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'No' By Erik Larson Summary

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“There would be no Jubilee March, no landing by Columbus, no address Harlow Higinbotham, George Davis, or Bertha Palmer; no presentation of awards, no praise for Burnham and Olmsted; no ‘Hail Columbia’; no mass rendition of ‘Auld Lang Syne’” (Larson 331). The repetition of the the word “no” and the long sentence structure allows Erik Larson to express to his readers how much was planned for the end of the fair and all the disappointment that was caused by this sudden death of Harrison. Making the sentence structure long, Larson’s conveys to his readers the amount of effort and all the activities that were planned for the end of the fair. By the repetition of the word “no” is clearly purposeful to show how none of the many planned activities …show more content…

Referring to the closing of the chicago world fair, Larson compares the feeling as “the death of a dear friend,” by doing this the readers can better relate to the remorseful feeling of such a lose. Larson knows that many of his readers have, in some way, lost a loved one, so by comparing this feeling to the death of a loved one, the readers can fully comprehend the feelings going on in each individual of Chicago. Therefore, by using this simile Larson’s readers are able to relate to the remorseful feeling in the city of …show more content…

Larson describes Holmes lies as a “florid ornamentation,” Which demonstrates to his readers how his lies were decorated. With decorating his lies it allowed Holmes to suppress to what he was trying to keep hidden and instead make it look better than what it actually was. Larson states how his stories were decorated with “flamboyant draperies” that Holmes used to “strengthen the plausibility of his statements” further proving that how Holmes would decorate his stories to make himself look better. Holmes would also have an appearance that made him look iniscent and would continue to act like he was; Holmes would be “uttering his words” and have a “moistened eye.” By using this interesting word choice Larson further illustrates to his readers how Holmes is trying to act innocent by pretending to be nervous and scared. Larson is able to convey to his readers how innocent Holmes was trying to be by using an interesting word choice towards his

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