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A study in scarlet (Sherlock Holmes)
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Sorry I haven't been as active as before, but as I already had this book I thought I'll give it a go as part of the night-time reading, although the book I have is a Reader's Digest and has The Hounds of Baskerville too, which I think is one of the last novels!
No prob, the more the merrier. I guess you’ll have to read the whole series before you get to that last one then! :)
I love Sherlock Holmes, it was a wonderful read!
Here are your questions for August! :D hope you like them. Please tell me if you liked the Role Play question even though it's kinda not role play.... more like a scenario....???
1. What was your favorite part of the book? (Could be whatever you understand that question as)
2. Do you deduce things about other people? Or at least try to? If so, are your deductions accurate?
3. In what ways do John and Sherlock’s personality complement each other and allow them to get along well?
4. Role play: You’re on a trip to London and you’re strolling around a city park when you see caution tape sectioning off a part of the park. You overhear it’s a crime scene of some sorts. Standing along the perimeter are two men discussing something intently. They walk away but you notice they dropped a pocket watch. You immediately retrieve the watch and flag them down to give it to them. The watch pops open and to your surprise inside is a picture of your late {insert dead relative} You mention this to them. They introduce themselves as John Watson and Sherlock Holmes. They tell you that the watch was in the coat pocket of the murderer who got away. Apparently, Mr. Holmes thinks you could be useful in solving the case and asks if you could help in with a particularly dangerous endeavor. Do you help him with it even if it means risking your life?
5. Do you agree with Sherlock when he makes this point? Why or why not? {read quote bellow}
‘You see,’ he explained, ‘I consider that a man’s brain is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge, you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.’
‘But the Solar System!’ I protested.
‘What the deuce is it to me?’ he interrupted impatiently: ‘you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”
Rose (AKA the crazy weird redhead) wrote: "No prob, the more the merrier. I guess you’ll have to read the whole series before you get to that last one then! :)"
I eventually changed the type of book I had, because it just seemed weird why they would mesh together the first and the last book, and I felt cheated that I couldn't say I finished the book until I read the Hound of the Baskervilles! Anyway, finished it now...!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_...Here is the real Sherlock Holmes, by the way. He was the real deductions-expert that inspired Arthur Conan Doyle, as they both came from Edinburgh. :)
Oh wow thank you! That's so interesting, I didn't know Holmes was based off of a real person.
1. What was your favorite part of the book? (Could be whatever you understand that question as)My favorite part of the study in scarlet was whenever Sherlock acts all superior in other people's company, it's amazing.
2. Do you deduce things about other people? Or at least try to? If so, are your deductions accurate?
Well whenever I’m driving in the back seat of the car on the highway I always look at the people (I know it's creepy.. but it's fun) in the other cars. I try to at first glance try to guess what their name is. Hopefully that's the right answer XD
3. In what ways do John and Sherlock’s personality complement each other and allow them to get along well?
Well, both Sherlock and John were accustomed to danger ect...
4. Role play: You’re on a trip to London and you’re strolling around a city park when you see caution tape sectioning off a part of the park. You overhear it’s a crime scene of some sorts. Standing along the perimeter are two men discussing something intently. They walk away but you notice they dropped a pocket watch. You immediately retrieve the watch and flag them down to give it to them. The watch pops open and to your surprise inside is a picture of your late {insert dead relative} You mention this to them. They introduce themselves as John Watson and Sherlock Holmes. They tell you that the watch was in the coat pocket of the murderer who got away. Apparently, Mr. Holmes thinks you could be useful in solving the case and asks if you could help in a particularly dangerous endeavor. Do you help him with it even if it means risking your life?
I believe so, it would be safer to do so than not and risking you AND your family without him to danger
5. Do you agree with Sherlock when he makes this point? Why or why not? {read quote bellow}
‘You see,’ he explained, ‘I consider that a man’s brain is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing
his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depending upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge, you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.’
‘But the Solar System!’ I protested.
‘What the deuce is it to me?’ he interrupted impatiently: ‘you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a penny worth of difference to me or to my work.”
My brain is not at all like Sherlock’s, I can say, it would be helpful in your work that you could do what Sherlock said but I don’t think I can agree. There are things connected to my life that I value above this subject and that are not related to work such as the love of my God, my family, and my friends.
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