Figurative Language In Devil In The White City

Have you ever wanted to read about the evanescence of life? In Erik Larson’s educating 2003 nonfiction novel Devil in the White City, set in the City of Chicago during the 1893 World’s Fair, also known as the World’s Columbian Exposition, he tells the side-by-side story of a striving architect and a twisted serial killer. In his work, Larson uses figurative language, imagery, and juxtaposition to capture the serial killer’s, H.H. Holmes, psychotic nature, and explain how those around him find him

novel, A Devil in the White City, published in 2003, he sets the scene around the World’s Fair in Chicago. During this time, the city preoccupies themselves with the new construction and excitement of the fair that it draws away attention from the rather secretive, sly, serial killer, H.H. Holmes. Larson uses figurative language, imagery, and juxtaposition throughout the entire novel to develop just how sinister natured Holmes truly is. Throughout his novel, Erik Larson uses figurative language to reference

Tale of Two Cities Serbian poet, Dejan Stojanovic, once stated, “Devil and God – two sides of the same face.” When looking at Chicago during the Columbian Exposition, there were two sides of Chicago known as the white city and the black city. The white city was the fairgrounds where the World Fair occurred. The black city, however, is the rest of Chicago where the crime, poverty, disease, and filth was represented. Erik Larson constructs the black and white city in Devil in the White City by incorporating

The Devil in the White City Analysis “The sight is so inspiring that all conversation stopped, and all were lost in admiration of this grand sight. The equal of it I have never seen, and i doubt very much if i shall again’” (Larson 271). Erik Larson’s nonfiction novel The Devil in the White City centers around the Chicago World’s Fair, also known as The World’s Columbian Exposition, and two of the men whose lives were intertwined: Daniel Burnham and H. H. Holmes. Daniel Burnham was the chief architect

pride. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson is a nonfiction novel, taking place during the building of the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, also known as The World’s Columbian Exposition. Each chapter of the novel alternates to show the lives of the two real men during this time: the main architect of the fair, Daniel Burnham, and the charming behind the scenes serial killer, H. H. Holmes. In The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson effectively utilizes juxtaposition between “the Black City” and “the

throughout the book. Erik Larson uses tone, imagery, and figurative language in The Devil in the White City in order to express the difference between the two characters motives and goals for the Chicago fair, demonstrating the good and evil in a peaceful time. Larson uses tone to explain the good and bad between Burnham and Homes and to express to the readers how Holmes is the dark while Burnham is the light. “I was born with the devil in me, [Holmes] wrote” (109). Erik Larson wrote this to

DWC Rhetorical Analysis Essay Tucker Max’s famous words state that “the devil doesn’t come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you’ve ever wished for.” H. H. Holmes, a main character in Erik Larson’s 2003 novel titled “The Devil in the White City,” exemplifies Max’s statement. This novel recreates the lives of Daniel Burnham, the architect of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and H. H. Holmes, the mastermind serial killer who takes advantage of the fair to find his victims

nature and man’s relationship to the natural world. For example, Ralph Waldo Emerson was a transcendentalist who believed that people could understand God by studying nature. This was a new way of observing and describing nature. Emerson used figurative language to describe nature in his essay “Nature.” He expresses a strong love of nature when he says, “If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years,

A Devil in the White City, written by Erik Larson, is a novel to remember. Not only does this book entice the ideas and a theme of “good” and “evil”, but Erik Larson, a former staff writer in the Wall Street Journal, also tied in historical events that occurred during the Chicago World Fair of 1893. The purpose of the book, that entices a combination of historical events and other fictional opinions, is to inform the audience of the historical content that occurred in the past and to “fill in the

obvious in the novel. There were also many movements that involved the ideals of Raskolnikov, this helped readers understand his stance of rationalism a little better. b) The city the story was set in was St. Petersburg. This was important because it was the economic hub of Russia. In the novel, the rougher part of the city is highlighted. St. Petersburg was described as dirty, gloomy, full of drunkards and poverty. The epilogue is set in Siberia, which in contrast is pictured as pure and untouched