book report.
March 22, 2010
1.
The Tone of the book is DRAMA. The book is about how Sherlock Holmes helps Mary Morstan. She starts recieving this weird pearls anually. She does not know who sends them or why. After a while the person who sends this pearls wants a meeting with her. She gets scared and goes to Sherlock Holmes, He escolts her to the meeting and finds out that this guy is the son of Major sholto, which is a very close of the missing father of Mary Morstan. Later they find out that the father of Mary Morstan and Major sholto had this great treasure. By some reason the father of Mary Morstan dissapears and Major sholto is forced to hide it. Years later when Major sholto is about to die he plans to give the location of the treasure to his twins sons. Unfortunatly he dies before doing that. After some years one of his sons founds the treasure.
-Suspence – I think there is a lot of suspence in this story. First of all by the simple fact that Mary Morstan was recieving weird pearls. Not knowing by who oir why. Not knowing this was very good, at least for me. It kept the drama alive. As i was reading this i was wondering who was this guy. What did he want. why did he send pearls. All this questions crossed my mind while i was reading.
-Excitement- I think there was excitement in this story. I like when there are crimes to solve or hidden treasures. This makes me read the story more passionatly. Personally i felt the excitement knowing there was a treasure hidden. Later the brother of Thaddeus Sholto finds the treasure. As i always say there us no suspence with out excitement. As there is no stars without a sky.
2.
The book has many themes but the most important one for me is self confidence. The ability to trust in your self no matter what other people say. Sherlock Holmes has this great quality. He does not change in what he beliefs unless facts prove him wrong.
The story has not much to say about this particualr theme. Actually this is just a quality of Sherlock Holmes personality which is reflected in the whole story.
I think that the book is observing. I do not think that the author has much to comment about it. This is a non real story so, it is a lot harder to comment on something you have not lived than something that you did lived. The author has not lived this so that is why i think the book is more interested in observing it rather than comment on it.
I think that the book is very parcial. Meaning that it does not favor any side. The book itself does not has more that one side so the author can only observe. I really like this because there are some authors that like to favor some sides. which makes you belief in what the writer beliefs. I think that every story based on drama should be like this. Neutrality is very important for the reader, it gives them the freedom to choose a side and it does not force them to choose one.
Over all i liked the story. I think is is a good way to start reading different types of things. Before i would only read TOM CLANCYS books but this types of book make me realize that there are different types of DRAMA and that i need to explore this different types to become a good reader of DRAMA books.
