Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

 This book has three stories. First is The Speckled Band. A woman wanted Holmes to help her. She said “I’m afraid of death.” Two years ago, her sister was died, but the death was wrapped in mystery. She didn’t know the reason why her sister was dead, and she didn’t want to die like her sister. Holmes and Watson started a search in her house... 

Next is A Scandal in Bohemia. A man came to see Holmes, and the man was a king of Bohemia! He wanted Holmes to find a photograph he and a woman are on. People know the photo, it’s may be a big scandal, so he wanted to find as soon as possible. The woman was having the photo, and He wanted Holmes to get it from her...

Last is The Five Oranges Pips. A man came to see Holmes, and he asked for help. He got a strange letter, and he was so terrible, because he had seen the same letter before. The letter was delivered for his uncle and his father, and they were died as soon as the letter was arrived. Holmes and The next day, the man was died...

Those stories are interesting! I recommend to read it! 

Sherlock Holmes and the Duke’s Son

     One day, a man came to see Holmes, and he wanted to Holme’s help. A student and a teacher disappeared in his school. A student was a son whose father was government minister, so he wanted Holmes to solve the problem before people know the news.Holmes and Watson started the search, and they found the dead body. The body was the teacher they were looking for...

I was so surprised the offender and the motive for the crime, and he and the accessory to the crime were selfish. However, the story is interesting. 

 

Christmas in Prague

 Jan lived with his wife and his father. One day, she decided to join three concerts as a harpist in Prague in December, and he and his father go with her to see the concert. However, a sad thing happened! She got hit by a bus before the concert. They met a man who called a ambulance for her, and the man looked like Jan very much! In Christmas, a happy thing happened to them...

Traffic accident is so sad, but I’m happy to read the climax. They met by chance, but the meeting is a miracle! 

Huckleberry Finn

    This is the continuation of the book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”. Huckleberry lived with Widow Douglas and he lived well, but the life is so stiff for him. Therefore, he ran away with Jim, a black slave who was running away. The life was so hard, because some people pursued them to catch Jim. Black slaves were banned to escape from the owner, and to do so was crime. To miss the escaped slaves was the same. Could they run away?...

I’m so excited to read this book and I was surprised the climax! I knew the harsh reality about the black slaves, too. This book is a fiction, but slavery was an obvious fact. This book tell us an important thing. 

 

Death in the Freezer

   A girl was loved by her parents before his brother was born. Her parents loved her brother and they weren’t interested in her, so she hated him. After they grew up, she became a nurse. Her brother began  rock band and he became famous. He looked down her, because he looked his parents who were indifferent to her and didn’t cherish her. She wasn’t happy and she...

I think this book is so disgusting. Her family’s behavior infuriated me, but I was terrified of her behavior. 

A Little Princess

     A little girl and her father arrived in London, and she was going to attend school there. The family was so rich, so she was loved many people in the school. She was rich, but she was a kind girl. Therefore, some people really loved her for her kindness, not her money. One day, her father was dead and she became poor. Therefore, most of people didn’t cherish her, because she wasn’t rich, but some people loved her. She lived positively in spite of her lives in poverty. One day, an happy incident happened to her...

I was so surprised that she was kind and positive girl when she became poor. I want to follow her example, because she was so wonderful if she wasn’t rich. I’m happy to read this story’s climax. What happened to her? I want to read it and look the climax!

The Elephant Man

 Do you know “Elephant Man”? Elephant man is a man who is very ugly, and he looks like a creature, not a man! This book is written about his life. 

One day, a doctor found a poster at the shop and he came in the shop to see the man in the poster. The man   was so ugly, and he had never seen ugly man like him. He was a doctor who got used to seeing ugly people such as a sick person, an injured person, and so on, but the doctor was so surprised to see Elephant man. The doctor was interested in the Elephant man and helped him... 

This book is written about the Elephant man’s short, but happy life. I was so surprised to read this book. He was so ugly, but he was so kind man. What made him kind? “Why was he happy? I want you to read and look the answer!