Story Summary 3.7

The story I read this week is “The Hound of The Baskervilles,” and this story is mainly about a huge, monstrous, supernatural dog that has been killing the Baskerville family. The first Baskerville family member that died that got Sherlock Holmes involved in the case was Sir Charles. Next on the list to die was Sir Henry. Dr. Mortimer became worried and decided to fly in Sir Charles to keep him safe and also hire a consultant detective to help him figure out the situation, which was Sherlock Holmes. When Sherlock Holmes got involved in the case, he used his techniques of deduction to figure out the case. With Sir Henry safe and sound, Sherlock Holmes and his trusty assistant Dr. Watson find out that the Baskerville’s neighbor was the one behind everything!

                My Reaction to this ending was very, very, VERY surprised because the neighbor was always the nice one trying to help the Baskerville family. Throughout the whole story, I was thinking the butler might be up to something that is causing these mysterious deaths to happen. The person that ended up being behind everything was the Neighbor, he was the family’s friend for many years. At the end of the story it turns out the neighbor was a Baskerville himself, whose father was banished and he came to avenge his father’s banishment.

2.07 DBA Free Choice Blog

Camilo Restrepo   February 7

The section of the story I read, “The Bet,” was about how a lawyer was tempted into a bet with a rich banker that he could not last fifteen years imprisoned. The lawyer accepted the challenge and was kept in the banker’s garden. He was allowed to have a musical instrument and books, and was allowed to write letters, to drink wine, and to smoke. The lawyer was to be freed on November 14^th, 1885 at 12 o’clock. The first year was very hard for the lawyer, he suffered depression and loneliness. After the tenth year the lawyer sat motionless on the table and read nothing but the gospel. The last two years of his imprisonment the prisoner read a variety amount of books. One day before the full fifteen years have passed the banker knew that if the lawyer one this bet, he would go bankrupt and loose everything. The banker’s only way of not going bankrupt would be killing the lawyer. The prisoner gave a letter to the banker saying, he renounces the two million dollars and will leave five hours before the scheduled time of his release.

          My reaction to this story was shocking because after fifteen years of his life he still decides to leave five hours early and not take the two million dollars that got him into that mess.

          The style of notes I would use for this story would be list because there are many important events in this story that really get pointed out.

1.03 blog

According to the quiz, the kind of reader I am is a nonfiction reader because I like to read information based on reality. Also, when I read I like to have a clearly defined purpose for reading it. The second one was that I enjoyed comedy, because I like to laugh, and I like to read something that will make me happy. A silly or happy ending is my game. I believe that this quiz was not completely accurate because my first choice in reading would not be a nonfiction story. My first choice in a book genre would be a fiction story because I can go into my own world and visit places I would never be able to go. Also, the second part is accurate because a comedy story would be my second book genre choice.

The last book I enjoyed reading was entitled, "Things Not Seen" because it was a mystery story about how a boy, named Dave became invisible and he went around looking for how he can make himself visible again. I liked this book because it had mysterious sequences and it also kept leaving me guessing. Things Not Seen always had exciting scenes from trying to get away from the antagonist of the story to finding out the secret of turning invisible, and that’s why I found this my last book I enjoyed reading.