The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Again)

          I have continued reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. One thing I noticed while reading was that Doyle get really descriptive in the story The Blue Carbuncle while describing a hat that is part of Holmes' latest case. He describes every feature of the hat, even the stains and smells. While reading the description, it was like I had the hat with me and I could see exactly what it looked like. He even went as far as to describe the little marks from a pen that was used to keep the hat looking a little bit better.


          Doyle also describes people's reactions well, like when Holmes is asking a salesman who sells geese, he gets really mad for absolutely no reason, he really goes into detail about how the person spoke when he was asked questions. Doyle did a great job with how in depth he went with the descriptions, he didn't go overboard and bore the readers and he didn't leave the readers clueless of where the story is or what is happening.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Again)

        I have been reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and haven't gotten much farther in it, I've not been able to read much this week. From what I have read though, I can see that Doyle has used the theme of revenge in one of the stories. The story he used the theme of revenge in is The Five Orange Pips, where his new client's family has been receiving threats from the old terror group, the K.K.K. His father and uncle had both received threat letter containing pips from an orange. a while after they get them, they end up dead, when the bodies are found, they always look like an accident, but it was just members from the K.K.K assassinating them. When Holmes' client gets the letter, he is assassinated and Holmes' goes into a fit of rage and swears revenge on them, the story ends there.

         Something I think Doyle did well in the book is that he describes everything that is happening to the people Holmes' is talking to or that Holmes is trying to help. He shows how they react to everything Holmes says that shocks them and that makes them realize something. He emphasizes the clients reactions and their realizations. He makes the reader see how the person reacts rather than just read it.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

          I have been reading "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" over the break. I think one of themes in this book is betrayal. This theme only appears in one of the stories I've read so far. It's the second or third story in the book.

          The betrayal in that story is that a stepfather goes incognito as a man that works in a post office and pretends to fall in love with his stepdaughter and makes her swear to wait for him to return once he goes missing. He only betrayed her because he didn't want her to interact with any other men because he's antisocial and overprotective.

          I think it's interesting that the author decided to make the book in the perspective of Sherlock Holmes' sidekick, Watson. It makes it so that you get an up close look at Holmes' entire process of problem solving. It gives you a look at what it's like to be friends with Holmes and hear his amazing deductions explained. This makes the stories a little more realistic because you know what it's like to be on the sidelines.