The Adventure Of The Speckled Band

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

The reason why Dr Roylott murdered Julia was the intention that he would gain money which shows his greediness and the extent he would go to to get what he wants. Also, when he meets Holmes he treats him with hostility and bends a "steel poker" into a curve and throws

However, the author also uses the literary device of word choice to convey the respect the narrator has for the snake. Although the narrator gives reasoning for killing the snake, the development of the narrator with word choice verifies that the narrator is very reluctant to do so due to his respect for the snake’s life. For instance, when describing the first encounter with the snake, the narrator states, “My first instinct was to let him go his way… I have never killed an animal… the sport in taking life is satisfaction I can’t feel.” The use of the word “instinct” shows that the narrator naturally and automatically wishes to leave the snake alone instead of killing it. His respect for the snake is also shown when the narrator says,“I did not cut the rattles off for a trophy… I could see him as I might have let him go, sinuous and self-respecting in departure over the twilit sands.”

Roylott had trained the snake to travel through the ventilator and down the bell chord, onto the bed to kill the person sleeping inside it.

The author portrays the snake as calm and intuitive with an approving tone to get the acceptance of the reader. When the man finds the snake, it was waiting to see the man’s “intentions” in “calm watchfulness” . It did not even start “rattling yet”. The snake wanted to see what the man would do. It did not want to attack first without knowing whether the man was going to.

For the most part, the snake is minding its own business. It doesn’t attack the man until he strikes out at it with the hoe. Naturally the reader should be angry at the man for killing the snake over something that could’ve potentially happened but didn’t. It is a wide shared belief that all life, human and animal alike, is sacred. The reader can’t help but empathize with the man because they can understand why he did what he did. Although the man preferred to ignore the snake, he had his family to think about. Sometimes, even making the right choice can cause a moral

Many moons ago, a brave warrior, a band geek, and a loving friend, made his greatest endeavor to save our world from the enemy: orch-dorks. In a happy land of band geeks, came the storm of orch-dorks that sought to conquer them. Driven by a desire to eliminate all band geeks, they commenced their mission. The orch-dorks sent out their men to accomplish this terrible task. The sounds of their stringed instruments hypnotized the band geeks to follow their authority. Their mission proved to be successful, but one band geek prevailed over their efforts. Clara Net, the most heroic of them all, set out on a journey to bring back the band geeks from the evil reign of the orch-dorks. But there was only one way to defeat the orch-dorks, she needed to

In this essay, I am going to look at how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has

This story features a man named Timber who is driving in his car driving home to his bungalow. As he approaches the house he steps inside and realizes how one of the lights are on and just thinks to himself that Harry had forgotten to turn them off or even fell asleep before dawning upon it. As he approaches the room, he notices Harry wide awake with the sense of fear in his eyes. Harry calls upon Timber and tells him that a poisonous snake (called a Krait) had crawled on his stomach and underneath the sheet, while he was lying down in his bed. “”A krait! Oh, my God! Where'd it bite you? How long ago?”” (Dahl 1) The Krait represents the fear that Harry and Timber both feel. Timber knows that the snake is poisonous and could kill Harry at any time. Timber later calls the doctor and the doctor arrives shortly after the call. They decide that they need to get the snake off of Harry’s stomach but they don’t know if the snake will bite Harry before they can get it off of him. The doctor decides to give the antivenom to Harry just in case the snake was to bite when they were trying to get it off of him. They decide that they will try and soak the mattress with chloroform to try and make the snake easier for them to remove without harming Harry or themselves. The doctor and Timber finally decide to lift the sheets off of Harry and as they lift the sheets off to their discovery there was nothing near or on Harry at all. As they look around for the snake Timber and the doctor realize that it's not even there. “”'It's not there!' Ganderbai straightened up and for a moment he too looked at the mattress; then he looked up at Harry.”” (Dahl 4). The trait that was supposed to be there can represent the delusion that Harry was thinking there was a poisonous snake that was on his

The snake was trained to kill his step daughters, eliminating one and then his own ¨weapon¨ turned on himself. In The Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes is investigating a death upon which the owners weapon turned on himself. Sherlock didn't physically kill Roylott, but is consulted of doing which. Although Sherlock knew the snakes were trained to kill humans, he wasn't able to predict which human it decided on killing. Then, unpredictably, the deadly snake turned on Dr Roylott killing him within ten seconds.

Sherlock Holmes used his observance to come to the conclusion that occurred at the end of “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” transcribed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In April 1883, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson experienced an encounter with Helen Stoner; Helen requested that Sherlock and Watson look into the case of her sister’s death. Holmes and Watson were recommended by a mutual friend of Helen’s. Helen Stoner and Dr. Roylott lived in Stoke Moran. Dr. Roylott, Helen’s stepfather, was an aggressive man. After Helen Stoner’s mother had perished, Dr. Roylott was left with her will until each girl got married. When married each girl would get one third of the money. Helen’s sister, Julia, had

The Speckled Band by Sherlock Holmes Detective stories first became popular in the Victorian era following the emergence of organized police forces in the 1830's. Fascination with the criminal heros accompanied a corresponding interest in the methodical uncovering of crime. Public hangings were frequent and Victorian people feared crime greatly. This meant that when the detective stories came about they felt the fictional character that cracked every case became the perfect detective i.e. Arthur Conan Doyle's character, Sherlock Holmes. SherlockHolmes was actually an amateur detective not a member of the London plaice force and the Victorians had a deep resentment against the police, as they were

In the story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” written by Sir Author Conan Doyle a detective named Sherlock Holmes saved a young woman from an early demise. He solved a mysterious murder that occurred two year prior to the investigation as well. This death was never solved because there was no evidence of who or what caused her demise. Helen Stoner seeks assistance from Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes regarding her calamity. Helen Stoner fears for her life and is troubled about her twin sister’s death.

In the book Holmes and Watson say “... we heard scream after scream from Sir Henry and the deep roar of the hound.”(213). Stapleton had let his hound loose which scared Sir Henry and he ran and screamed in fear of the hound. While Watson and Holmes chased the hound they showed they weren’t ruled by fear and chased the hound then killed the hound the save Sir Henry. Holmes had fired lots of bullets at the hound before killing it to save Sir Henry. After that Sir Henry needed to get away from that place and he and Mrs. Stapleton had went to Canada to get away from that horror. Sir Henry was definitely scared for life from the hound and definitely would tell the tale because he was the one who could live to tell the

Kino was very upset and Kino also knew that the doctor just didn’t want to see them. But when Kino and Juana came back, the neighbors were around their bush hut to see what has happened to Coyotito since. Luckily, when Coyotito was stung, Juana sucked out most of the poison. But, Coyotito was still very swollen on the shoulder and they still didn’t know if he was going to be alright.