Daniel Burnham

book, The Devil in the White City, as David Burnham and H.H. Holmes provide two contrasting personality types. Holmes, a psychopath, is extremely dangerous and lethal while on the other hand, Burnham is hardworking and is in the midst of doing a great honor for the city of Chicago. The juxtaposition of good and evil in the book is evident as Larson trades off characters. Quote 1 and quote 2 develop show the disparity between Burnham and Holmes as Burnham is doing something honorable for the city

wives stayed at the home front to take care of their children and husbands. This can be seen where Burnham and Holmes were a professional architecture and doctor respectively. Other men who had careers in the book included architects like Hunt, George Post, Louis Sullivan, etc. Women, on the other hand, are mostly portrayed as homemakers’ examples being most of Holme’s wives, Clara, Mryna, etc.Even Burnham wife Margaret is left behind at their home where she takes care of their five children. Gender

novel The Devil in the White City, Author Erik Larson uses imagery, irony, and juxtaposition to parallel the good and evil sides of the city of Chicago during the 1893 World’s Fair. Larson takes a more upbeat, joyous tone while following the story of Burnham and the architects designing the World Fair, but the tone turns much darker when perspectives change and we follow the plot of H.H. Holmes, America’s first known serial killer. Using rhetorical devices like imagery, diction, and syntax, Larson is

The Ghost map, written by Steven Johnson and published in 2006, was about an outbreak of cholera because of the lack of sanitation. A five-month-old girl began the outbreak of 1854 when she fell ill from water drawn from a public pump in the city square. Her mother washed out her clothing and dumped the water into the cesspool, spreading the cholera bacteria into the river where it then contaminated the drinking water. This book is a tale of how two men changed the course of the largest city ever

The World’s Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was an event held in Chicago from May to October of 1983. The fair was created to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s discovery of the New World. The fair was designed to celebrate American innovation as well as bring together the American public and expose them to a multitude different ideas and cultures. One aspect of the fair was the abundance of living museum exhibits, which had people from other cultures going

completely different perspectives. Because of these differentiating perspectives, this impacts people’s views on the city negatively and positively. In the novel, Erik Larson showed parallelism through two characters: H.H. Holmes and Burnham. Larson directly mentions how Burnham is “...one of the greatest architects…”, The reason he wrote this is to show how intellectually capable he is. Unlike many of his partners, he didn’t come from a prestigious college. However he shows that he is capable to build

to check in. This of course made Minnie only jealous as Holmes effortlessly made them swoon. But the fair is full of wonders, from the first zipper to the United States made completely out of pickles, the fair had it all. Visitors flocked it, but Burnham still had a deep fear the as the fair went on, the amount of visitors would go down and they would slowly loose money, not being able to pay off the debt that the fair had raised, which was more twice the amount that they had imagined it would be

(P) The debates are prevalent of the evil that largely takes responsible for the events occuring in the novel Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. (CE) Erik Larson writes the novel in very simplistic terms (DE) “She walked upstairs. The day was hot. Flies rested on the wind sill. Outside yet another train rumbled through the intersection” (Larson 37). (FA) The more simplistic the writing, despite the connotative meaning, allows for the further exploration of a deeper theme. Without the distraction

In the book of The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson, there are four protagonist who are Doctor John Snow, Reverend Henry Whitehead, Cholera, and London. London is known for being sophisticated and far advance than most cities in the 1800s. London was a city where population density doubles within years. In the book, Johnson refers London as a character even though it not a human, but rather an identity to represent every single human that lives within London. For Cholera to exist it needed London’s population

illustrate, that ambition can break one or make one and everything is not what it seems. Larson’s style is to add to irreverent stories together so that the two major protagonists highlight each other’s traits, one trait is their ambition. Both Holmes and Burnham are ambitious but in two