World's Columbian Exposition

during the building of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, known as The World’s Columbian Exposition as well. The novel describes the process of building the fair and the architect who builds it to the evil murderer who exploits the fair to lure in his victims. Erik Larson uses rhetorical strategies such as selective connotation and word choice, imagery, and juxtaposition, to contrast the white city from the black city. Contrary to the white city which was the exposition, the black city, the rest of Chicago

based on the building of the most important fair in the United States of America, the 1893 Columbian Exposition World’s Fair in Chicago. Erik Larson also told the story of the psychopathic murderer; H.H. Holmes used his World’s Fair Hotel as an evil castle to lure in young women who came to see the fair. The story starts off with Larson describing that Chicago won the Congressional vote to host the World’s Fair and beat out its competition New York City. In only two short years, the White City was

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson explores the creation of the World’s Columbian Exposition. Larson narrates the two intertwining stories of murderer H.H Holmes and 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

the bid on the 1893 Columbian Exposition. Daniel Burnham and John Root became the architects to build the fair. Burnham and Root encountered many obstacles that threatened the success of the fair. Root died early on, which left Burnham alone. Burnham wanted to build something that was more amazing than the Eiffel Tower. He faced hurtles but found a new way to outdo the Eiffel Tower. He uses the Ferris Wheel. The fair opens incomplete in 1893. The World's Columbian Exposition was designed for the

The Devil in the White City Throughout the book “The Devil in The White City” Larson creates a lot of suspense and conflicts in different manners, realism and naturalism are one of the biggest ones. You can see this clearly when The Great Chicago Fire took place, the fire at the fair, the soil in Jackson park and the destruction that happened there while building the fair, and of course just men versus normal everyday things. This keep the reader wanting to know what happens in the end.

Webster Mudgett, common alias H. H. Holmes. 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,

place during The Chicago World’s Fair where architects are pressured to make a grand tower that would, ‘out-Eiffel Eiffel’. This put people like Burnam, Root and Olmstead in insane amounts of pressure. These architects had to cut some corners while making their towers. Workers were overworked, and they were payed unreasonably. The police force had to be modernized to maintain and protect all the civilians and tourists walking through the streets of Chicago during the World's Fair. Some may say that

Given the nickname the "White City" because of its elegant and pristine buildings, the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 was one of the most powerful events in American history. There were long lasting impacts on American culture, economy, and technology- the fair brought new advancements in virtually every aspect of daily life. It was held “to commemorate Columbus’s discovery of the New World” (Larson 15). The fair was a symbol of the expertise America possessed, but simultaneously highlighted the hardships

fair that changed america” to the title hardly does the novel justice. Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City, a nonfiction novel that surrounds the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, also known as The World’s Columbian Exposition. The novel follows the lives of two real men, Daniel Burnham, the architect who builds the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and H.H. Holmes, the serial killer who exploits the fair to find his victims. Many new inventions were introduced at the fair, such as Juicy Fruit gum, the Ferris

Although it faced many obstacles in construction, time, and many other aspects, the Chicago World’s fair was immensely successful and served as a great boast of American pride. The Devil 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