The Last to See Them Alive

1.Grain elevators is a part of agriculture, and in the town of Holcomb it is the center of their community. Life revolves farmers and who puts in a sufficient, hard amount of work each day. In ancient Greece, temples were the center of their community. Civilization in Holcomb is orderly and traditional prior to the murders.

2.Capote takes you on a descriptive stroll through Holcomb, Kansas in 1959. Over the course of his description, he includes that agriculture and natural gas are the main sources of incomes in the town. Additionally, the explains their history involving their bank closing in 1933, finally acquired a school, and the fact that all residents are lower and middle class citizens. A sense of unity is portrayed in this opening section among these 260 some odd people. However, Capote ends this section with “as strangers” because it was used in the context that this unity was broken and mistrust spread through the Kansas kin after the Clutter murders.

3.Mr. Clutter’s claims that the only “disquiet” in his life is his wife, Nancy’s poor health. Later on in part one, we are informed of Nancy ‘s postpartum depression after the birth of her first child.

4.Mr. Clutter’s fruit trees are his pride and joy among all other things at River Valley Farm. The text explains how when a disabled plane crashed into his peach tried, Herb was “fit to be tied” and how “the propeller hadn’t stopped spinning before he slapped a lawsuit on the pilot.”

5.The reader can identify a strong change in the author’s narrative voice and sentence structure when the story shifts from the Clutter family to descriptions of Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. While still pertaining to the Clutters, the author executes complex word choice as well as proper punctuation and elegancy. On page 27 while illustrating the differences between Mr.