THE SPECKLED BAND The second story I red was The Speckled Band written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and adapted by Philip Nokes. The story talked about the avarice of people talking about money and the action they are able to do when they are afraid of loose what they had, and the way a recognize person can become a murderer using his intelligence and courage.
The story took place at Stoke, a village near London, in which Roylott family lives, two sisters, Julia and Helen, and their stepfather. The mother of both died years ago and left all her money to her husband Mr. Roylott, and established that when her daughters married they can receive a part of the heritage. Two years ago one Julia died just before she gets married, and the Helen is about to married so she was worried about what would happened with her so she went with Mr. Holmes to asked him if he can helped her to discover how her sister died. She only can told Mr. Holmes some clues like, some days after Julia died she told her she had heard some noises like a whistle and a sound of metal, and when she died her last word was “the band, the speckled band”, that she died in her room which was locked totally and some things about his stepfather Mr Roylott, like he was a violent person who had pets like a tiger and a monkey.
Mr. Holmes went with Dr. Watson to Roylott house in stoke an took a look off all the things in Helen`s room the place where she was supposed to died, and in which was staying Julia temporally. He observed that in the room was a ventilator with a rope hanging of it and that the bed was fixed to the floor, and in Mr. Roylott room he found an iron box with a plate of milk above it. Mr. Holmes ask Helen to stay in Julia’s room until Mr. Roylott arrived an after he got into his room she had to return to her room and left Julia`s room light turn on. When Holmes and Watson saw the light they went to Julia’s room window and waited there until they heard some noise in the ventilator just in that moment Mr. Holmes hit the rope with a stick and after that they heard a horrible scream in Mr. Roylott’s room they arrived there and found Mr. Roylott sitting at his chair with a speckled band in his neck; a snake. Mr. Holmes deduce that Mr. Roylott had killed Julia by introducing the snake in her room and letting it killed her, but this time when Holmes hit the snake it returns to Mr. Roylott room and killed him.
The story is really interesting, the way the author has the imagination to create such big scenery with all kind of details about how the murderer planed everything is surprising, and how everything Helen said can helped Mr. Holmes to solve the case and to connect everything. The author had the ability to make us imagine every little detail like the sound of the metal when Mr. Roylott put the snake in the box.
The story is captivating and keeps you interested until the end. It shows us the terrible things people are able to do when they are not satisfied with the material things they had, this is a problem we can see everywhere we go, people fighting for the best economic status without taking care of human beings.
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