Essay On The Devil In The White City

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The book, The Devil in the White City, takes place during the late nineteenth century. During that time, the total picture of the late nineteenth - century America that emerges from The Devil in the White City is very different than now. The total picture that emerges from the book is that each individual was naive, transportation was slow, and the streets were mostly always busy. There were rich people, people who had big dreams, and around this time people were being creative and inventing new things. One of the things invented during this time was the typewriter. The fair, which was being built during this time lured in thousand of people. Since the city became really big, industries and business began to increase. The nineteenth - century …show more content…

We have better phones to communicate better, we have better access to internet and they didn't have internet back then. There are more stricter laws to protect. Some of those laws are for driving, for example to wear seat belts, a certain speed limits, and age limit to drive. Some more differences consist of transportation, what people wear, and the way we speak. Back then transportation was really slow because people traveled by carriages there were also trains, but now we have better transportations to get to places faster. What we wear is way different than what people wore back then. During the nineteenth century people wore dresses and suits and there weren't many people that wore just pants and t-shirts. But now people wear pants and t-shirts all the time, they also wear dresses but they are different then the dresses back then. The way we speak is different than how people spoke back then. We have different slang words and we word are sentences different now. These are just few of the differences. The nineteenth - century mirrors the present because we have the same determination to move forward. Major business companies and industries want to move forward and make a lot of money. That time also mirrors the present because we have the same type of the dark side. We have still have psychopaths that enjoy killing and we still have criminals that do evil deeds. These are just few of the things that mirrors the present

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