Book Report Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a non-fictional book and were written by Robert Louis Stevenson. The characters in the book are Mr. Gabriel John Utterson, who is a prominent and upstanding lawyer; Mr. Enfield is a distant cousin and lifelong friend of Utterson. Mr. Guest is Utterson’s clerk and confidant. Sir Danvers Carew is a Member of Parliament, and a client of Utterson, Dr. Hastie Lanyon is a reputable London doctor. Dr. Henry Jekyll is a doctor and a friend of Lanyon and Utterson. Mr. Poole is Jekyll butler, and Mr. Edward Hyde is a strange man who looks faintly deformed. The story of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” took place in London. As I started reading this story it starts speaking of Utterson and Enfield on their weekly walk. While there on their walk Enfield tells Utterson a gruesome story about a Mr. Hyde who had trampled over a little girl. Then disappears into a door and reappear to pay the little girl’s family with a check signed by a gentleman. Then later on in the story it turns out that a client of Utterson has written a will that gives all of his property to the same Mr. Hyde. Soon after that Utterson starts developing bad
nightmares about a faceless person stalking him so he goes and see two of his friends Lanyon and Jekyll. Later Utterson starts staking out a building Hyde visits that turns out to be a laboratory and connected to Jekyll home. A year passes when a servant girl see’s Hyde beating Sir Danvers Carew to death.
When the servant girl calls the police and the police calls Utterson, he suspects Hyde as the murderer. So they rush to Hyde’s apartment but he has vanished and Jekyll says he has stop all communication with Hyde. A few months passed and Jekyll started refusing visitor. Suddenly Lanyon dies but before he does, he gives Utterson a letter but tells him not to read it until Jekyll dies. A while later Jekyll butler Mr. Poole visits Utterson and tells him that Jekyll has locked himself into his laboratory for several weeks. So the both of them went to Jekyll house and broke into his laboratory. Once they were in the laboratory, they found Hyde dead in Jekyll clothes and a letter from Jekyll to Utterson promising to explain
everything. Toward the end of the book, Utterson start reading the two notes his friends left him. The first one given two him by Lanyon told him that seeing Hyde take some potion and metamorphosing into Jekyll shocked him so much that he died. Then the second one left to him by Jekyll started to explain that he tried to separate his good side from his bad side. Instead of doing that he found a way too periodically change into a monster named Mr. Hyde. At first he said he was happy to turn into Hyde but as it went on, he discovered that he could not control it. Then he said in the letter that he lost control that killed Sir Danvers Carew. After that he could not control the monster and decided to commit suicide. In conclusion the story was interesting as well as a big mystery. I enjoyed this book because it was a mystery and no one knew at first who was doing the killing. The part I didn’t like in the book occurred when Dr. Hyde was killing innocent people. I also did not like it because the book had a lot of pages and a lot of little words. Overall the book was good reading and yes maybe I would read another book by this author.