Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure Of The Speckled Band

The story continues with an event that is unfortunately far more terrible and unexpected than the previous events. The narrator allows his increasing anger towards the second black cat to lead him to killing his wife. His temper and hatred that began with the second black cat eventually ended up impacted him and his wife. The narrator states, “I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. She fell dead upon the spot, without a groan” (Poe 5).

This also meant that the murder was premeditated. Dr. Roylott had trained the snake to come back to him at the sound of the whistle, so then it would get the reward of

In an instant I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him. ”The person I with excitement threw the old man down and killed him with relief.(95) " The Tale-Tell Heart. "My.hrw.com. Edgar Allan Poe, n.d. Web.

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Nag is a very mean snake in the story “Rikki-tikki-tavi” by Rudyard Kipling. Nag, who wants to rule his own very garden, and he is willing to kill anything that stands in his way. Nag teams up with his friend Nagaina to kill his enemy Rikki-tikki-tavi, but will he succeed? Nag proves himself to be very dangerous, bloodthirsty, and cruel snake. First, Nag makes “a horrid sound” (18) sending Rikki-tikki soaring backwards through the air two feet.

After breakfast, Emily Brent feels extremely giddy, and is left alone in the living room. When the party comes to find her, she is laying dead on the couch, having been injected with poison. The party also notices a bee flying near the

In the end, the evil snake is the thing that ends up killing Sykes, much to the shock of the readers. My interpretation was that the snake was used as a symbol of the evilness of Sykes and how in the end, it came back to literally bite him, which resulted in his demise. In conclusion, Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston what I consider to be the greatest work of short fiction I’ve read so far. I praise it for bringing up issues that black women specifically had to bear in that time period, such as working day and day out to survive and serve upper-class white folks in society.

Roylott was bitten by the swamp adder causing his death, Sherlock Holmes cannot be held responsible. Sherlock Holmes was forced to protect himself and Helen Stoner, causing him to agitate the snake in the process, sending it back to Dr. Roylott’s room. Secondly, Dr. Roylott has threatened Sherlock Holmes in his home, causing no guilt from Holmes at his death. Finally, Dr. Roylott was intentionally killing Helen and Julia, in order to keep his monthly income of $750. When Sherlock Holmes agitated the snake causing it to bite Dr. Roylott, Sherlock indirectly caused his death; but, Sherlock Holmes cannot be held responsible due to Dr. Roylott being the killer of Julia, and the attempted killer of

He sat up and grabbed the snakes by their throats. Amphitryon rushed to nursery to find hercules holding to dead snakes. This scene was also depicted in the movie when Hercules’ parents found him on the ground.

Everybody loves a good scare, some people like it in person, others in books and movies. Masque of the Red Death by, Edgar Allen Poe, it uses many gothic elements to give you a very creepy vibe. In this short story an entire country has been hit with a plague that gives you a slow painful death. A rich prince gathers all of his friends into his big castle to hide for the plague but later during a masquerade ball the red death finds its way into the castle and kills everyone. By using many gothic elements, including a gloomy decaying setting, a supernatural being, a character in distress or an intense emotion, you can write a good gothic story.

The main character of this book, Christopher, looks up to him because he is a detective and throughout the whole book Christopher tries to solve a mystery. He will often look up to Sherlock Holmes for inspiration to help him solve the mystery of who killed the dog. Another allusion found in this book is when Christopher mentioned the book, "The HOund of the BAskervilles. " In the beginning of the book, Christopher writes, "She said it was usually the people who were killed in murder mystery novels. I said that two dogs were killed in The Hound of

Killing Mr. Griffin is a suspense novel written by Lois Duncan. Mr. Griffin is considered the harshest teacher of Del Norte High School. Mr. Griffin is unbelievably bitter and even the top of his class, Susan McConnell, is only receiving a measly B. After Mark Kinney’s incident, him and his fellow cohorts of the class, David Ruggles, Jeff Garrett, Betsy Cline, and Susan McConnell, decide to devise a plan to kidnap Mr. Griffin to he can get a taste of his medicine. Unfortunately, like most plans, it backfired in the biggest way possible. The team has accidentally killed Mr. Griffin and must now figure out how they can get away with this catastrophe.

In the story, The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes had believed that doctors make the greatest criminals. Holmes himself said "when a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge." Dr. Roylott had certainly gotten away with the murder of his stepdaughter Julia, and if it weren't for Helen Stoner being afraid for her life, Dr. Roylott would've probably gotten away with her murder as well. However, Helen called Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to help solve her sisters murder, and not only did they solve her murder, but in an ironic twist, Dr. Roylott was also murdered by his own weapon.

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