Submitted by terryashby on December 6, 2007

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Capote'S Techniques In Person'S Unknown

Capote is very unique in his writing style and this is something we can come to expect in what he describes as the first non-fiction novel ever written. It must be considered when reading In Cold Blood that some items in the book are not the prose of Capote yet actual statements and accounts; they are of course open to manipulation from his own choice of how much and where he shows them to us. There is a fantastic level of imagery in Capote’s writing but that is created not via elaborate description but by an honest and simple creation of an ordinary environment.

The first and most prominent technique we see in the novel and this section is Capote’s ability to tell the...

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