From the very beginning, Larson begins describing the white city and her evil twin sister, the dark city. In many of the descriptions, readers can already see the contrasts sharply rising out of the pages. An example of this would be “It got bigger, taller, and richer; but it also grew dirtier, darker and more dangerous” (27). Larson employs the literary device, antithesis to convey that as the city grew in beauty and size, it also grew in wickedness. The parallel structure of the above quotation along with the contrasting ideas produced by it, leaves readers with an ominous image of two sides, good and evil. It seems as though everything good has a dark parallel to it. Larson continues this theme throughout the book even in the building of