"Goodbye to All That" Analytical Essay

Using descriptive diction such as “eerie” and “swamp” readers can imagine an unpleasant city rustling with filth and crime. Larson exposes that Chicago had “auras of mosquitoes” in its midst. Readers automatically see Chicago as a filthy and troublesome town when they associate it with mosquitoes. This view of Chicago created by Larson further achieves his purpose to show the downside of Chicago during the time the World Fair was being constructed and attended. When the World Fair was finished, Larson described the nights, “the lamps that laced every building and walkway produced the most elaborate demonstration of electric illumination ever attempted” (254). Larson says the lamps “laced” the walkways in the white city which allows readers to picture the city in a whimsical way. The feeling of the word “laced” sits with readers in a positive way. Thus, Larson can achieve the purpose of forcing readers to see the white city in a luxurious fashion. Also, Larson mentions that the lighting was “elaborate.” Readers see the white city as a sophisticated and lavish place rather than how they see the black city. Larson again is able to persuade readers into believing the magic of the white city. Larson calls upon imagery to construct the two sides of Chicago.

The attachment “Murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed america” to the title hardly does the novel justice. Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City, a nonfiction novel that surrounds the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, also known as The World’s Columbian Exposition. The novel follows the lives of two real men, Daniel Burnham, the architect who builds the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and H.H. Holmes, the serial killer who exploits the fair to find his victims. Many new inventions were introduced at the fair, such as Juicy Fruit gum, the Ferris Wheel, and many other novel ideas that impacted the lives of many people for generations. The beautiful fair Burnham creates provides the perfect distraction and lure for Holmes’ activities. In his novel The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson suggests that good and evil coexist in the world by using charged language, imagery and juxtaposition to show although people view the fair as a perfect dreamland immune to evil, it still lurks outside in the dark, influencing the rest of the world.

Cleaning up down South: supermarkets, ethical trade and African horticulture is a piece by Susanne Freidberg published in Social and Cultural Geography journal in 2003 (Freidberg, 2003). Susanne Friedberg holds PhD from UC Berkely and is a Professor of Geography in Darmouth College, New Hampshire (“Susanne Freidberg,” n.d.). In the article the author argues that the ethical standards have become fetishised. The UK supermarkets compliance with such standards edges on paranoia. It does not mean that the supermarkets care about these standards from moral point of view but that the compliance is driven by fear of bad

The book The Devil In the White City by Erik Larson re-tells the story of Chicago’s World Fair, while H.H. Holmes, also known as “America’s first serial killer”, emerges as a dark force within the fair. Switching back and forth between the experiences of the head fair administrator, Burnham, and the other directors along with the evils of Holmes, the reader begins to understand the world of tragedy and crime that lies behind the public’s excitement. From a devastating storm to the deaths of multiple builders, suspense builds as tragedy is followed by more tragedy. Through the use of contrasting ideas and ethical clauses highlighted by symbolisms and descriptions within the book, Erik Larson creates an underlying argument that one’s pursuit of pride and success often causes destruction and comes at the price of another’s well-being.

The author uses rhetorical devices in her essay to develop the main idea throughout the paragraphs. She explains her feelings towards loneliness by using allusions and anecdotes. Fox example, she brings up a memory in her past. The boxcar children would be an example of an allusion.(Par 9) These methods all eventually lead up to the author’s point of view, and the main idea of course.

The diverse characters within the story represent various views and ideas in a symbolic manner. "The lottery was conducted-as were the square dances, the teen-age club, the Halloween program-by Mr. Summers, who had time and

When acknowledging the turnout of Chicago’s fair, Larson uses figurative language to demonstrate the contesting forces of good and evil and to examine the extent to which Chicago stretched the fair’s potential. Larson writes, “Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world” (30). Larson uses personification when he says that “Chicago has disappointed her enemies…” and is giving Chicago a human behavior. This strategy emits a positive connotation to the reader . The use of figurative language makes the reader look at Chicago as having achieved a great honor by hosting the fair. It also shows that Chicago can create something so miraculous in a time of such hardship and need for ingenuity and amidst the evil waiting within the shadows of the White City. When describing the tension in the top floor of the Rookery while the architects were revealing their drawings for the fair, Larson writes “As the light began to fade, the architects lit the library’s gas jets, which hissed like mildly perturbed cats” (115) and he uses figurative language to help the reader grasp the importance and anticipation of this moment. By comparing the library’s gas jets to “mildly perturbed cats,” the reader gains a sense of agitation, anticipation, and the anxiety that the architects were feeling in that moment. Larson creates a negative and rather comforting connotation by using this simile to describe the room’s tension. The way that Larson describes this moment leads the reader to imagine it to be

“Bye Bye Birdie”, a musical by Michael Stewart is about a vastly known rock star, Conrad Birdie, who gets drafted by the army, causing a frantic ruckus within his fan base. The news of him being drafted spreads far and wide and though his fans march against it, there is nothing they can do. Meanwhile, a struggling songwriter whose song was supposed to be featured in Birdies upcoming movie, begins to plunge into a frenzy, since this feature was supposed to be his rise to fame, in a way. Seeing that he will no longer have a song in Birdies movie, Rosa, Alberts lover and longtime girlfriend, goes on a mission to somehow give him the break he deserves. Thus, she plans and plans and eventually she devises an idea. Albert will write a song

Our Time is one great example of an essay that exemplifies the use of different literary devices, which helps us as readers connect with him as a writer even better.

If you examine the pop charts from 30 years ago, it is hard to identify many artists who’ve managed to stay relevant into today’s generation. Weird Al, is one artist that has been active in the music industry since the mid 1970’s and has been able to keep up with the times way before the dawn of social media, online media, and vlogging. For his most recent album, Weird Al designed a creative advertising strategy for the digital age with his #8videos8days experiment. This strategy included eight videos in eight days for eight songs from the new album — on a variety of sites ranging from

In, “The ‘F’ Word” by Firoozeh Dumas, the author explains her and her family’s difficulties moving to a new place. She just wanted to fit in and not have people make fun of her like her brothers. She wrote the narrative essay to inform her readers that everything comes with its difficulties but sometimes you just have to do whatever it takes to overcome them. She showed many examples of Rhetorical strategies throughout the essay, she uses ethos, pathos, compare and contrast. She showed many examples of Rhetorical strategies throughout the essay like ethos.

In the memoir Year of Impossible Goodbyes, Sookan changes from someone's who is naive and scared and becomes someone who is strong, brave and selfless. The changes seen were in these three moments: when the Japanese yelled at her and her family, and when she saw what the Japanese had done to her grandfather, when she sits outside and tries to meditate, and when she saves her brother instead of herself. The Japanese would come to her house and yell at her mother, Aunt and Grandfather. When she finds out what the Japanese do to Grandfather she also gets scared. "The tips of his toes looked like some little girl had practiced her sewing on them. He had no toenails. I knew he had no fingernails on his right hand, and I always thought he had hurt

To further support this apparent family-friendly activity, Jackson has the lottery conducted by Mr. Summers because he “had the time and energy to devote to civic activities”(251). She goes on to explain that Mr. Summers conducts all civic activities such as square dances, the Halloween program, and the teenage club. By comparing the lottery to activities one would normally associate with fun and pleasurable experiences, further shields the reader from the ominous series of events about to unfold. Inevitably, the reader experiences an emotional roller coaster ride of confusion followed by

Many authors use rhetorical devices as a way to convey a theme. In the works ¨Which of These Essay Questions is the Real Thing?¨ by Alexander Schneider and ¨What I Really Wanted to Write in My Admissions Essays¨ by Rachel Toor, both authors use irony and exaggeration to appeal to pathos.Their appeals to pathos are humorous, proving the ridiculous nature of the college admissions process, especially the crafting of college admissions essay.

Okay, so the food is the best thing ever; but, for now, let's talk about those hyper-addictive state fair games! You see people literally jumping and shouting with excitement when playing fair games. After the rides and before you get to the food, you have to make it through the midway and listen to the workers of the fair games yelling to get your attention so that you can play their games. I’m a competitor, so I have to give some of the games a try. They are your