What patterns and repetitions do you notice?

In the novel In Cold Blood, the author, Truman Capote, uses a unique writing tool to make greater the insight of the reader. Capote uses Double Vision in In Cold Blood to help the reader gain a more 3-dimensional or well rounded perspective of the characters, settings, actions, etc... There are multiple cases throughout the first section of the novel where Capote uses double vision, mainly to show one subject with two contrasting attributes. One such case being where Capote starts describing the setting, Kansas, with grandeur and then suddenly begins to write in a condescending way about the Kansan city of Holcomb, “The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them. Holcomb, too, can be seen from great distances. Not that there is much to see – simply an aimless congregation of buildings divided in the center by the main-line tracks of the Santa-Fe rail road, a haphazard hamlet bounded on the south by a brown stretch of Arkansas (pronounced “Ar-kan-sas”) River, on the north by a highway, Route 50, and on the east and west by prairie lands and wheat fields” (3). The first half of the quote is spent in admiration and awe of “majestic Kansas”, being described as having grain elevators like Greek temples, and awesome, extensive views. Clearly capote is trying to show Kansas in a light that makes the reader appreciate Kansas. However, the second part of the quote is contractual to the first. Capote proceeds in describing little Holcomb in a way that is conflicting with the first half of the quote. Holcomb is looked at as a dirty, worn down little “town”, a town so nominal that no one bother learn about it. In some ways, this description seems as though its motive is now to downplay Kansas, to take away its splendor and majesty. There are two very different descriptions of Kansas, each trying to sway the reader’s opinion. One shows Kansas in greatness, and the other, as a disappointment to society. Capote uses double vision and expresses both sides of Kansas so that the reader won’t have a provincial, one sided view of Kansas in the story. The double vision is meant to give the reader a perspective that encompasses both the splendid side of Kansas and the shameful side of Kansas.