In the story “The Adventures of the Speckled Band,” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle describes how Sherlock Holmes solves the mystery of Julia Stoner’s death. This story takes place in early April in 1883, at the residence of Stoke Moran, in London. Sherlock Holmes, a determined, observant detective is one of the main characters. Dr. John Watson, another main character, is a loyal, brave, and compassionate medical doctor. Helen Stoner is a wise, timid, and worrisome young woman. Lastly, Dr. Grimesby Roylott is a criminal who is aggressive, violent, and abusive. Helen and her sister Julia went to live with Dr. Roylott, their stepfather, after their mother died. While staying with him, Julia faced her demise on the eve of her wedding. She had continuously …show more content…
Roylott’s safe, a dog leash, and a cage. These new clues hinted that there might have been another pet, which Dr. Roylott kept hidden. Sherlock and Dr. Watson developed a plan with Helen, to stay overnight. In the middle of that night, Sherlock and Dr. Watson heard a low whistling noise, exactly how Helen described it. The sound brought them to Dr. Roylott’s room. When they opened the door, they found Dr. Roylott dead, with an Indian snake nearby. This was the resolution to the story. The resolution to the conflict between Helen and Dr. Roylott was that Helen would not be killed by Dr. Roylott; however, since he died, she received all the money. As for the conflict between Sherlock and Dr. Roylott, the resolution was that Sherlock no longer had to be worried about crossing paths with Dr. Roylott again. Lastly, society would benefit from Dr. Roylott’s demise, since they would no longer be bothered by him. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were content when Dr. Roylott died. They already formed a conclusion regarding to the cause of Julia’s death, prior to entering Dr. Roylott’s bedroom. Helen did not mind the death of her stepfather. All in all, Sherlock and Dr. Watson were extremely smart while uncovering the solution to the
Mrs. Abbott began to describe her story and the purpose of the detectives’ invitations. Her husband, Mr. Abbott, was alive, but without thought or movement. Mr. Abbott,
In the speckled band the detectives showed a lot of empathy towards Mary as they were her husband’s work colleagues, they also consumed food within the crime scene, which was breaking the rules, therefore with their own mistakes they ate the weapon (leg of lamb) and they weren’t as effective as they should’ve been, whereas they were liable, to being the ones to help destroy the weapon. They were more sympathetic. Comparing that to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who were more dedicated to their work, they prepared carefully inorder to work out the criminal mentality.
‘Watership Down’ is a book and a film by Richard Adams that focuses on commitment, survival, faith, and not giving up. This novel and film tell the fictional story of a group of rabbits that flee their warren they once knew in order to survive from mankind's development.
In this essay, I am going to look at how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has
my God! Helen! It was the band! The Speckled band!" In the Lamb to the
As an investigator, Sherlock Holmes was not guilty for the demise of Dr. Roylott. The story, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, when in the room of Helen Stoner, waited for evidence for the cause of Julia Stoner’s death. When both men traveled to the room of Dr. Roylott, they saw that Dr. Roylott was dead, with the speckled band-the deadliest snake in India- wrapped around Dr. Roylott’s head. The cause of Dr.Roylott’s death was not Sherlock Holmes’s accountability. Dr. Roylott had knowledge about animals from India; therefore he should have been able to control the snake. Additionally, Dr. Roylott never ended up dying when trying to kill Julia,
Through out the story, Roylott is overall presented as threatening, dangerous and a intelligent man. This can be identified through his appearance, behaviour and motives, there is also evidence of this personality in the story. Also, Conan Doyle uses various phrases and words to describe him which suggests the man to be dangerous.
I found this story very exciting but most of all I like the part when
The meeting of Helen Stoner is very important. She is described as having veiled and fully black attire. This suggests that she is in mourning. She is also described as having frightened eyes, like those of a hunted animal, and being very agitated and trembling. Conan Doyle regularly uses this technique of showing the reader the symptom before a cause is established.
Due to Holmes’ suspicion he and Watson desired to investigate further; they departed to Stoke Moran. They revealed some interesting clues. First of all, the bed was clamped to the floor, there were metallic bars on the windows, along with a forged bell chord attached to a ventilator. Holmes soon found out that the ventilator was connected to Dr. Roylott 's room. This made Sherlock curious, wanting to know more. Helen was a young woman who was frightened of the strong and abusive, Dr. Roylott. She had prearranged to switch places with Sherlock and Watson so they could resolve the case once and for all. She exchanged places after Dr. Roylott was “asleep”. When Sherlock and Holmes arrived to Stoke Moran, they waited and waited. During the middle of the story, both the mood and tone shift. The mood soon became petrified. The tone soon also became something else, challenging. Sherlock Holmes and
“The Yellow Wallpaper” was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and illustrates many patriarchal and feminist views. We see the very strict gender roles that the characters seem to be confined in. John is confined to the idea that males are to be the head of the household, decisive and rational thinkers. The narrator, on the other hand, is tied to her gender role of being submissive to her husband and not questioning his judgement. She constantly tries to break these rules by suggestion ideas to her husband, but he dismisses her without thought. When the narrator first notices the yellow wallpaper in the bedroom and asks if they can replace it John simply tells her that she was just letting the wallpaper get the best of her and if the wallpaper
Good morning! Thanks so much for your encouragement and helps in the last summer for my first summer internship in Bobcat Bellies (BB). It is my second summer intern in BB now, and I really intend to contribute my strength and bring benefits to the company. Thus, I would like to send the letter of self-recommendation to you about the position of sales associate. I am ready to take more responsibility for BB and have strong confidence to expand our business and bring more new clients to our company. There are three reason that shows how I am completely qualified for the new position.
The ending of The Hound of the Baskervilles is not how one would expect a regular novel to end, however, since the beginning of the story started in the same way, the ending was somewhat expected. The story’s expectations are all resolved in the last chapter as we are given explanations for all of the unanswered questions we have gathered over the course of the story as well as gaining some more knowledge on some of the characters, such as Stapleton. We learn his real name is actually Rodger Baskerville and had before lived in South America. Once the case of the hound has been solved, it makes sense to end it with just Holmes and Watson talking, because it gives the reader the perspective that they have now returned to their “normal life” and
to kill Helen Stoner was so he would not have to give his late wife's
In the story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” the author Conan Doyle portrays many different narrative techniques. He uses these techniques to provide meaning for the audience as well as help them visualize the situation that was being described. The different techniques used are narrative discourse, suspense, conflict, close, and focalization in his story. Narrative discourses are events, to describe a series of events that are contingent one on another. Typically focuses on one or more performers of actions. Personal experience can influence narrative discourse due to the explaining of significant events in the life of the narrator. Narrative discourse is made up of exposition/ setting, developing conflict, climax, final suspense, and conclusion. The narrative discourse is being portrait in the story by Sherlock trying to find the mystery. Helen Stoner goes to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for help on figuring out the mystery of her sister’s death, and they both investigate. It all begins with the renovation that was done to the room. Holmes arrived to Dr. Grimesby Roylott’s home in order to investigate the noise that his daughter seemed to be hearing from the bedroom that the sister was killed in. Holmes describes the room “very strange” he found the ventilator open into another room as well as the bell-rope. The ventilator was the small opening between two rooms as well as the bed was fastened to the floor. “A ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who