First and most obviously, he titles the opening section "The Last to See Them Alive." Additionally, he describes the last day of Clutter family in great detail, always mentioning that it is their last. For example, he writes that Clutter "headed for home and the day's work, unaware that it would be his last." This counterbalances the fact that the reader knows the outcome of the story from the beginning. Because the Clutter murder and the subsequent trial actually happened, they were public knowledge, and so his contemporary readers knew the details of the case before they started the novel. Therefore, Capote emphasizes the coming deaths instead of making them surprises. Truman Capote is the master of description. Holcomb comes alive in the mind of the reader when Capote talks about the rural location, bucolic landscape and small town feel of the Kansas town. One can almost smell the hay and fresh biscuits baking in the oven. This is the type of town in which no one locks their doors and everyone is a neighbor. It is classic small town America. Then Capote reveals that there were multiple murders that changed the town forever, causing people to lock their doors and to cast suspicion on everyone they see. The way he describes the town of Holcomb and Its location, decrypting the landscape and the small town feel you always see out on the plain flat lands of Kansas. A sense of impending murder and doom was coloured by when they were in the car and talking about committing the murders, and when they were in the store buying duct-tape and rope and gloves, and when they got back in the car, Perry asked where the socks were and Dick said they didn’t have any black one and besides there’s not going to be any witnesses. He lays it out like a map in describes in detail what’s going on in the gloomy town. He just describes it as a small knit community that hasn’t had any