With Reference to Collins A Terribly Strange Bed and Conan Doyle's Speckled Band, Discuss How Both Authors Create Mystery and Tension. Although these short stories are fictional and were written in the mid 19th Century they are crime dramas containing stereotypical images of the villains of the time. These include social outcasts such as Dr Roylott and Monsieur Faulkner. Many writers use suspense in their stories in order to excite the reader more and to make them want to turn over to the next page. This is can be done by giving the reader some information, but not enough for him or he to be able to answer the mystery or riddle that they may be trying to solve. 'The Speckled Band' focuses on the Roylott family, of Stoke Moran in Surrey. The family includes twin sisters Julia and Helen Stoner, and their stepfather Dr Grimesby Roylott. The readers' first impression of Helen Stoner is that she is grieving over someone's death, due to her appearance. She is "dressed in black and heavily veiled". The reader is encouraged to feel sympathy for Helen Stoner and anxious to find out who has died and how, as she is clearly in mourning. The simile used to portray her fear and suggests she is weak and vulnerable, maybe even the next victim. "Restless frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal", indicates to the reader how she is being "hunted" like some kind of prey. This assists in building the suspense, as the reader is unaware of the details of the death, it is still a mystery. Conan Doyle's use of nouns, when Helen is speaking, suggests how scared she is. "It is fear, Mr Holmes. It is terror", illustrates that either Helen Stoner is exaggerating the situation, or something terrible has happened to c... ... middle of paper ... ...hen the story would be a complete failure because we would know he survives, yes there would be an adventure but it wouldn't grab the audiences attention and they wouldn't feel involved in the story. Therefore I think both authors go about creating mystery and ttension the best possible way because if they swapped round and Holmes was telling the story then the audience wouldn't want to get involved and the same with "a terribly Strange bed" Both authors create suspense in their own way that in my opinion are as effective as each other but I felt more eager to turn over the page in "The Speckled Band" Also the description of the setting is successful in creating the most suspense, as the use of darkness suggests something is going to happen. We don't find out a lot about the setting in "A Terribly Strange Bed" but it his little relevance to the story.
Finding out Anna’s cause of death means investigating suspects. Some of the suspects that were interrogated were Lucy Leffingwell who was Anna’s best friend and business partner, Erica Piedmont the new wife of Alex Garcia who was found fighting with Anna at a local diner and was later spotted in Anna’s driveway. The last suspect is Alex Garcia, he is a major part of the investigation because the fingerprints that were
When you first open your eyes, take your first steps, or when you say your first words, these first encounters with the world were most likely observed or you were helped by another person. In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelly the creature learns a lot about the world from the cottagers. The creature spends his first few months learning by himself but once he found the cottagers, he learned more than the basics of the world. The creature has conflicted feeling towards the cottagers because he thought of them as his “protectors” the one who taught him the ways of the world, but is afraid to show himself to them because he is afraid that they will not accept him due to the way he looked.
The funeral was supposed to be a family affair. She had not wanted to invite so many people, most of them strangers to her, to be there at the moment she said goodbye. Yet, she was not the only person who had a right to his last moments above the earth, it seemed. Everyone, from the family who knew nothing of the anguish he had suffered in his last years, to the colleagues who saw him every day but hadn’t actually seen him, to the long-lost friends and passing acquaintances who were surprised to find that he was married, let alone dead, wanted to have a last chance to gaze upon him in his open coffin and say goodbye.
On November 15, 2017, Horace Verbermockle was on the floor of his bathroom unconscious. His wife Minnie told the doctor, “My husband had a fall and he’s lying unconscious on the bathroom floor. I think he must have been taking a shower and slipped on a cake of soap. I did not move him. I threw a blanket over him and called you immediately. When the doctor arrived he check his body and said he died to a hit to the back of his skull. After the doctor examined the body he noticed the scene of the so called accident and called an investigator. After the investigator looked of the scene he can conclude that Minnie Verbermockle was the reason for his death.
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After learning of a possible kidnapping, patrolwoman Amelia Sachs gets a dispatch about a homicide near "Thirty Seventh near Eleventh". She finds a dead body dug roughly in a grave. To protect the scene, she does all humanly possible to prevent any type of contamination.
This conversation shows the way the Mrs. Wright held herself before anyone knew that her husband was no longer alive. One can begin to think with the way that Mrs. Wright was acting that she could be very fidgety and nervous. But then on can begin to think, why is she nervous? Is she the one that killed him, or was...
The essay How to Know if You’re Dead was written by Mary Roach, who described her
In the film, The Family Stone, many palliative concepts were addressed within the character’s interactions. The film is about a family’s Christmas gathering, where the entire family reunites and brings along their significant others. As the family arrives, they discuss their son/brother’s girlfriend, Meredith. As the family proceeds with their Christmas celebration, each family member has their own suspicion regarding their mother’s state of health. As the film unravels, the audience discovers that the matriarch of the family, Sybil, has fallen sick again. It is initially discussed between one son and his father. The son inquires about his mother’s health and asks how bad it is this time, implying that she has been sick before. His father reveals that it is worse this time. However, she had hoped to
Throughout the story the mood changes from initially being anxious, when Helen arrives, to being petrified which occurs when Helen’s concerns are indeed verified, to finally happy when the main conflict is resolved through the death of Dr. Roylott. When Helen Stoner arrives in April, 1883, she informs Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson of her fear that she would meet an ending similar to that of her sister. Through the explanation of the suspicious events of Julia’s, Helen Stoner’s sister, death, Sherlock was able to concur that this was indeed a serious matter. Holmes grew suspicious of Dr. Roylott based upon the description provided by Helen. Dr. Roylott’s aggressive nature and past were exceptionally suspicious. Additionally, the bruises upon Helen’s wrist was one example of the abusive relationship that Dr.Roylott and Helen had. This is an example of a character versus character conflict that is both internal and external. The man versus man conflict between Dr.Roylott and Sherlock Holmes made Dr.Roylott an even greater suspect. Dr. Watson, an intelligent doctor, and Sherlock Holmes agreed that they should begin their investigation that
Stoner thinks she died from being scared. Helen Stoner’s stepfather tells Julia that her room is in need of repair; therefore she now has to move into her dead sister’s room. One night when she was sleeping in Julia’s room, she heard the whistles Julia was hearing before her death. Sherlock Holmes, with help from Watson, decide to take up Mrs. Stoner’s case. They decide to go to Roylott’s home to investigate the scene where Roylott threatens Holmes and admits he followed Helen to his home. At Helen’s home, Sherlock examines the bedrooms of Mrs. Stoner and Roylott. He notices that there are bars on the windows of Julia’s room and realizes his theory of the gypsies is wrong because they had no way of getting in. Holmes finds a bell-pull next to the bed that is attached to the ventilator. Holmes goes into Roylott’s room and notices he has a safe where there is a saucer of milk on top. Next to the safe is a chair along with a dog whip and Holmes seems to have figured out the case. Inside the safe is a snake that Roylott has trained to go through the vent into Julia’s room. The whistle sound Julia heard was Roylott blowing the whistle to have the snake return back to him with no one
a chance to play the role of the detective to try and solve the crime,
A Room With a View is a novel written by E.M. Forster in 1908. In the novel, the protagonist, Lucy, must choose between her limited but safe Victorian lifestyle and the opportunity of an exciting but scary Edwardian future. This choice is reflected in the attitudes of the two men she considers marrying, Victorian Cecil Vyse or the Edwardian George Emerson. The characters in A Room With a View have extremely contrasting attitudes and behaviors because some are Victorian and others are Edwardian.
She said that he had had a stroke the night before. He died in the