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    After many people read novels‚ and then watch the film‚ you hear them leave the theater saying that movie was nothing like the book. That can be true‚ but a movie has to be judged while keeping in mind that it has both a budget and a time limit‚ which only allows most movies to focus on the crux of the story. However‚ where books attempt to give a depiction of their characters and capture their essence‚ a good director can encapsulate and portray the fundamental nature of the characters clearly

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    Their interests are given to them and their interactions with others limited. However Haddon had ingeniously used Boones love of Sherlock Holmes to form the crime novel. Boones idea of a crime novel is relying on the “accumulation of material facts.” This sort of crime fiction is the only sort that seems to make sense for Christopher. The title is a reference to a Sherlock Holmes short story called silver blaze. The dog in the night time is written in the mind-set of a 15 year old boy with Asperger’s

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    knowledge is power then Maycomb County in Alabama in To Kill Mockingbird. If you need a more modern or straightforward example though go watch a Sherlock Holmes movie right before he fights because he calculates out every portion of his fight before it happens. But I prefer the more realistic version of knowledge is power in To Kill A Mockingbird than Sherlock Holmes. Remember what everyone said knowledge is

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    Quiet Kill Sherlock then thought about his larger than life‚ dramatic‚ screwed-up best friend Teddy Timberland and his “Oh God isn’t strange” big personality. He was someone who‚ even with someone else‚ would be talking highly of no one but himself. Every point made was all about him and no one else. If he didn’t get his way‚ his attitude would become aggressive and moody‚ like he was suddenly a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and start throwing things around‚ cursing while doing so. Those were the

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    Innholdsfortegnelse Part A: Close reading and analysis 3 Sherlock meets Abigail 3 Works cited 6 Part B: Literary criticism 7 Literary criticism 7 Works cited 8 Part C: Form and genre 
 9 Crossing fictional borders 9 Works Cited 11 Part A: Close reading and analysis Sir Arthur Conan Doyle authored some of the earliest detective fiction‚ and we still recognize the formula he and Poe presented in the development of the genre. Use the background you have been given in the genre to consider

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    sister’s death‚ Sherlock didnt say a word which leads the reader to think of possible causes of death. This engages the reader and also introduces mis-information into the story. The reader would believe someone (ie: the gypsies) or something had caused the death of Helen’s sister. When Conan Doyle writes his stories‚ he gives them a quick change of atmosphere. A chapetr begins with a relaxed feeling which suddenly becomes tense and fast-paced. An example‚ is when Sherlock and Watson are waiting

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    shot eyes‚ thousands of wrinkles and a flesh nose‚ which gives him the impression of an old bird of prey. He wears; a hunting – crop‚ a black top hat‚ long frock – coat‚ high gaiters. This is stated when Watson recounts one of the many cases with Sherlock Holmes. He uses fraises like “a thousand wrinkles‚ burned yellow with the sun‚ and marked with every evil passion.” And “his high‚ thin‚ fleshless nose‚ gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old bird of prey.” This gives the audience a sense

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    seems to fascinate Holmes – and the mystery becomes more and more puzzling. Of course‚ Holmes eventually presents his solution of the crime – but only after uncovering the story of Douglas’s past life in America. I’ve read most of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories and novels – well‚ a lot of them anyway. But I had managed to neglect

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    of crime fiction. The detective’s techniques of crime investigation often differs from the average police detectives and observes and discovers clues everyone else overlooks. In the first short story “A Study In Scarlet” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‚ Sherlock Holmes is the detective who solves the crime through the art of deduction. R. Austin Freeman’s short story “The Case of Oscar Brodski” features Dr John Evelyn Thorndyke who discovers the man responsible for the death of Oscar Brodski. The eccentric

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    identified by Hume‚ and his growth from a life of evil to one of good. Arthur Conan Doyle‚ most notably known for writing the Sherlock Holmes novels was also heavily influenced by Gothic literature. Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories are at their core‚ stories of mystery based on events that seem supernatural in nature but are explained by Holmes’ immense intellect. Sherlock Holmes also contains the primary element of the hero-villain‚ a heroic character with villainous

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