Larson's The Devil In The White City

In 1893 the World's Fair was becoming a major event. There was a variety of conflicts going on during the time period it was forming. Deaths, killings, architectural problems were all a conflict when trying to create the World's Fair. This time period was not as easy as it seemed either; they were in the midst of a depression. This made it harder to do what was needed to be done. In the book The Devil in the White City gives a wonderful and nonfictional story about the Worlds Fair that will have you at the edge of your seat.

Larson, author of The Devil in the White City, uses all the background information he can get to come up with an amazing story about to completely different men, but then oddly connects them to each other. The book is third person omniscient feature the two characters known as Daniel Burnham and H.H Holmes. Their stories are separated by each chapter through out the book. Larson uses many quotes and sayings from the actual individuals dairies, or he uses old news paper articles to make the story vivid. …show more content…
Burnham is a young architect building the Chicago's World Fair. After reading about Burnham, you can visual all the problems that he was faced with. You can also understand that to build something it comes with many difficulties. H.H Holmes is a pharmacist, but he is secretly a serial killer killing thousands. After reading about the excitement in Holmes story, you understand the economical and society problems back then. After reading this book you realize that things were different back then and so much has