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.