city but also great imagery so the reader has the picture in their mind.

"At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign -Dance-...." Now the reader has had an image in their mind of the building he has described instead of just probably saying "there was building that had a sign that read -Dance- on top." With his use of description words such as "stark" "old" and "stucco", the reader gets a better feel of it. He then describes such animals that live there as "horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them."

Conclusion:

With Capote's diction, imagery, and different ways to describe his view of Holcomb we see a new image of the city. We read the little details that average people miss on a daily basis. Even if the city is "content to exist inside ordinary life."