The Devil In The White City

The book is getting super interesting now. I love this book especially the chapters that involve Holmes because they can convince of one thing but then they switch it up. I think the chapters about the architects and the ones about Holmes are connected and I think they are going to somehow just like have this wicked twist at the end I can feel it. Holmes is such a creepy guy, he made a furnace that fits the diescription of a station for the cremation of bodies and it was like a torture chamber in there. I'm starting to get scared but its an exciting scared beacause this Holmes is an interesting character. I think they describe the people so beautifully its like if they were making a painting of them but its just to tell the police how they looked. I think that Burnham is going to die because he was always talked about, but then again it might be Root because the book hasn't talked much about him so they are expecting you to think its Burnham and after they got you on the edge of your seat they will get you to fall off. I don't know but maybe I'm over analyzing this story but thats what I think is going to happen. Holmes is slick but it'll catch up to him someday.

The Devil In The White City

This next section I read was great but I think that there is a pattern in this book. I think that they make one chapter boring then they the next chapter they hit you with the most interesting chapter. This section was not so interesting because they give alot of dates and historical events that I don't care about and this chapter ewas confusing. It is called Pilgrimage sounds boring too. Well it wasn't that bad, but it talked about how Burnham had to go to New York to get good architects for the Worlds Fair because not many of the architects here are good enough to do a job of this scale. Everyone found out and they all thought that he was a traitor to his own city by bringing in people from another state to cooperate with them. The chicagoans didn't really like that, but there wasn't any time to let pride get in the way. I would've just let it go but these people were stubborn. Later, they all accepted but they still had a feeling that it wasn't going to work out for their indifferences. Everyone in the country thought that Chicago would've have the time to be able to make something so big because to make a structure of the size they were going to make it, it would take years but they had to finish in a matter of months. There was no support coming from the citizens even though they were all happy that Chicago won the contest for hosting the Worlds Fair. Everyone was saying that Chicago was ugly and that structure they were trying to built was going to disgrace the country. I thought that everyone hated Chicago then, I think that now Chicago is better in industry and pollution wise because in the book it explains how nasty and gray the sky would look from all the smoke. It sounded very ugly. There was also a part that caught my attention, was that many of Burnham and Roots partners are saying that both of them are hogging the fame and they deserve credit too. I think they are just trying to ruin everything with a scandal so the other architects would get the job and Burnham and Root would have to be out of a job.Some people are so vicious when it comes to fame and fortune. I think that when this world learns to control thier jealousy it would just a little bit nicer. All this competition is killing everyone. Someone always has to overpower somebody, or become more famous than somebody....Its sickening. :P

The Devil In The White City

I read a new section called "Don't be afraid" I predicted that this chapter would have someone die, but I was wrong but there was some attemped murder. The book had me convinced that Holmes was a nice person but then something happened that made me change my mind quick. He asked someone to drop a rock on his brother-in-law and he would pay them extra cash if they did it. I was so shocked I was actually scared. Also when he met that girl Myrta he was obsessed with her and then when they got married and got her pregnant he hardly spent time with her. I thought that was mean to do because who knows if she had her life planned out already, but he was too busy running his neighborhood drugstore. Which he only used to meet girls. Then he found three guys that would do the dirty work, which i thought that was sort of scary how there are people like that. I knew that Myrta was going to get jealous of all the girls coming in to the drugstore just to flirt with Holmes, I mean I would get jealous too. The whole book basically sounds like an interrogation because all the answers to the many questions are so descriptive that it isn't even necessary. They also talked about Englewood so nicely like if it was a beautiful neighborhood, but if you go there now its not the prettiest sight to see. Holmes spent his time coming up with blueprints for a new building that he was planning on building, and he said that the idea of hiring women to work in all those clothe shops aroused him which I thought was creepy. Holmes also met a man named Pitezel and he has many children, the point is that one of his children were born out of wetlock and everybody was so disappointed in the man. My question is why was wetlock so bad? They described Pitezel as Holmes' creature which I thought was really mean because it makes it seem as if he owns him. When the book explained how interested Holmes was in Jack the Ripper I found that scary and declared him an official pyscho for now because I know something will happen that would make me stick with this idea. I just hope he doesn't get any ideas from Jack the Ripper because he is already an extremely creepy guy and I suspected since the beginning. He also sold the drugstore and promised the new owner that he wouldn't have any competition, but as soon as the person agreed he opened up another drugstore and stole the other guy's thunder on purpose!! The book is getting really interesting, I can't wait to read the next chapter! :D

The Devil In The White City

This book is so interesting! So far I read alot in a few pages. I think that someone is going to die soon. I think its one of the people that work with Burnham and Root because they speak of each character with such beauty it kind of gives it away. It feels as the author is connecting each character one by one. So everytime I read that they add another character I have to watch what they do because I have to be able to infer who's going to die or kill someone. I think everyone is going to turn into somebody dark. The author puts in so much detail its not even necessary. I think he is doing it for a reason, he also gives you a history lesson on the whole Chicago history throughout the happenings in the book. I predict one character is going to betray another thats going to cause an uprise in the city. The city sounds ugly from the way the author explains it. The people in the book really didn't like this city so much, they were always toalking so badly about it. The closer it got to the day of the World Fair the less supportive everyone got. I thought that was pretty mean! The book is starting to get interesting though its sounds as if that doctor, I think his name is Holmes, is going to be a Hannibal Lector type of killer which is crazy but possible with all the violence I'm reading about. Everything and Anything is possible in this book right now! :)

The Start of "The Devil In The White City"

Well I started my second book "Devil In The White City", so far I love the book its giving me a great history lesson. Did you know that the Sears Tower is not the first skyscraper in Chicago it was some other building that was only ten stories high. I'm starting to get into this book but at first I thought that the book was going to be boring because it only talked about the architechture in Chicago. Then its started talking about this underground group of murderers who got the message of the World's Fair being hosted in Chicago are plotting something against the people to make it unforgettable. I think that they are gonna kidnap some important people that attend it because they talked about how sometimes they would jsut kidnap celebrities for fun and torture them. I've realized that Burhnam one of the architects in the story is headed for some real trouble by the way they describe his very unbalanced career lately. He sometimes fails but then comes back with a bang, I think if he doesn't take care of him self something going to happen.

My Thoughts

This book has been tremendously good I think I am going to read it again this summer after I finish Devil In The White City this year. It is a really good book I recommend it to everybody who enjoys reading fine peices of literature. And I also think that you make many connections to different things in life. It also teaches you many lessons, like loyalty and friendship all that good stuff.

This book is very graphic and it makes it interesting to me when its graphic and detailed. It makes me feel like I'm there when I read it. I hope every body who reads it gets the same experience I did.

~~~~ ELIZABETH BAUTISTA~~~~

Lord of the Flies the "Cry of the Hunters"

I was so surprised that the children in the other tribe would go as far as to hurt Ralph. They actually threw a spear at him and no one was seen to be blamed which is horrible. I think they ran and had not let Ralph see who they were because they were afraid that Ralph would back at them most likely. They know what Ralph is capable of so much more than they seen him react to.

I think that Ralph is like a JESUS figure type because they stabbed him the spear in his rib like in the movie Passion Of The Christ. The way his own people turned their backs on him after what he did for him. Thats what happened to Ralph the group of children turned against him after he organized the whole group. Its so much like it I swear. That what I can relate it to.

The shock of Piggy getting killed really hasn't gone away, I mean it was so graphic. The way they threw that boulder and fooled him it almost made me cry for him its so horrible!! Ralph was devasted his only friend now he has to fend on his own. And they destroyed the conch so thats gone he has nothing.

Its like if the country doesn't shape up we are going to end up splitting up and the same thing is going to happen, hell will break loose and there will be more people killing people than ever.