Book Report; 1st story "The man with the twisted lip"

THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP

The story was The Man with the Twisted Lip written by Sir Arthur and adapted by Philip Nokes, this story is about a big truth in the life; sometimes a man can earn more money by making people feeling compassion, happiness or joy than developing a profession like accountant, doctor or teacher.

The story takes place in London were one day Mrs. Whitney ask Dr. Watson for help, because her husband had been in an opium house for 2 days, Dr. Watson looked for him but he found him and someone more; Sherlock Holmes. Holmes told Watson the reason about his visit to the opium house; he was trying to solve a case about the disappearance of Mr. Neville Sinclair. Holmes had only a pair of clues; the clothes of Mr. Sinclair full with coins outside the opium house, the testimony of Mrs. Sinclair in which she said she had saw his husband in a window of the opium house, and a beggar who was arrested in the opium house after Mrs. Sinclair called the police.

With this clues Holmes solve the case; he deduced that the Beggar in the jail was Mr. Sinclair, and he told homes his entire story. How the first time he disguised as a beggar to make a research an write a news about the life of a beggar, but he realize that as a beggar he can earn more than writing for the newspaper, so he continue as a beggar and used the opium house to disguise him, so when his wife saw him he tried to escape and dropped his clothes with the coins out of the building but the police caught him and put in jail.

The story is really interesting, until the end of the story the author caught your entire attention, because you didn’t have any little idea about what would happen. The way the author goes deep into the details of the personality of each character make us trust in the ability of Holmes to solve the case, in the capability of awesome of Watson or in the desperation of Mrs. Sinclair. But without a doubt the end of the story is the most surprising part you never imagine how the things will end, you imagine all kind of things like Mr. Sinclair was murdered, or he run away.

The story is a interesting and captivating tale that I enjoy reading but in the other hand shows a case of real life, how many times we have seen, lawyers or architects working as taxi-drivers or selling food and they live better, but the worst is when we saw little children begging for money in the streets only because it is an easy way to earn money even more productive than study a major.