Damn...

I spoke to soon. In My last post, I went on and on about how I was craving for something interesting to happen. I babbled about how I wanted the story to stop plateauing and get to work. I was tired with the only problem being that the architects couldn't work together and all that nonsense.

But I was wrong.

Ending Part one, I am left with a little sadness. Larson finally brings about death in his story, however, it wasn't who I was suspecting. All the while, I was waiting for Holmes to begin killing, attacking harmless women in the Chicago area. I was especially expecting him to do terrible things, what with Larson's mention of Jack the Ripper earlier in the story. However, I was not expecting that Root, friend and colleague of Burnham, would be one of the first to go.

Throughout the story, his health did seem in question. Occasionally he'd miss meetings due to tiredness and what not, but the fact that he was taken from their lives from pneumonia is just terrible, especially looking at the disease today. Pneumonia isn't even that deadly now, but back then, it could be fatal. I think the worst part of it all is that Root seemed to be getting better, as though he was getting over the disease.

I think the way Larson informed the reader that Root had died was so blunt that I almost didn't believe it myself. The section reads, "As Burnham talked with [Root's wife], a relative also entered the room. She told them Root was dead." After reading that, I had to go back to read it again because I thought I had missed something. The six word sentence "She told them Root was dead" was so blunt and in your face that it almost felt unbelievable, as if this was some T.V. drama where they say Root is dead but he comes back five episodes later to shock the other characters, only faking his death for some greater purpose.

As Part one comes to a close, and the architects seem to have come together, this story should continue on its rise up, putting all of its plateaus in its past.