not me, my many arrowed friend,
I wish I had a bouquet of Tiger Lillies to look at and smell.
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not me, my many arrowed friend,
I wish I had a bouquet of Tiger Lillies to look at and smell.
:| right now, I'm just finishing my book report on Mr. Jekyll and Dr. Hyde. I feel so tired... :|, do you guys find this good so far?
A mind-blowing book in which Robert Louis Stevenson acutely describes and explains the darkness and light(specifically darkness) in people's hearts using only his extraordinary words and good concept of split personality, this is what makes the story, Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, one of the best stories ever made. I stood aghast as I read this book, imagining, in my mind, the horrific (and oddly amusing) events that occured in the story. The story takes place in London in the 1800s, it is about a lawyer who has a friend that has been acting strange recently, and when the lawyer finds out that his friend, an amazing chemist, is giving everything he has to a cruel(and also peculiar) man who assaulted a little girl (along with commiting other crimes) in his will, the lawyer becomes horrified and tries to investigate the complete and entire situation. With the help of the chemist's (Jekyll's) servants, his friends Lanyon (old friend of the lawyer from school and college), Mr. Guest (a handwriting critic, and the lawyer's head clerk), Mr. Enfield (his distant kinsman) and Jekyll (and Hyde) himself (or themselves), he uncovers the scientist's secret and figures out the puzzling and surprising mystery. Mystery, it is what this book specializes in, it always keeps you in perplexity, yet the mood is also sometimes suspenseful and frightening.
One can see, or rather feel, the suspense (of the book) in effect as Mr. Hyde speaks with his petrifying voice, like when he did with Mr. Utterson(the lawyer) when he first met him beside the memorable door, and the way people describe Mr. Hyde, like Mr. Utterson did when he portrayed him as "Satan's signature"(which just makes you think of him as some sort of demonic inhuman creature), just simply adds to that fear. Perhaps one of the most frightening moments is when Mr. Hyde visits Lanyon and then sobs with joy when he sees the drawer, perhaps its just me(considering the fact I've had my own frightening nightmares), but when I imagined him sobbing in such a way, I could not help thinking of a demon sobbing (of course in a frightening shriek-like sob of joy), I was frozen in my own seat, proving how frightening (and powerful) the story can be. When Dr. Jekyll was looking out window, yelling to his friends, one of the most suspensful parts of the story was when he all of the sudden choked up, this was surprising, something I least expected and it put me in suspense. Most of the story is mystery though, from beginning to end you try to figure out what's the deal with Dr. Jekyll, why he acts so strange, why he is pale every once in a while and so this is overall the mood of the story. Throughout the story, there are many references of about what year and place, especially in the last two chapters where it says the year and place directly, "You will learn from Poole how I have had London ransacked"(Chapter 10) and "December 10 18--"(Chapter 9) or better yet, for the year, "Nearly a year later, in the month of October, 18--"(Chapter 4).
There are at least ten important events in the story: the conversation between Utterson and Enfield at the beginning of the story, the first confrontation between Utterson and Hyde, the murder case of Carew, the moment Jekyll gave Utterson a letter, the moment Utterson checks the handwriting of the signature of the letter, the moment Jekyll starts preventing anyone from entering his house, the moment when Jekyll is talking to his Utterson and Enfield from the window, the event where Utterson breaks in, Lanyon's Narrative, and Jekyll's full statement of the case.
That's what I've written so far
I am thinking that I should keep the books I bought as Xmas presents to give to the family for myself, however then I would need to fight my way through shops full of people again and I cant be bothered doing that....maybe I can get them presents at the gas station.
or or yoou can give them to family then "borrow" them all to read :nod:
yeah, hmm... does anybody else find it ironic that a literature forum has an advertisement banner that says "Don't Read"
where? where?
very top, a guy with a basketball.
nope dont see it
:)
ohhh booooooooooooooo Ill never find that film :mad:
I don't understand how people can work with documents and still lose them. I hate irresponsible people... :rage:
Hello, all. Night, I think your "Rubber Ducky" will either laugh himself to death or hang me when he sees his new obit! HAR! :lol: :lol: :lol:
*I wanna heal, I wanna feel, like I am close to something real.*
only 1 minute of freedom left :bawling:
Would it be considered strange if I got there an hour early?
why isn't my phone ringing!