The Devil in the White City Kayla Wyrick
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The Devil in the White City
Kayla Wyrick
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Eric Larson● Born January 3, 1954 in Brooklyn, NY● Won Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime● He attended Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
and graduated in 1978● He has taught non-fiction at San Francisco University,
John Hopkins Writing Seminars, and University of Oregon
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Setting Chicago ● Chicago is going to hold the next worlds fair● Brings people to Chicago ● Increase in population ● Holmes came to Chicago in look of work
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PlotThe plot is Chicago 1893. Daniel Burnham is the main architect in charge of the World’s Fair. H.H. Holmes has just moved to newly booming Chicago. He eventually starts a hotel and people from the World’s Fair stay there, but they don’t know they are going to be his victims. As people go missing it ruins Burnhams plans.
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Daniel Hudson Burnham ● Architect in charge of building Worlds Fair in
Chicago 1893● Partner is John Root● Business person of the two
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H.H. Holmes● Doctor, Pharmacist, and Psychopathic Serial
Killer ● He moves to Chicago in search of work● He gets caught and arrested in Philadelphia ● He is executed by hanging
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John Root● Partner of Burnham● He is the main Architect of the two ● He died before construction started from
pneumonia in 1891
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George Ferris● Creates the Ferris Wheel● Builds the first Ferris Wheel for the 1893
Chicago Worlds Fair
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
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“I was born with the Devil in me..”
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First Ferris Wheel, 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
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Main IdeaTurning a black city into a white cityChicago turned into a place where everyone wanted to be and everyone wanted to have a place just like it.
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Symbols● Black: the darkness before the fair and
popularity it brought Chicago; The darkness Holmes is building with his hotel
● White: It the brightness and fame Chicago and American received due to the World’s Fair
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ComparingBurnham and Holmes ● Burnham was building and constructing the
World’s Fair● Holmes was constructing his hotel to lure his
people from the World’s Fair from
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ContrastingBurnham and Holmes● Burnham was trying to make a profit and
make Chicago a better and white city● Holmes was trying to get victims easily
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ThemeGood vs EvilHolmes eventually gets caught in the end and hung, and Burnham succeeds in the fair and closes it.
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ProtagonistDaniel Burnham is the Protagonist because he is the main character. He is the head architect for the World’s Fair project and is going turn the city around.
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AntagonistH.H. Holmes is the Antagonist because he is killing people which is causing the people to rethink the World’s Fair, because so many people are missing from the fair.