I wanted to comment on the writing techniques that I found that Capote used to really guide the reader into the initial suspense and sympathy. I found that Capote used an interesting tool, Parallel scenes. In this part of the narrative, Capote used the short chapter lengths to their full effect. for example, it is used when he goes from present time of the Clutters before the murder to when the chapters come quicker, like brief, alternating glances as Dick and Perry near the River Valley Farm. This heightens the sense of simultaneity. It is as if the mind's eye were quickly toggling back and forth between a view of the Clutter home and one of the approaching black Cadillac. Capote presents the description of the brutal killings of the Clutter family in a journalistic style, and is able to exclude his point of view on the event. Also he takes on a reporters voice as well, this is where he tells factual details of each character and the murder verses a storytellers point of view where he gives description to the setting and the different emotions of not only the Clutters but the inhabitants of Holcomb as well. Capote also used the skill called 'double vision'. Double vision gives the reader another take on something the author already touched on before. An example of double vision was when Capote gave us two views of Holcomb, the majestic side and empty, ghost town- like view.