Rachel Strunk
Mr. Lawson
AP English Language
30 September 2015
Discussion Questions: The Devil in the White City
Why did Erik Larson choose the point of views of Daniel Burnham and H.H Holmes together? Does this juxtaposition affect the narrative? If so, how?
Erik Larson uses his extensive research to retell the lives of two men that had a part in the World’s Columbian Exchange in one way or another. In his process, he creates two separate points of view to the story but with a connected plot in an attempt to fill in some of the gaps that may have been left out by history. One recreation is Daniel Burnham, a chief architect behind the World’s fair in 1893. He is the business mind and people person of his architectural firm, Burnham and
Mr. Lawson
AP English Language
30 September 2015
Discussion Questions: The Devil in the White City
Why did Erik Larson choose the point of views of Daniel Burnham and H.H Holmes together? Does this juxtaposition affect the narrative? If so, how?
Erik Larson uses his extensive research to retell the lives of two men that had a part in the World’s Columbian Exchange in one way or another. In his process, he creates two separate points of view to the story but with a connected plot in an attempt to fill in some of the gaps that may have been left out by history. One recreation is Daniel Burnham, a chief architect behind the World’s fair in 1893. He is the business mind and people person of his architectural firm, Burnham and