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    to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.” (Arthur,1) The quote shown is by Sherlock Holmes. Specifically, The Hound of the Baskervilles, was influenced by Conan Doyle 's family and his real life experience. This essay relates the essence of Sherlock Holmes and the events shaped the narration and characters. In the tale about the Baskervilles’ hound, , Sherlock Holmes is the hero and main character. Holmes’ personality shows that he is an observant and intelligent…

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    bloodthirsty mutt. You are scared to death thinking it is hot on your trails. You take many precautions to protect yourself, just to learn that there was no dog in the first place.... What is really going on? The answer is explained in The Hound of the Baskervilles, which is the third Sherlock Holmes novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Published in 1902, this story continues the adventures of the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr. John Watson in an old version of…

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    movie, The Hound of the Baskervilles, directed by David Attwood included renditions that made the feature more dramatic than the novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Both depictions are very similar, but are different in multiple ways. These differences, in my perspective, make the movie more dramatic and action filled. These traits make the movie more enjoyable to me. Attwood includes many developments that make the movie more thrilling than the novel. In my opinion, the novel Hound of…

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    gets harder. One example is, it is a phenomenal book. It has deceitful characters, a superstitious conflict, and a hooking theme. Behind all the fancy word, and confusing metaphors the theme I revealed. Readers can confidently say that The Hound Of The Baskervilles focuses on lies, and decide, as a large part of the book, but the theme is how the lies are put out. One example is in chapter nine when Mr.Stapleton is caught being in a relationship with his sister. Though thought to be wrong, all…

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    Throughout the book, The Hound of Baskervilles, there is a character that even though it is not alive its role is as great as that of any other character. This character is none other than the moor. The moor plays an enormous role in the story on both sides of good and evil but in the end the moor comes out in the favor of good, but thats for later. First off by definition a moor is “a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where…

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    Relationship between lifestyle and literature. A strange fact of two crime novels The Hound of the Baskerville and Eeny Meeny have several similarities in basics of storylines and background of the novels; however, the details of the novels contain only few similarities. Arthur Conan Doyle and M.J. Arlidge, the authors of the two novels, were born and raised in same area London in United Kingdom; both use the background of novels as England. Since both books have same genre crime, the basic and…

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    Sherlock Book vs. TV Series The Hound of the Baskervilles written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the BBC version The Hounds of Baskerville are two works of art that are mainly telling the same story. There are, however, many differences about the book and the movie. Those differences don’t affect the outcome of the story, but they give less impact to the story. Along with the differences there are many similarities, and those similarities provide confidence that it is the same story. In both the…

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    1. author, title, year and topic "The Hound of the Baskerville" was first published in 1901 in England. The novel is a detective story, with the main protagonists Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. It was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was a famous writer in the 20th Century. Doyle is commonly known for the characters he created. The names Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are known all around the world. At one point in his carrier Doyle was weary of his own character. He then wrote the…

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    “The Hound of the Baskervilles” written as a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, then later reimagined as a film directed by Paul McGuigan, both share many similarities and differences that have been transformed to match the setting for the 21st century. With similarities being the same characters used, same locations and the same quotations used, with also the differences being from situations and characters that have been transformed or new situations added to be matched for the modern day audience,…

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    In the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, author Mark Haddon tells the tale of a young Christopher Boone, and his journey to uncover the mystery of who killed his neighbor’s dog, Wellington. Christopher narrates this story in a unique way, giving readers a glimpse into the mind of a fifteen year-old boy who has Asperger’s Syndrome, a type of autistic disorder. Christopher uses unconventional quirks, such as his excellence in mathematics, his keen photographic memory, and…

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