The Devil in the White city

5 -comments
- Mudgett lived in Gilmanton that was a small farming village in New Hampshire’s lake country. His fathers name was Levi and he was a farmer. He has a brother and a sister. His parents were devout Methodists whose response to even routines misbehavior. Mudgett was like a mama’s boy (“mothers boy”) because he stays alone in his room reading Jules Verne and invents things. His best friend was an older child named Tom who was killed in the fall while the boys were playing a game.
-When Mudgett was 16 years old he graduated school (doesn’t tell if he went to a high school, or what school he was in) and despite his age to get a job. Mudgett felt in love with a woman named Clara A. Lovering. They loved each other so much. They got married in July 4, 1878 before a justice of peace. At nineteen, he went to collage. He enrolled a medical program in the University of Vermont in Burlington. He found the school too small so, he transfer to the university of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
- Mudgett graduated from the university of Vermont in Ann Arbor. He graduated with a lackluster record. He took out to find some “ favorable location”. Then he went to New York and the Chicago tribune hired him as a school principle.
- Mudgett needed more money because the money that he is earning of his teaching salary wasn’t enough. He said “starvation was staring me in the face”. He and his Canadian friend was making some sort of plan of buying a life insurance and fake death. His friend and him was going to do there plan of faking death with a family of three. The three people body would turn up later and Mudgett and his friend would divide the $40,000 dollars (that is more than one million dollars in our present day).
- When Mudgett found out about the consequences about there scheme, they would get in big trouble. That the doctor would know what was happening and Mudgett was afraid. He took a train to Chicago and renamed himself as Holmes.

4 - Question
- why didn’t Mudgett another job and not do a stupid thing like faking death?
- How much was the teacher salary?
- What happened to Mudgett wife when they did there plan?
-Did the situation got any better?

3 -Vocabulary
Mortgaging = a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
Dwindled = to become smaller and smaller
Convenient = Suited or favorable to one's comfort, purpose, or needs
2 - Literary Terms
Characterization = Word spread that a young, handsome, and apparently unmarried young doctor now stood behind the counter, an increasing of woman (single) come and buy what they don’t need just to talk to him.
Simile = Chicago was like a big dump.
1 -Overview
This part of the book is about when a young men do something illegal and he is trying to do something about it.