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Inspecting A Scandal In Bohemia

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Inspecting “A Scandal in Bohemia” Over that past weeks we as a class have read and briefly analyzed multiple short stories, and literary concepts. Of these stories my personal favorite was “A Scandal in Bohemia” by Arthur Conan Doyle. In this mystery-filled story, the reader slowly finds out important events along with the narrator, Dr. Watson. The reader’s perspective, or point of view, is all based on what Dr. Watson tells the reader. The point of view can affect a story based on what form it is in, how reliable it is, and what tone the narrator uses. Point of view has everything to do with who the narrator is. “A Scandal in Bohemia” is in first person, with Dr. Watson as the narrator. In the story, as Watson pays his old friend Sherlock

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