Analysing The adventure of the Speckled band The assessment you will be completing in a few weeks requires you to write the first chapter of a Sherlock Holmes story in the style of Arthur Conan Doyle ID: 285536
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Year 9 Narrative Writing APP
Analysing
The adventure of the Speckled bandSlide2
The assessment you will be completing in a few weeks requires you to write the first chapter of a Sherlock Holmes story in the style of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Therefore we will be analysing
The adventure of the Speckled band
so that you know exactly how to imitate Conan Doyle’s style. Slide3
‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’We will focus our analysis on the following aspects:
Character
Structure
Point of view
Dialogue
DescriptionSlide4
CharacterIn his book about Crime Fiction Greg
Fallis
lists some of the characteristics a real detective needs:
Intense
curiosity
Determination
A fund of diverse information
S
elf beliefProblem solving abilityGood listenerPhysically fitSlide5
CharacterHow many of these features does Holmes have?
Characteristic
Is Holmes like this?
Evidence to back up my opinion
Intense curiosity
Yes
He enjoys solving crimes and mysteries.Slide6
For every hero you need…
A Villain
!
List 5 Villains from any media
(film,
tv
, books, real life)Slide7
Super Villain
For any story, not just a detective story to be truly great, it doesn’t just need a brilliant hero, it also needs a dastardly villain.
These are the 5 characteristics that a great villain needs:
Powerful (Mentally and physically)
Intelligent
Immoral (Lacking a sense of what is right or wrong)
Wounded (Emotional and psychological wounds)
Determined (Possessing an unstoppable drive to achieve their aim)Slide8
Anti-hero
Is Dr
Roylott
a conventional villain?
How many of the key characteristics
does he posses?
Characteristic
Is Dr
Roylott
like this?
Evidence to back up my opinion
Powerful
Yes
He bends a metal poker in half.Slide9
Shoes: What kind of a villain would wear these shoes?Slide10
Anti-hero
outline
Appearance
: What do they look like, facial features, expression, height, weight.
Personality:
What are they like as a person, cunning, clever, evil etc.
Draw your character,
then
write an introduction to your character in the same way that Conan Doyle introduces us to the character of Dr Roylott
.Slide11
The door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man
had framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a
peculiar
mix of the professional and if the agricultural, having a
black top hat
, a
long frock-coat
, and a
pair of high gaiters, with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his breadth seemed to span it across
from side to side. A
large face
,
seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun
, and
marked with every evil passion
, was turned from one to the other of us, while his
deep-set, bile shot eyes, and his
high, thin, fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old bird of prey. Dr Roylott descriptionSlide12