All great novels must have a character who can narrate the story in the most intriguing way. Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time‚ is narrated by Christopher John Francis Boone. Throughout the novel‚ Christopher educates the reader about autism‚ explains why he exhibits unusual behaviours‚ and allows the reader to understand his relationships he has with certain characters. Not only is it a good decision for Christopher to be the narrator‚ he is the best possible
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"The Garden of Forking Paths" as a Detective Story. In comparing Jorge Luis Borges’ "The Garden of Forking Paths" to that of the modern day detective story‚ I will discuss Borges’ use of characters‚ theme‚ and also his unique use of narration. The combination of these three things puts Borges’ "The Garden of Forking Paths" into a totally different class than the detective stories we have grown up reading and the ones we still read today. The genre of detective stories was invented by an American
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3. The ending of “The Speckled Band” is particularly effective because of 2 main reasons. The end of the story becomes more intense‚ suspenseful and anticipating. This makes readers want to read more‚ like a cliffhanger. The story builds up to this point‚ then there is the investigation and action. It is also suggested in the story near the end that something exciting may happen Holmes character becomes more mysterious. He brings a cane but he can walk so what for? He also asks Watson to have his
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In reading The Hound of the Baskervilles and watching the movie‚ I noticed many similarities and differences between the two. Writing this compare and contrast essay made me understand the story far more than I did with just reading the book. Here are some differences and some similarities I found while reading and watching The Hound of the Baskervilles. Many people probably noticed differences in the character’s behavior between the movie and book but I found many more similarities. In both‚
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The Beekeeper’s Apprentice is a mystery novel written by Laurie R. King about Mary Russell‚ an orphaned fifteen-year-old who lives with her aunt in Sussex Downs. One day in April 1915‚ with her nose in a book‚ Russell almost walked on Sherlock Holmes‚ fifty-four and retired from his job in London‚ instead caring for his beehives and elaborate science projects. They quickly bond‚ and Russell assumes the position of Sherlock’s student‚ and Sherlock the teacher. Mary Russell had a steadfast opinion
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As of yesterday‚ May 2nd‚ 1898‚ Sherlock Holmes stepped into City Hall to answer a few questions about his most recent case. He revealed that after the death of Sir Charles‚ another murder attempt took place‚ directed toward Sir Henry Baskerville‚ the supposed only heir of Sir Charles. “Things took an unexpected turn when the killer mistakenly killed the notorious Selden rather than Sir Henry‚” stated Holmes. After several interviews and problem solving‚ Holmes managed to convict the killer who
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The Adventure of the Speckled Bland Essay In this episode of Sherlock Holmes‚ Julia Stoner has died a mysterious death. Helen Stoner‚ her twin sister‚ comes to Sherlock asking for his help. Helen explains that all of the things that happened to Julia before she died are now happening to her. Sherlock has to find out what killed Julia‚ how it killed her‚ why the murder took place‚ and whether or not Helen is the next victim. As Sherlock interrogates Helen‚ he finds many mysterious things about
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In writing the Crime novel ‘The Client’‚ John Grisham has quite effectively intertwined the plot‚ characters‚ themes and issues to create a dramatic and suspenseful story. To do this he creates strong interesting characters along with an in depth storyline to lure the reader in. John Grisham raises important themes and issues in all his novels‚ this story raises such issues as suicide and corruption. In ‘The Client’ we are faced with rather rough but also innocent young
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Spider in a Candy Store Patterson is a man of strategy. Every word that goes into his pieces is carefully handpicked for a purpose. He spends extensive time developing the criminals in particular. His method in doing so works very well in his novels…. Patterson’s portrayal of criminals is effective because he allows their identity to remain unknown‚ his use of metaphors gives them animal-like characteristics‚ and the reader is able to enter deep into the villain’s mind. Humans crave a mystery
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The David Mapstone series are a series of crime mystery thrillers by bestselling American mystery writer Jon Talton. The first novel in the David Mapstone series of novels was Concrete Desert Talton’s debut novel that was first published in 2001. After the major success of the first novel in the series‚ the author went on to publish several more titles in the series that were just as successful as the first. Given Jon’s background working as an ambulance medic in Phoenix‚ Arizona and as a journalist
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