BOOK REPORT

I am going to do my book report about the two stories of Sherlock Holmes that I liked most, while I was reading that stories I found them really interesting and exciting about the main story which them describes.

THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP

"The Man with the Twisted Lip", is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the sixth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine in December 1891.

Summary

The desperate wife of Mr. Neville Sinclair, a respectable and punctual country businessman asked for help to Sherlock Holmes because her husband has disappeared. Mrs. Sinclair is sure that she saw her husband at a second-floor window in an opium house and seemed that he was waving his hand but suddenly he disapeared, she was really confused because she saw that her husband´s clothes were diferent. She tried to enter to the building, but the owner of the opium house didn´t allow her to enter. She came to the place with the police, but they cannot find Mr. Sinclair. In the window which she saw her husband couldnt find anythingbut there was other room of a dirty, ugly beggar, well known to the police, by the name of Hugh Boone where the police found her husband's clothes. Later, his coat was also found, with the pockets full of several coins just below the building.
The beggar was arrested and taken at the police station, and Holmes initially is quite convinced that Mr.Sinclair has been the unfortunate victim of murder. However, several days after Mr. Sin Clair´s disappearance, his wife receives a letter in his own writing. The arrival of this letter forces Holmes to reconsider his conclusions, leading him to an extraordinary solution. Holmes bagan to join all the clues and got an incredible solution taking a bath sponge to the police station, Holmes washes Boone's still-dirty face, causing the mess to fall away and his face to be revealed — the face of Neville Sinclair! Upon Mr. Sinclair's immediate confession, this solves the mystery.

Mr. Sinclair had been leading a double life, one of respectability, and the other as a beggar. In his youth, he had been an actor before becoming a newspaper reporter. He had to research an article, he had disguised himself as a beggar for a short time, during which he was given a very large amount of money. Given a choice between his newspaper salary and his high beggar earnings, he eventually became a professional beggar. He realized that he could earn more money as a beggar that in the newspaper. His takings were large enough that he was able to establish himself as a country gentleman, marry well, and begin a respectable family. His wife never knew that, and Holmes agrees to preserve Mr. Sinclair´s secret.

Analysis
That story is really incredible due to the way that Holmes resolved the mystery, when the mystery is resolved, it turns out that no crime has been committed and there is no villain; and unlike other stories, Holmes in the same story explain how he solved the mystery and how the clues are given in the story.

Holmes show us that his intelligence is not enough, the most important to resolve a case is to have imagination.

Conclusion

I decided to report that story because it was which I enjoyed most, I think cause the writter describes the scenes so realistic that you can imagine all the scenery and it was really interesting for me.

SILVER BLAZE

"Silver Blaze", is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of the twelve in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.Is one of the most popular of the stories, "Silver Blaze"and focuses on the disappearance of the race horse named Silver Blaze, a famous winner, on the eve of an important race and on the apparent murder of its trainer, John Straker.

Holmes arrived to the place of the murder and the dissapearance ( King´s Pyland) and the inspector Gregory has already arrested a man in connection with John Straker's murder, his name is Simpson, who has come to King's Pyland, to get information relating to his professional activities, for betting in the Wessex Cup, the race in which Silver Blaze is to run. However there seem to be a number of facts that don't seem to fit the inspector's case against Simpson. Holmes ensures Silver Blaze's safety, and turns his mind to other aspects of the case.
John Straker, Silver Blaze's late trainer, has been killed by a great hit in the skull, presumably administered by Simpson with a kind of walking stick. A strange knife was found at the crime scene, a peculiarly delicate using by medical operations. Useful as it is for surgery, it would be rather useless as a weapon. Straker also seems to have hit himself in the leg with him.
Ned Hunter was the boy who was on duty in the stable the night was drugged with opium that someone had put in his supper. traker's pockets contained some interesting things. A pair of candles, a millioner bill for a dress shop more expensive than any horse trainer could afford — made out to a Mr Darbyshire?
Then, of course, there is the curious incident with the dog. There is also a singular problem with the sheep kept at the stable: a shepherd boy tells Holmes that three of his animals have recently gone lame with no reason.
Holmes's powers of deduction unravel the mystery and discover what had happened.He discovered using Straker's photograph, that Straker was Darbyshire, researching in the dress´s shop. The trainer had another woman with expensive tastes and wanted to influence in the race to earn himself large sums of money.
The supper with opium was a clue, too. Only such a dish as that could have masked the taste of powdered opium, and it is beyond reason that Simpson could have made someone at the Straker household come up with the idea of serving a highly spiced meal that evening for his purposes. Therefore, someone in the household must have conceived the idea, namely Straker himself.
Of course, the "curious incident of the dog in the night-time" is now easily explained: the dog made no noise because no stranger was there; it was Straker who removed Silver Blaze from his stall and led him out.
The Straker's purpose in doing this, it was to use the medical knife to cause a slight lameness in one of the horse's legs. The Straker murder was explained too, the horse, sensing that something was wrong, panicked the animal hit the trainer's head.
As to the lame sheep, Straker had apparently used them for surgery practice.
Colonel Ross's main concern, of course, is getting his horse back . Holmes chooses not to tell Ross where his horse has been, although he has known all along, until the moment after the run of the Wessex Cup, which naturally is won by Silver Blaze. At first the Colonel does not recognize his own horse because the animal's trademark white markings have been covered with dye. Holmes then explains why, and all other details of the case, step by step, to the satisfaction of the Colonel, Watson, and Inspector Gregory.

INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT EPILEPSY

This week I heard a very interesting article about epilepsy, this disease is more common than we can imagine. The interview with a doctor explained how the epilepsy can be present in many forms and each person's experience is different relationated with the symptoms and with the posibble causes of the disease.

The doctor said that the brain must be working as a perfect machine and the most minimum inbalance can cause problems like yhe epilepsy. Common causes include brain damage from injuries during the birth, head injuries, strokes, brain tumours and alcoholism.

The most importan we have to know about this disease is the managing of the patients,,, if we are really prepared in one case of epilepsy we could avoid more damages like tongue´s bites or phisics blows.

THE ENORMOUS TURNIP

This week I read that nice story which talk about an old marriage (a couple of elders) who had planted turnip's seeds with the passage of time the turnips started to grew up and became so big that the old man and the old woman couldn´t come them out of the ground, a neighbour who was passing by the place decided to help them but neither with his help they couldn get it, but with the help of their pets a dog, sheeps and a small robin they finally had their turnip and the old woman made a delicious turnip soup and everybody enjoyed it.

Now I am going to write about a story similar to this one. Three years ago my father decided to plant tomatoes in a big piece of land in the place where he was born here in Guerrero, but everything had started just like a weekend activity to relax him and forget the busy life of the city. But with the passage of the time he realized that the crop was too much that the people who were helping him was not enough. The quantity of vegetables that they had to recolect was a lot and finally my father asked for a permission at his job and went to the town for helping my uncles and until we (my mother and my brothers) had to go to the crop. But finally we understand that with the help of everybody everything is easier.