The twins sat in their homeroom. One was sweet and charming, and the other was intelligent and had a great future in store. As twins, you would think they looked a lot alike, but secretly they were different. Sitting in class, no classmate would think they are sitting next to a new definition of evil. In Erick Larson's The Devil in White City, he decides to include different styles of ambition and appearance versus reality to illustrate that ambition can break one or make one and that all n It's not what it seems. Larson's style is to add irreverent storylines so that the two main protagonists highlight each other's traits, one of them being their ambition. Both Holmes and Burnham are ambitious, but in two different ways, showing that ambition can make one or break one. How do they have different ambitions? Let’s take their work as an example. Burnham is an architect and Holmes is a doctor. When you have different jobs, you aspire to different things. Burnham in the novel strove for the Chicago World's Fair to be more striking than the Paris World's Fair, as he expressed it by saying, “Make no small plans; they have no magic to stir the blood of men and are unlikely to come true themselves. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble and logical diagram once recorded will not die” (Larson 1). By saying “no small projects”, he tries to explain that the Exhibition cannot have limits. His vision is to create a “white city” and he was going to achieve it no matter what. His great ambition was to overtake Paris and he succeeded in the end, but Holmes had different plans. Burnham believed that if he made a big, huge exhibition, Chicago would always be remembered as a white city... middle of paper... but jobs for people who created poverty because of lack of money. Many people stressed and worried about the well-being of their families have resorted to violence to make ends meet. After the fair, everything returned to its normal form, the Black City that many did not know existed, too often Chicago will always be the White City created by the World Columbian Exposition. In Erick Larson's The Devil in the White City, the protagonist Holmes is presented as a new definition of evil. The twins were very different and it became what no one expected; he was going to become a mass murderer. He was known for being sweet and charming and he was the complete opposite ironic because it's not expected. The twin shows that ambition can make one or break one and that all is not what it seems. In the end, the two had different ambitions, which led them down different and separate paths..