This book was made because Miss Rice is a very dynamic teacher, and she wants everyone learn in a different way. In this semester all her students in this class read three books. The last one was our choice, so how I love suspense and action stories I chose The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. I hope you like this story because I read this novel in three days.

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Author: Robert Louis Steveson

First published by Penguin Books 1999

(This edition 2008)

This is a story about a lawyer in London who had three old friends. His two friends are doctors, but one of them was doing a bad experiments. Suddenly, a mysterious man who seemed evil and no one in London knew him appeared.

This evil man was a new friend of the doctor, but the lawyer had his doubts because everything in this man seemed evil and mysterious.

Everything was very strange, yet the lawyer continued with his loneness life. When the first friend died, he left a letter explaining why everything was so strange, but he cannot read it because the other friend, who was doing a bad experiments, was alive. The lawyer had to wait until the other friend died.

Before the bad doctor died, he wrote a letter explaining his part of the story. He invented an experiment that made him become another person. A person who was evil, and he had the capacity and the desire to do a very bad things. This man was the evil half of the doctor.

Description of 

the main 

characters

The lawyer’s name was Mr. Utterson, and he was a serious man who was never brightened by a smile. He rarely showed his feelings. He was tall, dull, but lovable person. He was a good-natured in everything he did.

Dr Jekyll was tall and well-built man. He was rich, respected and an honorable man. He helped others, especially poor families, but he had a pleasures in secret.

Mr. Edward Hyde was a very strange man with something wrong and terrible with his appearance. He had a very ununsual-looking man. He was short, small and very plainly dressed. He had an ugly face, and he spoke in a strange, rough voice.

Pitiless: feeling or showing no pity; merciless

Hatred: the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.

Strengthened: to make stronger; give strength to.

Inner: situated within or farther within; interior.

Locksmith: a person who makes or repairs locks and keys.

Crowded: filled to excess; packed.

Quarrel: an angry dispute or altercation; a disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations.

Butler: the chief male servant of a household, usually in charge of serving food, the care of silverware, etc.

Rushing: a sequence of social events sponsored by a fraternity or sorority for prospective members prior to bidding and pledging.

Reference here:

 http://www.dictionary.com/

Two quotes from the book:

I decided to use the last chapter to choose this quotations because in this chapter Dr. Jekyll explained what was really happening in his life. All the mystery of the book unravels in the last chapter.

Dr. Jekyll wrote “I had reached this stage when my laboratory experiments began to throw light on the matter. I began to realize, more deeply than anyone has yet stared” (Stevenson, 49).

In my opinion, this is very important because the doctor was trying to explain to his friend the lawyer why he did that experiment and why he continued until the end.

Dr Jekyll wrote “this guilty despair was followed by a sense of joy, because the problem of my double life was solved. Hyde was impossible” (Stevenson, 56).

I believe that he decided to do the right thing because he admitted that he had a double life and a big problem with this. The evil person inside him wanted to go out, and the doctor was losing the control of it.

Recommendation:

This is a classic book, so I think everyone should read it. I recommend this book because it is a story when you can find details of a different age from yours. In this story, they had no electricity or cars, so they walk and enjoy every morning. It is interesting know how they lived with things that we have now. Things that for us are normal, and we do not paid attention to that kind of things.

As always it is a pleasure take a class with you Miss Rice.

Thanks for your patient and dedication.