The Devil In The White City Sparknotes

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 himself when his partner John Root died. The other perspective is of H.H. Holmes who was the serial killer that would claim his victims at the world fair. It explains how he turned his pharmacy into a hotel and how he was able to murder his victims without any evidence. It also describes all the other illegal activities that he did such as fraud, theft, and not paying off his debt. The book ends with the telling of his escape and the investigators finally catching him. The investigation includes Frank Geyer who was one of the Philadelphia investigators that was assigned to figure out Holmes’s ways and how …show more content…
Capricorn means that the person has dominance, perseverance, is practical, has a lot of determination, and willful. All of these adjectives describe Daniel very well. At the beginning of his construction he was determined to make the best World Fair ever. He was determined to make a World Fair attraction that is better than the Eiffel Tower. Daniel also shows a great deal of perseverance. Throughout the book, he had gone through many obstacles and difficulties, though he was able to push through it and still build the world fair. One of the first difficulties that he had to overcome was that he had no previous education in architecture. He went into building the fair blind-sided and not educated. The other obstacle he had to overcome was the death of his partner during the process of