The Devil and Daniel Webster

The Devil was can take many different shapes and forms in life. It can take the form of a human all the way to the form of a drug. Satan, Lucifer and Old Scratch are many different names that the Devil is called. However, the Devil is not only person it is anything you are addicted to and very difficult to get out of. For example, like an addiction to drugs is a form of the Devil, because you can’t live without it. Nevertheless, the Devil can take form as a human, and will persuade you into…

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…

The Devil in the White City is written by Erik Larson, an author that takes historical events but instead of just explaining the events, he leaves his readers at the edge of their seats, wanting more, and explains gaps that are left in history regarding the events of this book. This book is set during the World's Columbian Exposition or better known as the World’s Fair of 1893. The book is based on two men that are on the opposite side of the spectrum in society: Daniel Burnham, the architect of…

can be argued as a precursor to the actual Civil War, this event in particular was meaningful for similar but smaller scale reasons. Another was the continual validation of the federal government's power over the states. Ideas were discussed in the Webster-Hayne debate, all of these setting precedents for years to come. One the biggest pieces this debate provides is the further sectioning between the North and South. With the aforementioned North and South’s interests being prioritized for the…

Holmes created a financial scandal of his own. When he opened his hotel, he bought everything on credit. “He had no intention of paying his debts and was confident he could evade prosecution through guilt and charm.” Surprisingly, he managed to keep many possessions without spending any real money and didn’t have to face any furniture dealers or anyone “whom Holmes had cheated over the previous five years” for a long time. What ended up happening was that he had to face them all at once. In the…

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 non-fiction text The Devil in the White City, written by Erik Larson, several arguments are made throughout the book. In order to support these arguments, Erik Larson describes in detail the lives of those who impacted society while in Chicago, as well as using direct quotes from these characters who ranged in different ages, backgrounds, and careers. Throughout this nonfiction book, there was one prevalent argument being asserted, that the construction of the World's Fair distracted the…

Scholars have also considered Ahab as either evil or the devil incarnate (May 279). In most of these scholarly articles, Ahab is simply portrayed as not one of us. He is foreign and represents behavior that is outside the parameters of everyday American society. Captain Peleg’s descriptions of Ahab as a “grand…

discusses an uncommon interpretation of the play. The essay reverses the roles, making Claudius a gentle ruler and Hamlet as the devil. I will fit this contrary interpretation within my research to acknowledge critics’ views against the standard interpretation of the play. Mitchell, Daniel. “Hamlet.” Wordpress.com. 11 Jan. 2013. Web. 1 May 2016. On this blog Daniel Mitchell points out what he likes most about Hamlet are the different interpretations of the play. Mitchell states that from…

INTRODUCTION Why is the red color in the stop sign and why does green mean "go"? Why does the bride wear white, and black is the color of mourning and sadness? Why does an optimist see the world in bright colors and a romantic person pursues the "blue dream"? This work discusses color and its place in culture. A lot of things in the reality surrounding us we perceive by means of colors and through them. Color terms bear in themselves much more information than it might seem at first glance.…