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Chicago in 1893: Bright City, Dark Menace In the historical novel “The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America,” author Erik Larson portrays Chicago as both the city of opportunity and simultaneously as a hotbed of crime and human exploitation (Larson). Chicago in the 1890’s was quite rough because jobs and murders have made the city a place of both danger and opportunity. Numerous murders have led to turmoil in the city. In addition, the changes that…

In The Devil in the White City, a novel published in the year 2003, Erik Larson describes the greatness of both the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and one of America’s first serial killers, H.H. Holmes. In the novel, Larson uses juxtaposition, imagery, and repetition to emphasize the characteristics of good and evil for the reader. In his implementations of juxtaposition, Larson directly contrasts the characteristics of opposing elements. In his contrast between “the moral” and “the…

deliverance from this land of famine"(259). The simile, word choice and tone of the passage give the reader a hint that the couple is ruthless and neglectful; readers won't mimic such people, so a lesson is learned. Also, in the end of the story when the devil takes Tom away, the writer uses some vivid words that show the mood: "The black man whisked him like a child into the saddle, gave the horse a lash, and away he galloped, with Tom on his back in the midst of…

The Devil in the White City is a nonfiction book that is divided into four different parts. The last part takes the reader into two perspectives. One perspective is of Daniel Burnham who was the architect that built the 1893 Chicago’s World Fair. The book describes of the obstacles that Daniel and his partner John Root had to overcome. These obstacles include the two of them having to figure out an attraction more spectacular than the Eiffel Tower. Also, Daniel was left building the fair by…

The Tasmanian devil is an apex predator and the largest marsupial carnivore. Devil Facial Tumor Disease (DFTD) is a highly aggressive, transmissible cancer that is decimating the Tasmanian devil population and threatening the species with extinction in as little as thirty years (Brüniche-Olsen et al., 2016). The disease first showed up in 1996 and a second transmissible cancer in devils was discovered in 2014. This disease has since declined the population 95% in some areas while spreading to…

The Devil In The White City Essay #1 The majority of people will realize this book is different after just reading the first two chapters of The Devil in The White City. Rather you find out the book is being told from two stories being jumped back in forth between two totally different men in chicago during the world fair, or the interruptions of flashbacks, and little details you come across from Erik Larson's own research. This sounding like chaos Larson still has his book set up with a…

A man guilty of one of the world's deadliest sins. Greed. In the story The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving a man, Tom Walker displays the Dark Romantics beliefs in wickedness in humanity. He exhibits this through his actions and lust for money. In the story The Devil and Tom Walker, Tom Walker was an ill-fed rascal that lived in Massachusetts and was ever so greedy. He and his wife were very poor and both "squabbled over the spending of a penny and each grudged food to the other."…

write a book review based on a list of novels that Professor Vistain has passed around. I looked around and tried to pick a book and I was not interested in any of them but The Devil in the White City looked interesting as it is mostly based on history of Chicago, and how well written this nonfiction novel is. The Devil in the White City is a nonfiction novel is also divided into four parts, whereas the first three part of the novel is based on Chicago between the years of 1890-1895; meanwhile…

In The Devil in the White City, the events of the World’s Fair in Chicago are recounted in stunning clarity, hearing about the architects involved and their own personal journeys. From the beginning as well, the readers are informed about H. H. Holmes, the serial killer who resided at the Fair’s doorstep. Since the killer’s identity is already spoiled for the audience, Erik Larson is forced to resort to other means of captivating his readers and holding them in suspense. Throughout Larson’s…

Erik Larson is argued to have a difficult time creating realistic details for a book about a time period he could only research about. In The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson uses brilliantly constructed figurative language in order to insightfully display his interpretation of the story (entailing the events of the Chicago World Fair and the serial killer H. H. Holmes) and realistically and informatively describe the details of people, places, and events in the novel. The first figurative…