5Comments
- Pride was something not taken lightly in Chicago during those times
- Burnham and Root were designing the construction of the fair
- Burnham travels alot (both around and out the country)
- $22, 500 = $675,000 Alot of money.
- The style back then was being bald and having a large beard.
4Questions
- Why doesn't Olmsted design fairs?
- What made Olmsted prone to depression so easily?
- What was the temperature the day that the heat wave killed 17 people?
- What was Olmsted's major opinion on Burnham? - confusing
3Vocabulary
- Bravado: Defiant or swaggering behavior
- Allotted: To parcel out; distribute or apportion
- Eviscerating: To remove the entrails of; disembowel.
2Literary Devices
- Metaphor: "we are always personally under an agitating pressure and cloud of anxiety"(pg 51)
- Irony: "a heat wave had brutalized the city killing seventeen people including a man named Christ"(pg 52)
1Summarizing Sentence
- This section of the book is about the experiences Olmstead has, what type of works he does and Facts about Chicago's brutal past.