The Devil in the White City

5 - Comments
- Holmes dreamed and sketched the feature of his building becoming more elaborated and satisfying but, it was only a dream phase. Holmes could imagined the pleasure that would fill his days when the buildings was finished and flesh-and-blood women moved among its features and as always, the thought aroused him.
- He was thinking that constructing a building won’t be easy, that it would be a challenge. He devised/ created a strategy that he believed it would not only allay suspicions but, also reduce the cost of construction. He placed newspaper advertisements for carpenters and laborers, and soon workers with teams of horses would begin excavating the land.
- Holmes became/ cast himself as a demanding contractor and as soon workers came to him for their wages, he berated them for doing shoddy work and refused to pay them, even when the workers were doing perfect work. He didn’t like giving money away to anybody. Everybody quit, or he fired them so anyways, the worker would have to find another job anyways. He fired the workers, gets new people to fill in for them and treat them the same way he treated the others. This process was going slow but for a good cost said “ Holmes”.
- A bricklayer named George Bowman found the experience of working for Holmes somewhat chilling. George bowman told Holmes to throw a brick to his brother-in-law and they don’t get well with each other. George told him that when that “incidents” happen, that he would give Holmes fifty dollars.
- Three men did meet Holmes’s standard of trustworthiness and each worker for him throughout the period of construction and continued to associate with him after the building was completed.
4 - Question
- Why didn’t Holmes pay the workers what they earned? Why was Holmes was building/ construction a building?
- Why was Holmes was thinking of hitting a man with a brick that George told him to? do? Would he do it for money and agreed with George?
- Would Holmes pay every worker there money that they earn or not?
- If Holmes don’t pay what the workers needed the amount to get pay, would they destroy the building?
3 - Vocabulary
- wholly = In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly.
- chute = an inclined channel, as a trough, tube, or shaft, for conveying water, grain, coal, etc., to a lower level.
- embedded = To enclose snugly or firmly
2 - Literary terms
- Simile = His presence was like oil on troubled water.
- Personification = Olmsted is a wild animal that is getting lost
1 - Overview
- this part of the story is about when Holmes is construction a building of his own with worker he don’t want to pay.