Daniel Burnham

Devil in the White City Critique The beauty of cities is that a person can walk by another hundred people all different from the others. In Eric Larson’s book, The Devil in the White City, two individuals walk in Chicago at the same time. One is Daniel Burnham who is the overseer of the 1893 World’s Fair and the other is a charismatic serial killer named H. H. Holmes. Two opposites, the annihilator and the designer, never meet but both transform Chicago and the world forever. Larson builds suspense

the largest population, behind New York City. Daniel Burnham is described as a man with a tough past. Larson mentions that Burnham has a difficulty finding what he will do in the future. John Wellborn Root became Burnham’s side hand one of the men who had lots of power during the creation of each structure for the World’s Fair. Daniel and Burnham and He had features that “drew clients and friends to him the way a lens gathers light” (Larson 26). Burnham was described as a man who was given respect

novel contains two plot lines. The first plotline follows Daniel Burnham. Near the beginning of the book, Burnham is left alone to work on the project after the death of his partner, John Root. Through the rest of the novel, Burnham faces many obstacles that threaten the creation of the World’s Columbian Expo. Despite the challenges that he faced, Burnham persists, and the World's Columbian Expo opened in 1893. After the fair began, Burnham faced many new challenges, such as turning a profit in a

architectural genius Daniel Burnham. H.H Holmes builds a hotel called The World’s Fair Hotel where he kills many of his victims, mostly women. Burnham and his partner, Root, who later died before the construction of the fair even started, were called upon to organize the fair and it’s workers. After Root’s death Burnham was left alone to take charge of the fair and becomes the master of the fair. While going through numerous struggles, Burnham and many other architects create the Fair. Burnham sees the fair

Devil in the White City written by Erik Larson primarily takes place in Chicago between the years 1890-1893. This novel tells the story of Daniel Burnham, an architect in charge of building the Chicago World's Fair, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer who uses the fair to lure his victims. This novel has two major story arcs, one revolves around Daniel Burnham and the other revolves around H.H. Holmes. Burnham's story explains how he strived to build the fair, Holmes' story tells how he began killing

This book details multiple stories where Erik Larson connects them through the events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. The dominant characters, Daniel Burnham and H.H. Holmes never actually meet one another. The novel begins with Daniel H. Burnham, a famous Chicago architect, aboard the Olympia ship during the year of 1912. Burnham has a flashback to the 1893 World’s Fair, in which he was one of the leading architects. He decides to sends a wire message to a fellow friend from the fair

in chicago around the 1800’s and is setting the mood for the upcoming events by listing frequent deaths.It also introduces us to a pharmacist/killer H.H.Holmes. Part 1.Ch 2:We get introduced John Root and his partner Daniel Burnham , along with Daniels wife:Margaret Sherman Burnham and John's wife:Mary Walker(she died so john remarries one of his bridesmaids:Dora Monroe).The flashback gives us information about how Root and

nature. The devil in the white city by Erik Larson, is a literary non fiction about a man named Daniel Burnham, an architect who built the great Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, otherwise known as The World's Colombian Exposition, and the devil serial killer who used the fair to seek out and lure his victims. Larson's novel portrays the ethics and morality of two very different men. The architect, Burnham, who possesses considerably high morals, and the serial killer, Holmes, whose malicious character

handled through this time frame that are addressed in this book is that how Chicago was known to be the black city at first, and how the city hoped that hosting the World’s fair would increase their reputation. Secondly, the magic of a man named Daniel Burnham that did put the plans of the world fair in Chicago into life and the obstacles that he had overcame. Next, once the world fair was complete, it has made Chicago “The White city,” by its dazzling designs and attractions that made it memorable

It happened at the Chicago World’s Fair when the head architect, Daniel Hudson Burnham, attracted so many people to Chicago, missing people went unnoticed. Although through historical records, letters, and documents, we know Burnham and his intentions, were good. In Erik Larson’s, The Devil in the White City, Holmes and Burnham are polar opposite brought together by the Chicago World's Fair. Holmes represents evil while Burnham represents good. However, they do have two things in common, their