The Devil in the White City (218-342)

Summary

          It is weird how some things in this book are brought up, it makes me remember that this is a history book. For example, at one point says that that a mam named Walt wanted to build a fantasy paradise and his son would take notice, and I was amazed because than I remembered Walt Disney. To mention historical moments the fair finally has a main structure that might be able to beat the Eiffel tower. They were over with ridiculous ideas such as an eight thousand foot lodge with a restaurant on top. They constructor of the structure would be a man named Ferris, can you guess what he was going to build? Of course a Ferris wheel, first of its kind. The only question is, is there enough time? There I'd only a little over two months left to finish.
          On the other hand Holmes is married for the third time. This time Homes was smart in order to hire a fake minister and no witnesses. It was to a woman named Minnie who I'd not that easy ob the eyes and little to no neck. Even her sister wondered why such a handsome charming mam would choose her as a wife. Is it any surprise that she had cloaked a large inheritance from the death of her uncle. Holmes did all the right things. He wooed her with letters and bike rides. He always chose all the same types of women, those who he thought seemed needy. Minnie was perfect because she is needy and would cry when Holmes would leave Boston for Chicago.

Quote

          "The White City had drawn men and protected them; the Black City now welcomed them back on the eve of winter with filth, starvation, and violence" (Larson 323).

 

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          This is an important quote because it shows that when the Fair was first being built everyone thought that it was such a good thing because not only was it going to open a lot of jobs for people who were choosing to move to Chicago in large numbers, but they were not called the windy city for nothing. They honestly thought that they were not going to out beat any other Exposition but they would set a new height and therefore were very pompous. Then after the fair closed and all the humility that was left from the murders of H. H. Holmes, there was nothing to be proud of. There was only unemployed people left.