Harry Houdini Essay

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Life Story of Harry Houdini Magic is a mysterious and preternatural art that creates illusion by using tricks. For many centuries, it has been a performing art that entertains the audience. Even though people know that most magic tricks are fake, they are still amazed by it. Creative magicians, such as David Copperfield, are able to keep his audience in interest by coming up with new ideas that surprise them. However, out of all these successful magicians, Harry Houdini was the most famous and influential magician in the 20th century. He was really the fist most successful person to bring escape magic to the public as an entertainment. Harry Houdini was born on March 24, 1874 in Budapest, Hungry and died in Detroit in 1926. Many claimed that Houdini was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, but then according to Houdini’s birth record and early family records in the Harry Houdini Museum, it states that he was born in Budapest. He was one of six children in the family of Rabbi Mayer Weisz and his second wife, Cecilia Steiner. His real name was Ehrich Weiss. He was poorly educated, but he was extremely athletic. In 1878, he moved to America with his family. Houdini first became fascinated with magic when he was a young boy, after watching Dr. Lynn, a traveling magician, perform the Linking Ring trick. There were legends that said he went to join a circus and he was an apprentice of a locksmith, however, these are all not true. He actually worked in a factory before he turned to magic at the age of 17. From a young age, he begun working as a messenger, a cutter in a garment center, and worked in a tie factory to help support his family after his father’s death on 1892. At the age of 17, he started his magic career. He teamed up with Jack Hayman to form a group called the Houdini Brothers. The name “Houdini” was from the most famous magician from that era, Jean Eugene

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