World's Columbian Exposition

Journal, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Harper’s. Clearly, Erik Larson is a highly decorated and accomplished writer. The Devil in the White City simultaneously tells the stories of the architects who designed the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, and a serial killer who took advantage of the World Fair to kill several unsuspecting tourists. Larson contrasts the brilliance of the fair’s…

the White City by: Erik Larson Crown Publishing Group, 2003, and 447 The book "The Devil in the White City" is about the serial killer H.H. Holmes and the architect of the World's Fair Daniel H. Burnham. Who was Daniel H. Burnham? Burnham was a man who rose to prominence. In 1893 Chicago won the bid for the World's Exposition. The architects chosen were Burnham and his partner John Root, Burnham and John needed to build something to give their city a better reputation. Burnham ended facing…

On Saturday, October 24, Chicago will be unveiling its artistic culture with The Halloween Gathering, an all-day celebration of art workshops, performances, and interactive exhibits concluding with an after-dark parade. “This is the inaugural event,” said Allison Gerlach, the producer of the Chicago Cultural Mile, where the event will be held. “We have been planning it for over a year now.” All of the preparation has resulted in stunning programming, from a Chicago Opera Theatre performance to…

to learn about something new rather than the alternative athlete that I’ve done biographies on in the past. The novel shows the stories of two different people during the time of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, one man being Daniel Burnham, and the other was Holmes. For my project I focused more on H.H. Holmes due to myself having more interest in using him for my…

The name of my article is “The Maco Railroad Light.” This story was written by Troy Taylor. This article was published in 1998. Taylor writes mostly about history, hauntings, and the unexplained. He is the founder and president of the “American Ghost Society.” I believe the intended audience is people who love the unexplained. My article is about the Mako Light. It is an unexplainable light that appears near a railroad station. The light is supposed to come from a lantern that Joe Baldwin was…

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 came with the World’s Fair that took place in 1893 added to the sense of confusion. Theodore Dreiser’s novel Sister Carrie gives a sense of the opportunities available to individuals to develop themselves, but for the victims of H.H Holmes (Herman…

Take Home Exam No.2 The Devil in The White City, by Erik Larson , is a wonderful deception of Chicago in the late nineteenth century. Larson writes the book in the style of a novel but it is a historical non-fiction. Larson follows the journey of two contrasting characters.Daniel Brougham an architect from Chicago that oversee’s all of building of the Worlds Fair of 1893. The other is H.H. Holmes, the psychotic serial killer works out of his own home. On the surface, the two characters seem…

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; however, when he does…

The novel I read was The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea. The Devil’s Highway is a true story about Mexican immigration to the United States. It retells the devastating journey of the group of men who attempted to cross the U.S. border by entering one of the deadliest regions in Arizona known as the Devil’s Highway. There were twenty-six men who entered the region, and only twelve survived. This journey was the largest number of border-event deaths in history. Urrea introduces each…

In Larson’s book The Devil in the White City, Larson portrays Jackson Park, the location of the Chicago World’s Fair, in different ways, based on the characters’ knowledge of the park. He uses three characters’ quotes and thoughts to give the reader an image of the park: Olmsted, Burnham, and the east coast architects. The image he gives the reader is never perfect, but the first impression he gives the reader is acceptable. At first, Larson describes Jackson Park as a place that may not have…