THe Devil in the White City(10)

5 comments

• Holmes was indicted for the murders of Benjamin, Howard, Alice and Nellie Pitezel
• Holmes' book reached the newsstands
• The Exposition influenced people until the 1950s
• Americans wanted their cities pretty and clean
• burnham developed diabetes and colitis later on in his life.

4 questions

1. why did sullivan start drinking later in his life?
2. did he start drinkig because Olmsted died?
3. why did ferris sell most of his ownership of the wheel?
4. why did most of the architects lose their money?

3 vocabulary words

• auction- a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
• asylum-an institution for the maintenance and care of the mentally ill, orphans, or other persons requiring specialized assistance.
• colitis-Inflammation of the colon.

2 literary terms

1. description of the funerals
2. imagery- the description of the fair after everyone moved on

1 overview sentence
1. the fair is over and the architects try to move on with their lives.

THe Devil in the White City(9)

5 comments

1. The Assistant District Attorney, Thomas W. Barlow, tried to keep the newspapers from Holmes the day the story ran about finding the girls.
2. Holmes just refused to talk.
3. He decided that writng a memoir in jail would make the people judge him less.
4. He found a journalist named John King.
5. Geyer returned to Indianapolis because he had a feeling Holmes had murdered Howard there.

4 questions
will people start believing Holmes?
does burnham and the rest of the architects know about this?
do you think he'll get out?
where is his first wife at this time?

3 vocabulary words

• demeanor-conduct; behavior; deportment.
• kiln-a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, esp. one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks.
• articulated- having a joint or joints

2 literary terms
the table was a beeutiful bloddy mess- irony
he paced back and forth in his cell-stage direction

1 overview sentence
Holmes is caught and the kiln with the bones is discovered with bodies of children and dresses for kids.

THe Devil in the White City(8)

5 comments

1. Opening Day began as a rainy day
2. Twenty-three carriages carried the dignitaries to the park for the ceremony
3. President Grover Cleveland gave a short address after others had spoken and turned the key to send electricity throughout the expositon grounds.
4. workers cleaned, painted, repaired and planted, through the night so that everything looked wonderful.
5. the ferris wheel was not completed and some of the other thongs were not ready

4 questions
who was the ferris wheel named after?
why was the fair considered open if things didn't work?
who else spoke before the electricity went through the expeditotn?
was it beautiful, better than paris's fair?

3 vocabulary words
dignitaries-a person who holds a high rank or office, as in the government or church.
expositon-a large-scale public exhibition or show, as of art or manufactured products:
economy-thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.

2 literary terms-description- the way the people want the flowers precisely arranged
imagery - the way in which the men cleaned

1 overview sentence
the fair is now open but the attendance has slowly decreased and some of the exhibits aren't complet yet.

THe Devil in the White City(7)

5 comments

• Holmes now owns part of a legitimate company
• He knew his time in Chicago would be ending soon because creditors were knocking at his door.
• Holmes gave them no new info to the families of Julia and Emeline about their daughters.
• His biggest problem the need for a secretary
• sought out women just arriving in Chicago for the job.

4 questions

1. why does he like killing people so much?
2. why couln't he just make his wife secretary?
3. is no one suspicious sbout holmes hiring so many women?
4. why does the secretary have to be a woman?

3 vocabulary words

• Creditors-One to whom money or its equivalent is owed.
• alcoholism-a chronic disorder characterized by dependence on alcohol,
• legitimate-in accordance with established rules, principles, or standards.

2 literary terms

1. stresses the need to find a secretary
2. descriptive way of saying what he wants
   

1 overview sentence
Holmes is becoming more obsessed and is now looking for a secretary.

THe Devil in the White City(6)

5 Comments

1. Burnham begins seeing his family rarely.
2. by spring he was living full-time at the shanty located in Jackson Park
3. 5 thousand men are slowly beginning to scrape the landscape raw
4. General Electric offered to to the electrical job for 1.8 million dollars.
5. The source of Burnham's greatest dismay was the failure of the architects to finish their drawings on schedule

4 questions

• how much would 1.8 million dollars be in our time?
• how much would 554,000 dollars be in our time?
• did the horses that sank to their bellies die?
• where is Zanzibar?

3 Vocabulary Words

• toboggan-a long, narrow, flat-bottomed sled made of a thin board curved upward and backward at the front, often with low handrails on the sides, used esp. in the sport of coasting over snow or ice.
• commissioners-A member of a commission.
• irreparably-not reparable; incapable of being rectified, remedied, or made good: an irreparable mistake

2 literary terms

1. the descrition of the scraped landscape
2. the description of the drawings

1 Overview Sentence
Burnham harly gets to see his family anymore because the fair takes too much of his time.

THe Devil in the White City(5)

5 comments

• Holmes finally meets Ned and Julia.
• Ned begins to get suspicious about Holmes and Julia.
• Ned a Julia begin to fight
• Holmes sells Ned one of his stores.
• Ned finally separates from Julia and goes to live in Illinois.

4 questions

• how did holmes meet ned and julia?
• why does Holmes not want to be with julia anymore?
• why did he marvel at his kiln?
• was he the cause of Ned's sisters death?

3 vocabulary words
decree-a formal and authoritative order, esp. one having the force of law:
liaison-a person who initiates and maintains such a contact or connection.
sullen-showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.

2 literary terms

• repetition- the way the repeats Ned's suspicions
  
• descriptive- writing- they way the author describes Ned's suspicions

1 overview sentence
Holmes is still trying to get people to buy life insurance and put him as the beneficiary.

THe Devil in the White City(4)

5 Comments

• Burnham, Olmstead, Hunt, and the other architects gathered in the libraray.
• They are beginning the process of planning what they will do with the fair.
• They are thinking about using flowers.
• there is some conflict between the people in charge of the fair.
• Charles is new to the committee.

4 questions

• why is it so hard to execute the project?
• who were the 2 italian men?
• when are they going to start?
• why are criminal s going to be attracted to the fair/

3 Vocabulary words

• birch bark-a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree
• sanpans- A flatbottom Asian skiff usually propelled by two oars.
• memorandum-a short note designating something to be remembered, esp. something to be done or acted upon in the future; reminder.

2 literary terms
description- the way the people want the flowers precisely arranged
description- the way Burnham explains Atwood's erratic behavior

1 overview sentence
they are beginning to plan the fair's layout.

THe Devil in the White City(3)

5 comments

1. it was very interesting when holmes talked about kiln
2. i liked how the architects described how ugly Jackson Park looked
3. i was shocked when Root, burnham architect and friend, died in his house.
4. holmes is probably responsible for the vanshing people
5. holmes should just get a divorce from Myrta

4 questions

• 'why did Roots die anyway?
• isn't a vacant park good for a fair?
• what really happened to the vanishing people?
• does holmes even pay his workers, the workers who work in his plaza?

3 vocabulary words

1. transcendent-going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
2. apparatus- any complex instrument or mechanism for a particular purpose.
3. kiln-a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, esp. one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks.

2 vocabulary terms

• descriptive writing- the way the architects described how jackson park looked
• "..Olmsted, his teeth inflamed," =hyperbole

1 overview
the architects finally see what they are going to be working with for the next two years while Holmes is busy trying to make his building into a hotel and in he basement there is a furnace... a really big furnace.

THe Devil in the White City(2)

5 Comments

1. Holmes is introduced in the story.
2. he has killed a child in the past.
3. he went to college and now wants to become a doctor.
4. Holmes moved to Chicago because he thought it was a better place.
5. Jack the Ripper is mentioned.

4 Questions

1. did they ever suspect Holmes of the murder/
2. did he kill his parents?
3. did he kill his best friend as a child?
4. Has he killed more than that is mentioned so far?

3 Vocabulary Words

1. macabre-gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible.
2. astigmatic-A visual defect in which the unequal curvature of one or more refractive surfaces of the eye, usually the cornea, prevents light rays from focusing clearly at one point on the retina, resulting in blurred vision.
3. emissaries-an agent sent on a mission of a secret nature, as a spy.

2 Literary Terms

• "They are blue. Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes" pg.35
• personifiction- "starvation was string me in the face" *(larson 42)

1 OverView sentence
We finally meet Holmes and get to see who he really is under all that pleasant innocence that he allows to be seen.

THe Devil in the White City(1)

5 Comments

1. The fair will be held in Chicago.
2. Burnham and Root are the architects in charge.
3. America and other countries voted.
4. Everyone wants it to be better than the fair in Paris.
5. Burnham and Holmes don't know eachother.

4 Questions

1. What was the voting system like in the 19th century.
2. Who was the president at this time? Was he aware of the fair?
3. Do Burnham and Holmes know each other?
4. How long did it take for the Eiffel tower to be completed?

3 Vocabulary Words

1. Lackluster-a lack of brilliance or vitality.
2. advent-a coming into place, view, or being; arrival:
3. courtship-the period during which such wooing takes place.

2 Literary Terms

1. metaphor- "Burnham was handsome, tall, and strong, with vivid blue eyes, all of which drew clients and friends to him the way a lens gathers light" (Larson 26)
2. simile- "For now, the tension was subtle, a vibration, like the inaudible cry of overstressed steel"

1 Overview Sentence

1. The fair will be held in Chicago and it is a big deal to the architects and other denizens.
   

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

I will begin posting
about my history book
about a fair thatvis set to take place
in the grand city of Chicago in the 1890s.
the book has two main characters, Daniel Burnham (the architect) and H.H. Holmes (a serial killer)

MAkes Me Wanna Holler (10) ~pgs.390-416~

5 Comments

• Nathan starts having problems with one of his co-workers and he threatens to beat him up if he tries to undermine him again.
• Monroe, who is now 16, comes to live with his father because Liz feels he is getting out of hand.
• Nathan goes to jail for 4 days because Debbie set him up and took out a warrant against him for failing to pay child support. Nathan begins to conjure up ways on how to murder his ex-wife. He forgets about it after he gets out of jail.
• He finds a woman who he almost killed in the past named Carolyn and her daughter may be his daughter.
• Nathan starts thinking about all his homeboys and how he got a second chance and as the book ends, Nathan begins to realize that they had a choice but he decided to make the right choice.

4 Questions

• Why din't Nathan get warned about telling that guy off?
• Why is Monroe acting out with his mother but at the same time he does not like any one checking her out?
  
• How come the book doesn't talk about Monroe's stepfather?
• Why doesn't Nathan try and get custody of his other two children?

3 Vocabulary Words

• elitist-consciousness of or pride in belonging to a select or favored group.
• esoterica-things understood by or meant for a select few; recondite matters or items.
• nuances-a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response, etc.

2 Literary Terms

1. Simile- "The Atlanta Journal- Constitution to the Washigton Post was like going from college football to the pros.
2. Flashback- When Nathan remembers the time when he and Gregg almost killed Carolyn because she jumped out of the car when she realized that Nathan and his boys were going to gang-rape her to confuse who the father of her unborn child would be. She suffered a seizure but they were afraid to go to the hospital because they thought they would go to jail. (Nathan was 18 at the time, at the time of the flashback he was 36)

1 Overview Sentence

Nathan settles down with his son and suffers alittle bit but then he realizes that he made the right choice to turn his life around.

Makes Me Wanna Holler (9) ~pgs.365-390~

(NATHAN IS NOW 33 YEARS OLD!)
5 Comments

• Nathan visits Portsmouth several times since he moved away and he learns overtime that most of his "brothers" have committed suicide, they've been shot, they are in jail for murder, and they are druggies that are broke.
• The divorce process is very ugly. Debbie is evil and she lies. She ends up staying in the house Nathan bought and they have "joint custody"
• Nathan at some point slips into a phase where he wants to beat up Debbie because she driving him towards bankruptcy. He can't really pay his child-support.
• Nathan's mother is stressed out about Dwight, Nathan's older brother who never has money and never pays her back.
• Nathan gets into the Washington Post and moves to Washington D.C.

4 Questions

• Why is Debbie so evil?
• Will Nathan ask Bimbo for some money because he's a millionaire?
• Does the Post pay more money than Journal-Atlanta Constitiution?
• How is Monroe doing?

3 Vocabulary Words

1. ashen-extremely pale; drained of color
2. pallid-pale; faint or deficient in color; wan:
3. entrenched-To fix firmly or securely

2 Literary Terms

• Simile-"Eyes vacant, and hearts cold as ice in winter." (McCall 372)
• Metaphor- "They moved with the speed and grace of gazelles."(McCall 373)

1 Overview sentence

1. Nathan gets a costly divorce and realizes that he could've been like the rest of the gang but he gets a job with the Washington Post and moves further north.
   

Makes Me Wanna Holler (8) ~pgs. 329-364~

5 Comments

• Nathan's relationship with his wife begin to diminsh while his reltionship with his children begin to flourish.
• Nathan begins realizing that not all white people are bad. He makes his first real white friend Danny.
• Nathan's past begins to haunt him.
• He begins traveling to Europe and other places.
• Debbie gets divorce papers after Nathan, during a argument, implies on getting one. Maya, his daughter gets sick with something that could turn out to be meningitis.

4 Questions

• Did Danny ever return from Africa to visit Nathan?
• Why do Nathan and Debbie argue when everyone is healthy and OK?
• Will Nathan sign the divorce papers?
• Will he continue in the marriage just for his children?

3 Vocabulary words

1. camaraderie-good-fellowship.
2. spliff-a marijuana cigarette, esp. a large or very potent one.
3. bureau-a division of a government department or an independent administrative unit.

2 Literary Terms

• metaphor-"She Froze" (McCall 356)
• oxymoron-"I'd be a walking, breathing, living dead man." (McCall 354)

1 Overview Sentence

As Nathan begins loosening up around whites, his marriage begins to fade enabling more problems to arise.

Makes Me Wanna Holler (7) ~pgs. 278-328~

5 Comments

• Nathan meets an begins dating Debbie.(I hope Nathan gets back with Liz)
  
• Debbie gets pregnant and Nathan is not really happy about it.
  
• They move to Atlanta where Nathan begins covering more storie but he can't seem to enjoy Atlanta because he wanted to be there alone.
• Debbie gives birth to Ian Bakari McCall and they're relationship begins to fall apart because Debbie, that's right Debbie, is abusive towards Nathan but he can't even defend himself because the officers will always take the woman's side. He moves out.
  
• He eventually decides to give her another chance and then she gets pregnant. i can't believe it. Nathan can't believe it either an he gets mad but when he holds his baby girl for the first time he, for the first time, falls in love with her and decides to marry Debbie just cause she had 2 kids by him.

4 Questions

• Why does Nathan have to get intimate so quickly with people he just met?
• What is it that makes him truly love his baby daughter?
• Why does Debbie's family have to get in their business so much?
• Does Liz know about Nathan's other kids?

3 Vocabulary Words

• frumpy-A person regarded as colorless and primly sedate.
• Lamaze-Relating to or being a method of childbirth in which the expectant mother is prepared psychologically and physically to give birth without the use of drugs.
• rendezvoused-an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.

2 Literary TErms

• The way Nathan describes the way he felt about Maya, his new daughter.
• The way NAthan continuously describes the faults of whites and blacks in journalism.

1 Overview Sentence

Nathan brings a baby girl into the world and unwillingly gets married to Debbie along with other things he comes across everyday.

Makes Me Wanna Holler (6) ~ pgs. 237-276~

5 Comments

• Nathan continues going to college and he graduates but does not go to his own graduation which he now regrets.


• He briefly becomes a Muslim and gets briefly married to Yvette becasue Muslims were supposed to be married.


• He landed a job as a reporter for The Virginian Pilot Ledger Star and was surrounded by whites but they were not a hostile as when he was growing up.


• He had to modify his pimp and stumbled a lot while doing so.


• Nathan gets his own aparment and meets his father for the first time in his life.

4 Questions

• Why didn't Nathan's father care about him?


• Why was it so hard to find a job?


• Where did Yvette eventually go to after the divorce?


• Does Nathan want to go to Florida and visit his 9 yr old son?

3 Vocabulary Words

• assimilate-to take in and incorporate as one's own


• amorphous-lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless


• gregarious-fond of the company of others; sociable.

2 Literary Terms

• The way Nathan describes his feelings towards his father without actually saying anything.
• Nathan foreshadows a lot of things that are to happen chapters later in the book.

1 Overview sentence
Nathan starts readjusting to life and he is beginning to realize that his past is far behind him.

Makes Me Wanna Holler (5) ~pgs. 179- 237~

5 Comments

• Nathan works in the library in the Southampton jail


• He is beginning to read a lot more


• Liz finally tells him she is seeing someone else and he cries for about two days strraight then he vows to never take woman for granted once he got out.


• He eventually does three of the twelve years in prison because the parole board decided that he should let out.


• He stops being bad and decides to become a journalist but he has to find a job that will accept him since he is a convicted felon.

4 Questions

• Why does Nathan still not feel that fatherly connection with his son when he gets out of jail? (his son is 5)


• Is he dating Yvette Johnson?


• Why is Nathan so down?
• Since when did Nathan have a younger brother?

3 Vocabulary Words

• bicentennial-pertaining to or in honor of a 200th anniversary
• vernacular-expressed or written in the native language of a place, as literary works
• beaucoup-many; numerous; much

2 Literary Terms

• Dialogue-Then he asked, "What are you in for, McCall?" I said, "Armed robbery."(McCall 216)
  
• Descriptive Passage - "I remember clearly that snowy February day in 1978 when i was released from the joint. my homies gathered on the sidewalk that morning and watched me leave. As i climbed into the car and my mother drove off, I cast a long, hard look at the prison, tears began streaming uncontrollably down my face." (McCall 223)

1 Overview Sentence

Nathan, luckily, served only three years of his twelve year sentence and now that he is free, he begins job hunting and he finds an interest in continuing college.

Makes Me Wanna Holler (4) ~pgs. 127-178~

5 Comments

• Nathan prefers to do drugs rather than sell them.(Nathan is now 20 yrs. old)
  
• He begins to feel that he his losing it and that his mom was right all along.
• Nathan get involved with Nutbrain and Charlie Gregg who are real thieves and they make a ton of money.
• Nathan and the two guys get caught and Nathan goes to jail for 12 years while the other guys only get ten. (Nathan was the one holding the gun at the time.)
• Nathan begins reading Native Son by Richard Wright in jail and he decides he wants to marry Liz and have a jail wedding.
  

(Nathan is now 20 yrs. old)

4 Questions

• Why does Nathan have to be so lazy?
• How come Nathan didn't listen to his conscious on the night he was caught?
• Why do the inmates get so much freedom inside jail?
  
• How much time does Mo Battle have to do?

3 Vocabulary Words

• pawns- the least valuable pieces on the chessboard
• resignation-an accepting, unresisting attitude, state, etc.; submission;
• burly- large in bodily size; stout; sturdy

2 Literary Terms

• setting- the jail in Porstmouth, Virginia
• descriptive- "The dude with the lightest sentences, a tall, burly guy, with greasy hair, was wailing loudest." (McCall 149)

1 Overview Sentence

Nathan must suffer the consequences, not only for robbing the the McDonalds, but for robbing himself of becoming important in life, so now he must now serve 12 long years behind the bars he, for so long, dreaded.

Makes ME Wanna Holler (3) ~pgs.89-126~

5 Comments

• Nathan finally gets a job.


• Starts sticking up people and robbing them of their money and clothes with his buddy Shell Shock.


• Nathan begins to fall in love with Liz (a girl from school) and gets her pregnant.


• Graduates from high school.


• Nathan has a son and he shoots Plaz for disrespecting him and his lady (Liz)

4 Questions

• Why didn't Nathan just listen to Liz when she told him to forget about Plaz?


• Is being a street boy preventing Nathan from truly his son, Monroe?


• Why does Nathan have to start selling refeer if he knows he's too lazy to do it?


• Do Liz and Nathan still love each other?

3 Vocabulary Words

• fedora-a soft felt hat with a curled brim, worn with the crown creased lengthwise.
• transvestites-A person who dresses and acts in a style or manner traditionally associated with the opposite sex.
• quaalude-a brand of methaqualone.

2 Literary Terms

• synechdocche-"I had toppled an old-head." (McCall 121)
• simile- "The carnival graounds, meanwhile, had turned chaotic. People ran screaming everywhere. It was like one of those movies where a mosnter is trampling through a city..." (McCall 119)

1 Overview Sentence

Nathan, falls in love, graduates from high school, has a boy, and shoots someone all in the same summer.

Makes Me Wanna Holler (2) ~pgs.66-88~

5 Comments

• High School was a turnig point for Nathan McCall.
• Nathan was "this" close to killing a guy with a gun.
• Nathan was "this" close to dying from being badly beaten by a rival gang.
• Nathan fired a gun into a crowd of a rival gang and the bullet grazed someones hand.
• The war between the Down town boys and the Manor screwed up members love lives.

4 Questions

• Why didn't Nathan get in trouble by a cop for carrying a knife?
• Did Nathan break up with Nita?
• Does he still have feelings for Denise?
• Why can't Nathan just admit that he loves his gang members? (brotherly love)

3 Vocabulary Words

• Arsenal-a collection or supply of weapons or munitions
  
• Clash-to come together or collide
  
• Intuitive-capable of being perceived

2 Literary Words

• descriptive writing- the way Nathan descrided his own beating
• foreshadowing-when Nathan talks about when his brother joined the army in the future.
  

1 Overwiew Sentence
1. Nathan is evolving into a true gangster and he is beginning to learn that, with a gun, the power to kill someone is literary at his fingertips.

Makes Me wanna Holler (1) ~pgs.1-66~

5 Comments

• The book starts out with Nathan at 15, beating up a white boy with a group of other black kids.
• The book officially starts out with Nathan moving to Cavalier Manor at 9 years old
• Before he started "hanging", Nathan believed that white people had more fun.
• Nathan went to a white school in the beginning of his 6th grade year but eventually had to move because they harassed him.
  
• When Nathan started to go to Waters with his older brothers, he started noticing everything. He wanted to become cool and so he stared "hanging" with about 15 boys and that's where the trouble started.

4 Questions

• Why was it such a big deal to Nathan at age 14/15 to be able to beat up people of his own race?
• If Nathans' parents did not give him a curfew, do you think he would be better off?
• Why didn't his parents stop him from "hanging" with his boys when he was caught stealing?
• Why doesn't Nathan mother not want to talk to him about sex and it's dangers due to the fact that she got pregnant a 13 with her first son?

3 Vocabulary Words

• Scrimped- to be excessively sparing with or of.
• Incessant- continuing without interruption
• Napoleonic-pertaining to, resembling, or suggestive of Napoleon I

2 Literary Terms

• personification- "I saw them eyeing us, and we returned the hostile glares." (McCall 66)
• allusion- "...we expected to pick up the mantle when our time came." (McCall 63)

1 Overview Sentence

1. Nathan McCall starts out as a smart kid but as he gets older he begins living the life of a gangster.
   

I Got It!

Hey guys an gals, guess what? i have finally gotten by biography book. the tile of it is Makes Me Wanna Holler. It's by Nathan McCall about Nathan McCall. It's a memoir and it is about how him being a young black boy in America. On the back of the book, it explains that Nathan was a smart kid but by age 15, he beginns embarking on a criminal career.

Hey Everyone!

Hey guys and gals! i do not have my ROAR book yet due to library card issues but trust me, I'll get a book.......somehow and whatever it is, it'll be good!