Mad Detective

In Frank Beddor´s The Looking Glass Wars, the author puts a twist on the story of Alice in Wonderland. Beddor writes the tale from the perspective of Alyss, the princess of Wonderland who had to escape her queendom when her evil aunt Redd attacks the palace. She ends up alone in the middle of England taken in by the Liddles until she returns to Wonderland with Dodge Anders to reclaim the throne. When these changes were made to the story, real significance was provided with meaningful themes…

In the novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll is attempting to show Alice maturing from a child to a young adult. Before Alice’s tumble down the Rabbit hole and trip to Wonderland, she had gone through a phase in which she believed that everything could be explained and all questions had a reasonable answer. In the real world this was the case, but not in Wonderland. This leads to the inevitable outcome of her confusion between the real world and the “imaginary” world of…

While reading Frankenstein I was shaken to the core. Now that sounds like an over exaggeration, but I was reading much more of the story than what is presented. I read between the lines and then dug up dirt. I read at the root of the story and in doing so I was moved to tears. Frankenstein is about character building. Victor Frankenstein starts out as a student with a hunger and thirst for knowledge. Somewhere along the line he loses his way and becomes obsessed with his quest for discovery. I…

The Mad Hatter appears in the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and he first appears in the book in the tea party with March Hare. The tea party is always held at 6:00 pm, always being stuck at the tea party and time not changing. This happened because one day they tried singing the Queen of Hearts and she sentences them to death for “murdering the time”, but they escaped the sentence. The Mad Hatter is also known for being mad and he only became mad because he do to exposure to mercury was…

Detective Traits First off, my detective will be a boy around the age in the teen years. He will be in high school and he will have a friend that helps him solve the crime and it will be his closest friend. The main protagonist name is Nicolas, his sidekick's name is Henry. Nicolas will have tan skin, will have straight plus waivy hair,he will be tall, skinny, and a foot size of 10 for shoes. His partner on the other hand is mediocre tall, has orange wavy hair, skinny, freckles, and is a foot…

Set in the late 1800’s during industrial Victorian London The Limehouse Golem combines the classic idea of a detective murder mystery with a ‘rags to riches’ coming of age story with a deadly ending. Based off of the novel Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem by Peter Ackroyd (1994) the audience follows rising Inspector John Kildare in his search for the serial murderer dubbed the Limehouse Golem and his interactions with former music hall star Elizabeth Cree as she awaits prosecution for the death…

where the lead detectives must procure a lost or stolen item. Although both authors use almost congruent plots, characters and situations to expose readers to great tales of ratiocination, the contrast in the characters’ behavior, the fluctuation in plots and the slight difference in situations lead to Doyle’s A Scandal in Bohemia to be a more thought provoking and cultural questioning tale. In both Poe’s and Doyle’s works the lead detectives share similar personalities. Both detectives,…

several types of mystery genres, two specific examples are cozies and detectives. Cozies tend to be stories that have more detail and make readers feel invited, they detectives contain a softer tone. In contrast, detective has a more informative tone. Although these two genres are vastly different, they also contain several similarities. Specifically, “The Blue Geranium”, a cozies story and “A Scandal in Bohemia”, a detective story, have several differences. Most people wouldn't think these two…

The great-great-grandson of an influential magistrate in the Salem witch trials, Nathaniel Hawthorne was a prominent writer in the nineteenth century who experimented with his own unique writing style to write dozens of short stories for the American audience. “Young Goodman Brown” is one of his most famous stories, in part because of its context; the Salem witch trials are a big part of American history as it was a turning point in the perspective of the Puritan faith. The story is enhanced…

The title of this book is ‘Hatchet’, written by Gary Paulsen, and this book has 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…