The+Crooked+Man

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: The Crooked Man

Point of View: First Person

Protagonist: Sherlock Holmes

What type of character is the Protagonist? Round and Static

Antagonist: Henry Wood

Describe the setting: England, Aldershot, 1900's, and the atmosphere is mysterious.

Type of Conflict: Man vs. Society

Describe the main conflict: The conflict is when Sherlock Holmes tries to figure out who killed Colonel Barclay.

Describe the Climax of the Story: Henry wood tells us about how Colonel Barclay died.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? Sherlock Holmes finds out that Colonel Barclay was not a good man and that he died from his own fear and guilt.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. We don't know who the crooked man is, what's his role in the story, or what he does. What is the theme of the story? How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? We don't know who killed Colonel Barclay and Sherlock Holmes is trying to figure who the culprit is, which illustrates the theme mystery because the person who killed Colonel Barclay is a mystery.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? Henry Wood tied up the loose ends of the mystery so that we would understand why Colonel Barclay died. And that's how the mystery was solved.

Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

Simile:  " He had a very dark, fearsome face, and a gleam in his eyes that comes back to me in my dreams. His hair and whiskers were shot with gray, and his face was all crinkled and puckered like a withered apple. They are comparing the old man hunched back man to an old rotten wrinkly apple."

Metaphor: "Miss Morrison is a little ethereal slip of a girl, with timid eyes and blond hair, but I found her by no means wanting in shrewdness and common-sense." They're saying that Miss Morrison looks like a young little girl."

Personification: "Naturally enough she ran down to tell the cook, and the two women with the coachman came up into the hall and listened to the dispute which was raging. Disputes which are arguments are not capable of raging."

Symbol: "The injury from which the unfortunate veteran was suffering was found to be a ragged cut, some two inches long, at the back part of his hard, which had evidently been caused by a violent blow from a blunt weapon. Nor was it difficult to guess what the weapon may have been. Upon the floor, close to the body, was lying a singular club of hard carved wood with a bone handle." This symbolizes that the Colonel had died from a weapon, which caused the gash his head. The club is a red herring but it was a false clue to throw the reader off track of the Colonel's death.

Foreshadowing (give both elements): "On my pressing her, however, she remembered that she heard the word David uttered twice by the lady. The point is of the utmost importance as guiding us towards the reason of the sudden quarrel. The Colonel's name, you remember, was James" If someone completely understood the Hebrew bible they would of known that James has commited an act that David also must of done that was extremely bad. James and David both sent a man to his death to be able to be with a women.

Irony: Henry Wood, "There were two men that loved her, and one that she loved, and you'll smile when you look at this poor thing huddled before the fire, and hear me say that it was for my good looks that she loved me." It was ironic that Henry Wood who claims that he had good looks now is some ugly thing.

Imagery: "The injury from which the unfortunate veteran was suffering was found to be a jagged cut some two inches long at the back part of his head, which had evidently been caused by violent blow from a blunt weapon. Nor was it difficult to guess what that weapon may have been. Upon the floor, close to the body, was lying a singular club of hard carved wood with a bone handle. The Colonel possessed a varied collection of weapons brought from the different countries in which he had fought, and it is conjectured by the police that his club was among his trophies. The servants deny having seen it before, but among the numerous curiosities in the house it is possible that it may have been overlooked."  This quote talks about what weapon had cut Colonel Barclay's head.

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. The class theme "mystery" relates to the crooked man because the story is a mystery about how Sherlock Holmes figure out how Colonel Barclay died.

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