Daniel Burnham

Travel Chicago by Trolley: A New Way to See the Windy City Touring Chicago, a city sprinkled with towering skyscrapers, beautiful 20th century architecture and gorgeous parks can be difficult to navigate by foot. There is simply too much to see. Museums are scattered across Museum Campuses, Navy Pier shines brightly from River North and the popular shopping mecca Michigan Avenue is always cramped with Chicagoans and visitors alike. While are several ways to discover the beautiful city of Chicago

seem to be falling horizontally instead of vertically. The was just the beginning of another tragedy that has happened before, but this time there were a lot more people to be able to witness it at once. “On Monday, shortly after one o’clock, as Burnham supervised repairs and crews removed storm debris form the grounds, smoke began to rise from the cupola of the Cold storage tower, where the fire of June 17 also had taken light.” (301). History seems to repeat once again as if nature really didn’t

People’s fascination with technology has been a huge factor in society since the beginning of civilization, which Erik Larson shows in his book about the 1893 World’s Fair, The Devil in the White City, therefore proving the continued relevance of this nonfiction novel. The Chicago World’s Fair, also known as the Columbian Exposition, put on display many new technologies that would never have been seen by the majority of the world if not for this fair. While celebrating 400 years since Columbus

THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY by Erik Larson is a well-researched book. In order for Larson to accurately depict the events that were presented in the book, he did a lot of research. Larson visited the Graceland cemetery where many of Chicago’s elite’s from that time were enshrined. In the book itself, he included about 35 pages of citations. His research was very thorough and he shows readers evidence of his research. Amongst his citation Larson himself stated that he “did not employ researchers,”

reader forgets he/she read the foreshadowing phrase. One such phrase is, “at this point Burnham believed nothing could tarnish the fair’s triumph or his own place in architectural history” (320). At this point in the book, the record number of visitors at the last world fair in Paris had been shattered, and the fair had made enough money to pay off all the debt. The closing ceremony was not far away, and Burnham believed that nothing could go wrong. This is one way Larson foreshadows, because later

Black and white, good and evil all contrasting elements describing the city of Chicago during the 1893 World’s Fair. In The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson uses tone, figurative language, and juxtaposition in order to portray the drastic dichotomy of the good in the White City and the evil of the Black City within Chicago during the time of the World’s Fair. Larson uses his tone to explain how the people of Chicago view the White City and the Black City they are living in. Larson’s dangerous

In The Devil in the White City excerpt, Eric Larson depicts the trial of H.H. Holmes and dangers associated with him. Larson illustrates this through diction,imagery , and details to paint as Holmes as nearly inhuman. Due to a malicious tone, Larson is writing with the intent of bringing a sense of closure to his audience of fairgoers and others wondering about the irregularities of the Chicago fair. During the first few paragraphs of the excerpt Larson depicts a heartbroken Mrs. Pitezel to a sympathetic

In Ray Bradbury's short story, The City, the protagonist, an abandoned City, finally get revenge that the city has waited to get for twenty thousand years. The City plans to get revenge on the Earthians for killings its people. The City is not a human, rather a city on a planet that is far away from Earth, but the city has a lot of human characteristics. The City has windows for eyes, wind for a nose and ears, and the pavement to measure those who walk on it, the city is alive. The antagonists in

There are many thing to compare and contrast throughout the book, such as Holmes and Burnham. However, a big relationship that shows repetitively throughout the book is the relationship between the opulence and grandeur of the Fair and the poverty and the degradation that surrounded it. The Fair was known as the White City throughout the book, with the large white glistening buildings standing tall throughout the city as they’re being built. It showed it was the best of America and the world had

Within the novel The Devil in the White City the author, Erik Larson, employs several techniques to elevate his writing in order to captivate the interest of the reader. He does this by using different methods and aspects of writing; one can classify these into three main overall groups they are, diction and sentence structure, details and imagery, and figurative language; his methods can best be observed in the passage on pages 238-239 from his novel, and can best be described as an additive description