• Names in this time-era are odd .
• Alot of women found H.H.Holmes very attractive; some even stalked him.
• The city in Chicago are very close together, (buildings, streets, its all very compact)
• Holmes is very generous; offered a lady a better building/business
• Holmes enjoyed reading stuff by Edgar Allen Poe

4Questions

• What is a coroner's inquest?
• Where was root?
• Where was Holmes headed at first?
• How did the people of Gilmanton hear news/ what was going on?

3Vocabulary

• Conjuring: to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly
• Commission: a formal written warrant granting the power to perform various acts or duties
• Amplify: To make larger or more powerful; increase.

2Literary Devices

• Allusion/Metaphor?: Heat rose from the streets with the intensity of a child's fever.
• Simile: "As he moved through the station, the glances of young women fell around him like wind-blown petals"(pg 35).

1Sumamrizing Sentence

• This section of the book is about H.H.Holmes, his lifestyle and how he helps out people in the community