Daniel Burnham

giving him “sexual release” which he seemed to enjoy dearly.. There was another story of a man who goes by Burnham who was given the opportunity to build the World’s Fair that would show that nobody can top America and they will not feel humiliated. But during Burnham’s journey in building the World’s Fair he had faces many complications. Furthering into the story, Larson correlates Burnhams and Holmes stories together to show how different their characteristics display the two sides of

facilitated several serial homicides, and it’s very structure is highly representative of Mudgett himself and the construction aspect of the world’s fair. The Castle was the strongest connection between half of the book about the engineering by Daniel Burnham and the string of manslaughters by Henry Mudgett. Henry Mudgett built The Castle with its function in mind. He designed it himself to have

ideals. Larson will introduce the main character Daniel Burnham and his connection with the 1893 Chicago World Fair and the foreshadowing of many death within the chapters. Throughout the book, Larson will be discussing that evil exists in the American city during the time of the fair. He also explains about an orderly pattern throughout the book, the comparison of the themes of good and evil and the city as a cover-up of many murdering during Daniel Burnham lives, and another character live, a crazy serial

great failures and successes of the United States. The story takes place a few years before and during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition (World’s Fair) in Chicago. Larson focuses on the stories of Daniel Burnham, the director at the exposition, and Dr. H.H. Holmes, a serial killer. Daniel Burnham shows how America is a land of opportunity, and even in the face of many hardships succeeds in his goal of having a successful exposition. The Devil in The White City reflects the extremes of character

the topic of good and evil will be shown throughout the novel. Numerous authors use direct and indirect characterization to form a character’s personality. Larson initially introduces the characters’, Daniel H. Burnham and H.H. Holmes, disposition, through their words, actions, and relationships. Burnham is a man with wisdom beyond his years, who strongly believed in dreaming big and working hard to achieve successes throughout his life.

numbers of rich citizens tried to build the buildings but they weren’t building but 2-3 of them. As tensions rose in Chicago. The plan of the fair got more complicated. Burnham and Root continued to get their jobs finished before people from foreign countries arrive. It took longer for them to build with technology of 1893. Burnham who was the lead architect and Root another architect. Are working together to finish the fair project. Which they both said that “the fair is the biggest project they`ll

multiple murders caused by H.H. Holmes. The book is structured between the two backgrounds of the architect of the World Fair, Daniel Burnham, and the murderer H.H. Holmes.The author separates the timeline of events into four parts to get from the architect and Holmes arriving at the Fair being over and Holmes’ trial.In the prologue it’s mostly about the architect Mr. Burnham, is trying to prove that Chicago is just as established as other cities like NYC and Washington D.C to the rest of the world

galaxy not so far away. A single goal became a widespread plague that swept the United States like a fire in a dry summer field: they must “out-Eiffel Eiffel” and create the best exposition the world has ever seen. The novel follows architect Daniel Burnham and his ventures in creating history’s greatest world fair, or one to at least regain the pride the engineers of America lost to France when the Eiffel tower captured the awe of all who bore witness. There are encounters of many unforeseen obstacles

Columbus’ expedition in which he discovered the Americas. Larson researched the recorded information from letters sent and other works and tried to fill in the gaps of what may have happened. The two main plot points the book follows are that of Daniel Burnham, an architect working to make the fair happen, and H. H. Holmes, a serial killer who is using the fair to his advantage. The book also explores the Black City of Chicago and what holding the world’s fair would bring to Chicago given the context

distinct diversity of good and evil can be found in characters like Daniel Burnham and Dr. H. H. Holmes, and through them, the inevitable conflict between good and evil occurs. Furthermore, Burnham has the passion to succeed in architecture in hopes of building the White City. “He found his calling, he wrote in 1868, and told his parents he wanted to become the ‘greatest architect in the city or country’ ”(Larson 19). Burnham has a dream to be the best, and he uses his passion for a respectable