Sherlock Holmes Stories Essay

Although these shows are alike, there are many contrasts between the main characters. First of all, Shawn Spencer pretends to be psychic while Castle doesn’t claim to have any special abilities. Next, Castle is a popular mystery writer, who has written a series of novels following the adventures of Derrick Storm and Nikki Heat, characters based off of himself and his partner, respectively. Dissimilarly, Shawn has no other job besides detective work. Finally, Shawn is very childish, even when…

perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.” The words of Charles Baxter apply importantly to the world of mysteries and mysterious stories. Inside this essay, two vastly dissimilar mysteries will be observed and compared, Favorite Father Brown Stories, and A Morbid Taste for Bones. Within the realm of literature are numerous genres, one of which is mysteries, and many different types of mysteries fall underneath the field. Of the two stories mentioned, the first was a priest…

tell no tales, because their dead, right? Well the author of the articles “Dead Men Talking: Solving Crime Through Science” and “Giving Faces to the Lost” would disagree with the saying. Even though dead men can’t talk physically they can tell the story of their deaths through their bones. Of course they need a little help from forensic anthropologists. Forensic anthropologists are people that examine human remains to find the identity of unknown people and find out how they die. To do their…

received “Newberry Honor Book” award. It was published in 1987 and named “the bestselling classic survival story”. The genre of the book is coming-of-age adventure novel. Children aged 10 to 15 will enjoy reading it very much. In the beginning, the story takes place in the small airport in Hampton, New York, where the main character is from, and later in the Canadian woods by the lake. The story is about a teenager who was forced to control an airplane, and then survived in the woods alone after…

the writers have written only in a particular concept or genre, but Kurt Vonnegut has imprinted his undeniable mark in science fiction with humor, social commentary with absurdity and so on. Kurt Vonnegut has written fourteen novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. His works are occupied with unusual characters and the characters show pragmatism, especially in Slaughterhouse-Five. His works mingle satire with humor in a science fiction and his pen does…

This paper deals with the article ‘Oak Island’s Mysterious’ “Money Pit”, written by David MacDonald (A Reader's Digest Classic, originally published in 1965). This piece of literature is mysterious as it talks about the treasure which has been excavated by many people but not yet found. The argument will be developed through a critical review of David MacDonald’s article discussing in turn the fact whether the treasure in the Oak Island is natural or man-made, in other words does the treasure…

really admired Oliver Wendell Holmes, a very well known author. Twain read so many of Holmes' books that he began to plagarize without realizing that he stole those ideas from him. Twain shared his article with his friend to see what he thought of it, and his friend said that he had already read it. This was such a mystery to Twain as he had no idea what he was talking about. Once he had found that he had accidentally plagarized, he sent a letter to Oliver Wendell Holmes telling him what had…

I use two genres of text for my RIP project, which is plot related. It seems that my diary doesn’t have the audience, but my letter does have, but rhetor of both of the genres is the detective. One new concept to noir is that in the diary the detective doesn’t worry about other people would see his diary so that he could write anything in it, even talks bad about his client, Mrs. Chanler. However, in the letter, he uses polite, formal and official tone to tell his client what he was explored,…

flashbacks and foreshadowing. In the story, “The Nose” Gogol uses all of these elements to create the mystery of how a nose was found, was lost, and eventually returned. The reader is engaged throughout the story by the author’s use of these multiple literary components, creating mystery surrounding the story of who, what, when, where and why the nose was lost. At the story’s beginning, the author creates mystery with the use of foreshadowing. The first line of the story, “On the 25th March,…

A victim! A suspect! A detective! All are essential to intriguing mysteries. With G.K. Chesterton guiding Father Brown through several mysteries, whether it is in the home of a prince or in a haunted forest, with keen eyes and ears, Father Brown brings to light the unknown. As the Welsh village of Gwytherin struggle with the murder of a beloved friend and father, Brother Cadfael files through suspects and scares the true suspect to the point of confession. Everyone agrees that plot twists make…