Actorish. Night-club comedian. Expert lawyer. One of these things is not like the other. So you would think yet Truman Capote reveals these words to describe Logan Green, in the closing argument of the trial scene in “In Cold Blood”. Capote enlightened the reader to how trial cases are won, he conveys this by exposing the emotional and ethical appeals Green secretly incorporates into his argument. One of the best approaches to get someone to trust you is show them you know what your talking about. In his closing argument, Logan Green stealthily does this, first he researched and found that the jury came from a very religion town, therefore he know if he used bible quotes the jurors would sympathise with him more. Consequently, when, according to Capote, Green pretended to close the Bible the juror would trust what he said to be truth without reading it for themselfs- “Green fumbled and seemed to accidentally shut the Bible,...” “ for this was a venerable …show more content…
Green’s dramatic closing argument evokes the jurors to give the dependents the death penalty, Capote mocks this by saying “His voice trembled, toppled, disappeared, as though strangled by the intensity of his own lathing….” The word “strangled” alone is ironic to the whole book by inserting this word it further mocks Logan Green. Capote then unveils a seeming insignificant event “ Green gingerly touched a boil on the back of his neck a mature inflammation that seemed, like its angry wearer about to burst.” However the word “angry wearer” shows how dramatic the production Green was put on was. Furthermore makes
Capotes point on how putting on a show could be in charge of the defendant's life. Truman Capote express his opinion in hidden way like his use of diction. Throughout Green’s argument Capote points out what he believes is wrong with trials, to persuade the reader to believing this