Devil

‘The Devil Wears Prada’ is the international bestseller by Lauren Weisberger published in 2003 by the Harper publishing house. This book follows the experiences of a young graduate from Brown who somehow finds herself working as one of the assistants of the top fashion magazine in the world, Runway. Never having read a copy of Runway in her life and with aspirations of working at The New Yorker fresh out of college, Andrea ‘Andie’ Sachs finds herself at an interview at Runway after applying half…

The Devil in the White City is a true crime novel written by Erik Larson. The novel takes place during the late 19th century in Chicago, Illinois. The United States decided to host the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, also known as the World’s Fair, in honor of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the new world. St. Louis, New York, Washington DC, and Chicago all submitted bids to be the host city for the fair. By popular vote, Chicago was chosen to host the 1983 World’s…

The Devil and Tom Walker The setting of Washington Irving’s “The Devil and Tom Walker” serves as a way for Irving to foreshadow coming events, especially events that are rather… grim. For example, “The swamp was… grown with great gloomy pines and hemlocks”. Pine is a tree that can be seen as symbolising an everlasting element, and hemlock is extremely poisonous to domestic animals and, more importantly, humans. Later, Tom Walker meets the character named ‘Old Scratch, or the devil. The devil is…

The Devil in the White City follows the exploits of two men with radically different lives, yet they still bare similarities to one another. The first is Daniel Burnham, the architect challenged with the task of making the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago stand out with an attraction to rival the Eiffel tower. The second central character, and serving as the other side of the coin to Burnham, is Dr. H.H. Holmes; a career criminal, pharmacist and serial killer who designed elaborate traps and…

The Devil in the White City Book Report In The Devil in the White City, the author Erik Larson tells the story of an architect and a serial killer in Chicago during the 1890’s. He tries to describe how Daniel Burnham, an architect, builds the Chicago World Fair in an innocent or white city while at the same time helps Henry Holmes, the devil in the innocent city, to satisfy his craving of power, blood, and fear. Burnham tries to give Chicago a more positive reputation, but it ends of having a…

In the short story “The Devil and Tom Walker,” Tom makes the poor decision to deal with the devil so he can become wealthy (Irving 9). However, the devil has a hefty price for Tom’s fortune, his soul. Now, at first Tom puts the consequences of his deal on the back burner of his mind, but as he starts to age Tom attempts to become religious in order to thwart the devil (Irving 11). Nevertheless, Tom’s plan fails and the devil collects his payment, “The black man whisked him [Tom] like a child…

“I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing” (Larson 109.) In the book, The Devil in the White City, Burnham, an architect, is having many different struggles in building the World’s Fair by opening day, but after the many struggles he ends up making the fair a dreamland. At the same time, Holmes, the first serial killer, is luring young women into his hotel and killing them without getting caught;…

Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City is a contribution to the remembrance of the historical significance the world’s fair had on cities and the overall American way of life. Lasting only 6 months, the fair had an impressive impact on the entire world. Placing itself in direct competition with France, who had hosted the fair a few years earlier, Chicago had America’s reputation in its hands. Larson’s novel follows the short-lived exposition highlighting not only how it came to life, but what…

alive. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson offers a great insight into the life of Chicago before and after the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair (or The World’s Columbian Exposition) occurred. Larson uses the disturbing and gruesome stories of a serial killer named H. H. Holmes (or Herman Webster Mudgett) along with the life of the architects behind the Chicago World Fair to get a sense of what Chicago was going through in the late 1800s. The historic events that are covered in The Devil in the…

The Immortal Devil This article was centered around the Tasmanian devil. One may think for their breeding habits or lifestyle, but it was what was growing in them. The cancer, devil facial tumor disease, was the prime focus of this article and many others after seeing the devastation it caused. At the start of the article a biologist by the name of Menna Jones who had caught a Tasmanian devil and she proceeded to do what she has done many times before. She dumped the small creature out of the…