The Devil in the White City

Speaker: The author is the one telling the story based off his research of the events.  Larson admires the killer in the beginning of the book because Holmes started off on the right foot as a medical student on the path to a positive future.  Larsons perspective of Holmes changes throughout the book 

Occasion: This book takes place in 1893 at the Chicago World Fair.  This was the Fair that was going to set America's place in the artistic world.

Audience: This book targets those who enjoy architectural aspects and also enjoy a good mystery.  This book would most likely appeal to an older audience. 

Purpose:  The author wrote this piece to educate people on the fair that put America above the French in artistic excellence.  Larson wrote this story to show how Dr. H. H. Holmes killings were successful by using the World Fair in Chicago to lure his victims.

Style:  I feel like back in this time period of the 1890's the people used more of a serious tone with little humor in it at all, and I think Erik Larson tried to bring that serious tone into this story.  He did use a wide variety of sentence structure with lots of different complex and compound sentences and he used big words which was very good.

Tone:  The author has a very sophisticated tone using words such as splendid, tremendous, miasma, acquisition, etc.  I feel as if he used confidence in his writing and that was important because it made me really feel like I was there and I had studied these events myself.

I really enjoyed this book because I love reading a good mystery book, and I felt connected to the story itself.  This was definitely a book that I would recommend for anyone to read.  I usually don''t get into non-fiction books but I really enjoyed this book!!!

My Favorite Book

I'm sure everyone has heard about The Hunger Games, who hasn't right? The Hunger Games is about a country called Panem that has twelve districts surrounding it.  Every year, as a punishment for the districts attempt at rebellion, each district sends one boy and one girl tribute between the ages of twelve and eighteen to compete to be the last one standing.  And of course like every other teenage action book there is not one but two romances brewing under the surface.  This book has been read and talked about non stop since it came out.  I didn’t start reading the series until a couple years later, because I never really had the time to read with soccer five days a week and school.  My friends had all read the book, and it was all they could talk about.  So I decided to read it.  And I am so glad I did.

 The Hunger Games in my opinion is appealing to a wide audience.  There are different aspects of the series from the villan President Snow to the Hunger Games to the romance between Peeta and Katniss, and that of Katniss and Gale.  Its a romance and action book all in one and everyone likes a good plot twist.  Each of the three books in the series carries out the love triangle between Peeta, Katniss, and Gale.  They contain fighting for the lives of many people and they contain other underlying stories that add other mystery and excitement to the story.

Is it embarrassing that I've read the series like four times?