The Serial Killer and the Skilled Architect
“Étant la plus saisissante manifestation de l'art des constructions métalliques par lesquelles nos ingénieurs se sont illustrés en Europe, elle est une des formes les plus frappantes de notre génie national moderne” according to Gustave Eiffel. Talented architects built the Eiffel Tower for the World’s Fair in 1889. The Eiffel Tower towered over France as an amazing architectural wonder. Although Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel reaped the reward for building the Eiffel tower, the real architect, Maurice Koechlin, received little credit. Likewise, the Ferris Wheel is a well-known ride and holds a special place in many Americans’ hearts throughout the United States. Architects built the Ferris Wheel to rival …show more content…
Some people believe that the eyes are the window to the soul, and H.H.Holmes, the serial killer from The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, appeared to have a “clear and blue” gaze (The Devil in the White City 37). Looks from pretty girls “fell around him like wind-blown petals” because Holmes always “looked fresh and crisp” whenever he was in public (The Devil in the White City 35). Robin Williams was a popular, talented actor, but only those closest to him knew that he was struggling with some sort of illness. Many people in society were shocked when he all of a sudden killed himself. In her special editorial called “the Terrorist Inside My Husband’s Brain,” Susan Schneider Williams- Robin Williams wife- shares the story of her husbands fight with his mental illness. Williams was a trained actor, so his wife “will never know the true depth of his suffering” because he fought so hard to keep it hidden. Although Williams “was diagnosed with Parkinson Disease,” Williams didn’t seem convinced with this diagnosis because “he was most likely keeping the depth of his symptoms to himself” (Williams). Williams accomplished everything the doctor told him to do up until his death: he …show more content…
Erik Larson argues that people should not use other human's outward appearance to delineate their entire personality because looks can be deceiving, but the serial killer at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, H.H.Holmes, was in fact noticed by his previous love interests and acquaintances. Amid all the change and work in Chicago “it was understandable that the work of a young and handsome doctor would go unnoticed” because H.H.Holmes appeared to be a young, handsome, and charming doctor, not a serial killer (The Devil in the White City 6). However, people began noticing Holmes’s strange behavior before he even went to Chicago. After he got married at 17 and had his first child 9 months later, H.H. Holmes decided to “pursue is interest in medicine,” but he portrayed himself as a single man throughout his time at the medical institute (Biographics). He had affairs with multiple different girls while in medical school, but all of them ended because they found out he was already married. Similarly, the owner of the boardhouse’s wife found a dead baby under Holmes’s bed, but she just warned him not to bring anymore dead bodies into the house. Uh what?! She found a dead body and just told him to not to it again?! Next, H.H.Holmes “went to Ann Arbor to