Novel

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Novel

• Means new
• First novel written
• by Daniel Dafoe
• Robinson Crusoe
• in 1719

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Elements of a Novel

• Setting The time, place and environment in which
  a story takes place
• Plot The series of events in a story that reveal
  the conflict, crisis and resolution
• Characters The people (or things) that take part
  in the story

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Elements of a Novel-cont

• Point of View The perspective from which the
  story is told
• Theme What the author is trying to tell us about
  the subject of the story
• Motifs Recurring idea or theme
• Red Herring Obvious solution in a mystery that
  attempts to throw us off the trail.

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The Hound of the BaskervillesVocabulary Words

• Erroneous, presume, circumspect, agape,
  catastrophe, calamity, corroborated, luminous,
  spectral, executor, apparition ?

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THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
BY SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE PRESENTATION BY WBA
Hound and Holmes Picture. Viewed 7 March 2005.
www.oldetimeradio.com. http//www.oldetimeradio.co
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Time Line ofSir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Photo. Viewed 7 March
2005. www.snu.org. http//www.snu.org.uk/I_histsnu
205BI5D.htm
Photo of A. C. D. Viewed 6 March 2005.
www.thefreelibrary.com. http//doyle.thefreelibrar
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

• OccupationEye specialist (Optometrist)
• Knighted for his service as British Officer in
  The Great Boer War
• First story A Study in Scarlet
• Sherlock Holmes modeled after Dr. J. Bell
• Wrote 60 Holmes stories
• Tried to kill off Holmes, but was forced by
  popular demand to resurrect him

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

• Influenced by Edgar Allan Poe (Murder in the Rue
  Morgue)
• Wife and son diedresulting in Doyle becoming a
  Spiritualist
• Doyle became friends with Harry Houdini, the
  great escape artist

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Setting
Throughout the book, the setting is in numerous
places, but the main location of action is in
Devonshire, where Baskerville Hall is placed.
This town is described as gloomy and dark at
night, but during the day, the area seems to
brighten a little bit.
The driver pointed with his whip. Baskerville
Hall, said he A few minutes later we had
reached the lodge-gates, a maze of fantastic
tracery in wrought iron, with weather-bitten
pillars on either side, blotched with lichens,
and surmounted by the boars heads of the
Baskervilles(p. 53-54).
The Hound of the Baskervilles Picture. Viewed 6
March 2005. www.swoversart.com.
http//www.swoyersart.com/charles_wysocki/hound_of
_the_baskervilles.htm
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Sherlock Holmes

• Sherlock Holmes is a very interesting character.
  He is witty and clever. The most important trait
  of the detective is that he figures out the most
  detailed facts about a mystery that no one would
  even think to bother about using his powers of
  deduction.
• Sherlock Holmes had, in a very remarkable
  degree, the power of detaching his mind at
  will(p. 39).

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Sherlock Holmes

• Robert Downey Jr.

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Dr. Watson

• As the narrator, Dr. Watson accompanies Sherlock
  Holmes throughout the course of the book. He is a
  bright man and tries to find the murderer who
  killed Sir Charles Baskerville. Sometimes Dr.
  Watson is afraid to speak his mind. Sherlock
  Holmes sometimes treats Watson like a fool.
• Im afraid, my dear Watson that most of your
  conclusions are erroneous.to be frank, that in
  noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided
  towards the truth. (pg.11)

Dr. Watson. Viewed 10 March 2005. www.pbs.org.
lthttp//www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/hound/whoswho
/images/watson.jpggt
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The Hound of the BaskervillesChapter 1-Mr.
Sherlock Holmes

• 221b Baker Street, London
• Watson examines a forgotten cane
• Elderly Doc from a hunting club
• Holmes sarcastically praises Watson and then
  deduces that
• Charing Cross Hospital
• Young Country Doctor
• Amiable man
• Owns medium size dog
• Unambitious and Forgetful

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The Hound of the BaskervillesChapter 1-Mr.
Sherlock Holmes

• Dr Mortimer arrives with Spaniel
• Holmes is correct in his analysis
• Mortimer is a phrenologist (examines skulls)
• Hopes to consult the 2nd highest expert in
  London-ouch!

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The Hound of the BaskervillesChapter 2-Curse of
the Baskervilles

• Dr Mortimer presents manuscript (1742)
• Infamous Hugo Baskerville kidnapped a maiden, she
  escaped from the tower by climbing down the ivy
  covered wall
• Hugo makes a deal w/the Devil
• Hell hound kills Hugo, one witness dies and two
  others go insane

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The Hound of the BaskervillesChapter 2-Curse of
the Baskervilles

• Sir Charles was a philanthropist
• Apparently died of natural causes (heart attack)
• Dr. Mortimer noticed cigar ashes and the
  footprints of a gigantic hound
• Wants advice on what to do with Sir Henry
  Baskerville

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The Hound of the BaskervillesChapter 3-The
Problem

• NOK Roger Baskerville-Presumed dead in
• S. America, Black
• sheep of family
• Holmes smokes pipe and consults a map of
  Devonshire
• Discusses Supernatural-vs-natural

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The Hound of the BaskervillesChapter 4-Sir Henry
Baskerville

• Anonymous notewarning or threat?
• Times newspaper clippings (moor)
• Used short blade scissors
• In a hurry (words carelessly glued)
• Hotel pen (sputtering ink)

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The Hound of the BaskervillesChapter 4-Sir Henry
Baskerville

• Henrys new brown boot is missing
• Holmes spots bearded man following Henry
• Cartwright inspects 23 Hotel garbage cans for
  newspaper clippings

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The Hound of the BaskervillesChapter 5-Three
Broken Threads

• Holmes checks hotel register
• Henry loses another boot (black)
• Barrymore has a black beard
• Holmes sends telegram to Barrymore
• Henry inherits 740,000 lbs

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The Hound of the BaskervillesChapter 5-Three
Broken Threads

• NOK James Desmond, a distant cousin, clergyman
• Holmes sends Watson with Henry to B-ville Hall
• Cabbie states that Sherlock Holmes was his
  mysterious passenger

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The Hound of the BaskervillesChapter
6-Baskerville Hall

• Watson has a list of suspects
• Warning to Baronet Do not go into the moors at
  night when the powers of evil are exalted.
• Selden, the Notting Hill murderer has escaped
• Moor and Manor are Melancholy
• Barrymores wish to resign
• Watson hears a woman crying at night

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The Hound of the BaskervillesChapter7-Stapletons
of Merripit House

• Barrymore lies about crying wife
• Telegram was delivered to MRS Barrymore
• Watson meets Stapleton (Naturalist /
  Entomologist)
• Stapleton suggests that Sir Charles could have
  been frightened to death by an ordinary hound

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The Hound of the BaskervillesChapter
7-Stapletons of Merripit House-cont

• Stapleton warns Watson of the Grimpen Mire
• Claims that he is the only one that can navigate
  past the quicksand
• They hear a low moan arising from the moor
• Beryl Stapleton warns Watson to Go back to
  London!

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The Hound of the BaskervillesChapter 8-First
report of Dr. Watson

• Letter format
• Selden not seen for a fortnight
• Mr. Frankland of Lafter Hall a litigator and
  amateur astronomer
• Henry questions Barrymore about telegram, gives
  him his wardrobe
• Watson sees Barrymore creeping down the hall with
  a candle

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The Hound of the BaskervillesChapter 9-2nd
report of Dr. Watson

• Miss Stapleton averts her head at Henrys attempt
  to kiss her
• Mr. Stapleton reacts like a madman
• Barrymore signaling into the moor
• Eliza Barrymore admits Selden is her brother
• Waston sees the Man on the Tor

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The Hound of the BaskervillesChapter 10Extract
from Diary

• Aiding and Abetting a felon
• Barrymore confesses Sir Charles was waiting for a
  woman, initials L.L
• Dr. Mortimer, minus spaniel, says L.L. might be
  Laura LyonsFrankland the Cranks estranged
  daughter
• Sir Charles has helped her set up a typing
  business

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The Hound of the BaskervillesChapter 11The Man
on the Tor

• L.L. is beautiful and freckled
• P.S.As you are a gentleman, burn this letter
• Needed money from Sir Charles to get a divorce
  from husband she abhorred
• Frankland has spotted Cartwright (the boy) with
  his telescope
• Watson hides in stone hut
• Holmes recognizes Watsons cigarette

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The Hound of the BaskervillesChapter 12Death on
the Moor

• Watson upset that Holmes used him and had not
  trusted him
• Miss Stapleton is really Jacks wife, not sister
• Stapleton used L.L. to draw out Sir Charles
• Sir Henry is killed by the HoundSelden is
  wearing Henrys tweed suit

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Greed

• In The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur
  Conan Doyle, the murderer of the book is
  portrayed through his greed and selfishness. His
  intentions, or goals, are to obtain the fortune
  of the late Sir Charles Baskerville. Achieving
  his goals and obtaining the fortune was due to
  the murderers desire for money and wealth.

Money Picture. Viewed 10 March 2005. www.msu.edu.
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.htm