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in the White City by Erik Larson is a nonfiction novel, taking place during the building of the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, also known as The World’s Columbian Exposition. Each chapter of the novel alternates to show the lives of the two real men during this time: the main architect of the fair, Daniel Burnham, and the charming behind the scenes serial killer, H. H. Holmes. In The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson effectively utilizes juxtaposition between “the Black City” and “the White City

In Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson utilizes the idea of a “devil” during a time of when Chicago was prospering to showcase the evil lurking behind the mirage of wealth and beauty. The speaker is a third person omniscient narrator who has known about Burnham and Holmes life Chicago in the late-nineteenth century. The audience is intended for readers who enjoy non-fiction thriller novels or wants to know about the historical event from different viewpoints. The purpose is to entertain the audience

The White City, built in Chicago for the World’s Fair, gilded Chicago, a growing city dealing with sickness, death, fire, and man on man crime. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson goes in depth with both sides of this era in America. The story covers both Daniel H. Burnham, an architect with a major role in designing and managing the creation of the fair, and Dr. H.H. Holmes, a serial killer that relayed on aliases and prayed on women and those most vulnerable in the up and coming city of Chicago

became active in participating and forming charities as well as advocating for progressive reforms. In addition, urbanization in the late 19th century allowed women to play a bigger role in society. As evidenced in Larson’s novel, The Devil In The White City, women contributed to the economy and participated in the workforce. They “sought work as typewriters, stenographers, seamstresses, and weavers” (Larson 11). No longer were young women relegated to the house. Women began to advocate for ideas that

time in American history. The overall fame of the World’s Columbian Exposition, or also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, is in large part due to the spread of ideas and inventions that originated at the fair itself. The novel, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, depicts a clear portrait of the fair’s impact in the time leading up to, during, and after the exposition. The fair established itself as a metaphorical historical monument, in the way that it honored the past and served as a memorial

Devil in the White City does not only tell an elaborating true story, but it tries to grab the reader to believe that they are actually living in 1893 during the Chicago World’s Fair trials and tribulations. To tell this story, Larson combines qualities of a nonfiction book and a generic novel to successfully craft a narrative built on historical facts, therefore developing distinct persons in the cases and elaborating on what their possible feelings were. The Devil in the White City is extended

Erik Larson’s book Devil in the White City is full of magic and madness that has shaped the society of the late 19th century that is specific to in Chicago. The issues that have been 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

the 1893 exposition was intended to be an ideological display and a model of what a world’s fair could accomplish through urbanized city planning and the establishment of a nationalist identity. The fair was also known as the “White City”, for its white neoclassical facades that when illuminated by the electric streetlights emitted a white glow. The use of a white color palette was symbolic as it subliminally produced and sustained prejudices against non-western races and cultures under the pretense

In the text of the novel, The Devil in the White City the statement “why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow” (Larson xi) is evident. Some men choose to engage the impossible because life is short and if you don’t challenge yourself then what’s the point of living. The other side of the spectrum is the people who decide to be cynical throughout their life and feel that they won’t be able to do anything special because

the White City, recounts a defining time period for America. Larson sheds light on the ageless conflict: Good v.s. Evil, as he recounts the events that took place at the fair that changed America. With America falling behind in global dominances and its need to strive, Daniel Burnham tries to successfully construct the Chicago World's fair and hopes it will spark the turn of the century. As Burnham tries to builds up the White City, and while H. H. Holmes flourished in the dominant Black City, Larson