Rhetorical Analysis Of Truman Capote s The Bedroom Essay

aitlin Mullins Banister Ap Lang 3rd 17 November 2014 Rhetorical Analysis of Truman Capote’s â€Å"Nancy’s Bedroom† Author, Truman Capote, in his Book, In Cold Blood, in the section describing â€Å"Nancy s Bedroom,† writes about what her bedroom looks like, shows her personality, and describes her last day alive. Capote s purpose is to help the reader learn what Nancy was like, so her death has more of an impact on the reader. He adopts a mournful, sympathetic tone in order to explain how innocent Nancy was to his readers. Capote opens his narrative by illustrating how Nancy s bedroom looks. He starts off by using comparison of Nancy s bedroom by describing it as, ... the smallest, most personal room in the house-girlish, and as frothy as a ballerina s tutu. The author first uses a simile to describe her bedroom. The way Capote describes the bedroom lets the reader know she was girly. He then uses two parallels, mentioning, Walls, ceilings, and everything else except a bureau and a writing desk, were pink or blue or white. Capote s description of the bedroom lets the reader know what colors her room was. The descriptions give the reader more of an understanding of how girly and innocent Nancy was. Capote uses imagery throughout the story to give the audience an understanding of how Nancy s bedroom was set up. For example, A cork bulletin board, painted pink, hung above a white started dressing table... and The white-and-pink bed, piled with blue pillows... This