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.