The Devil in the White City

5- Comments
- The black City was known for Chicago. In Chicago, people get lost really quickly that when a person get lost, the people says that that person is never seen again. Around 1800s, Chicago use to be a dangerous place to live especially for young girls/woman. James Addams, the reformer who founded Chicago’s Hull House wrote “ Never before in civilization have such numbers of young girls been suddenly released from protection of the homes and permitted to walk unattended upon the city streets and to work under alien roofs”.
- On March 30, 1890, an officer of the first National Bank placed a warning in the help-wanted section of the Chicago Tribune, to inform female stenographers of there growing conviction that no thoroughly honorable business-man…… So the females were more in danger in Chicago than men’s.
- In Chicago, many people are died in there young age, that death came early and often in Chicago. Approximate, two people died in a horrified way or a common death. There are men killing woman and woman killing men (at one another) and children’s killing each other or themselves by accident. This time of year was around 1892. Some of the polices didn’t had gun power to keep the balance of criminals and murders in a low balance. The police didn’t had enough equipment to do there job.
- In February 24, 1890, two thousand people gathered on the sidewalk and streets outside the office of the Chicago Tribune, as similar crowds collected at each of the city’s twenty-eight other daily newspapers and in hotels lobbies….. The people that was in the gathering were business men’s, clerks, traveling salesmen, polices, stenographers and maybe one barber.
-Chicago’s population had topped one million people, making them the second most popular in the nation (New York is on top, that has the most people).
4 -Question
- Why Chicago is also known for the black city?
- Why don’t the people of Chicago wont help the situation of Chicago?
- What was the meaning of going and gathering people on the sidewalk outside of the Chicago office?
- How did Chicago became the second most popular in the nation if people are died?
3-Vocabulary
Lackluster = a lack of brilliance or vitality.
Grotesque = odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd.
Prosaic = commonplace or dull.
2 - Literary Terms
Imagery = moved into the Rookery at La Salle and Adams, a gorgeous light-filled structure of root’s design, they saw views of the lake and the city that no one but constructive workers had seen before.
Characterization = Soon a different men appear in the tribune window. He was tall, thin and young and wore a black beard.
1 -Overview
This section is about the time in Chicago, the construction of the skyscraper, the situation that happened in Chicago.