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Attentive, aware, and intelligent are three adjectives to describe the main character and protagonist, Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Cardboard Box. Sherlock Holmes is a mastermind at solving mysteries with the help of his friend, Watson and the clues he sees and witnesses around him. He is very attentive to crime scenes, peoples' gestures, anyone's facial expressions and body language. He has an awareness of what is right and wrong, staged and unstaged, planned and unplanned, and the truth and a lie. In addition, he is intelligent because he can solve murder mysteries using deductive reasoning and back up his findings with facts and is always reading and researching to find answers with evidenciary support. Any character

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