The twins sat down in class. One was kind and charming, the other was intelligent and had a great future in store. Being twins you would think they were very similar but secretly they were different. Sitting in class, no classmate would think that they were sitting next to a new definition of evil. In Erick Larson's The Devil in the 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 all is not what it seems. Larson's style is to add irreverent stories together so that the two main protagonists highlight each other's traits, one of which is their ambition. Both Holmes and Burnham are ambitious but in two different ways, which shows that ambition can make or break one. Why 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 advocated for the Chicago World's Fair to be more amazing than the Paris Exposition, as expressed by him by saying, “Make no small plans; they have no magic to move the blood of men and will probably not be fulfilled. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble and logical diagram, once recorded, will not die” (Larson 1). With his “no small projects” he tries to explain that the Exhibition cannot have limits. His vision is to create a "White City" and he would achieve it no matter what. His great ambition was to surpass Paris and he finally succeeded, but Holmes had different plans. Burnham thought that if he had one big, huge exhibition, Chicago would always be remembered as a White City... in the center of the paper... with no jobs for the people who created poverty due to the scarcity of money. Many, stressed and worried about their family's well-being, 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 many Chicago will always be the White City created by the World Columbian Exposition. In The Devil in the White City, by Erick Larson, the protagonist Holmes was shown as a new definition of evil. The twins were very different, one became what no one expected; he would become a mass murderer. He was known to be kind and charming and it was the exact opposite of irony because it wasn't expected. The twin shows that ambition can make or break one and that all is not as it seems. Ultimately they both had different ambitions that took them down different and separate paths.