I Survived
In a book series entitled “I Survived” there was once a book written where a summary would sound ridiculous. This summary would be along the lines of, once there was a family of four including a father, mother, sister, and brother. The sister a mere six years old had been a genius in finance and accounting. Her brother, around eleven years older than her, had however not been a genius. The events of this book were as follows; first there was a family vacation with a hotel under construction, next an earthquake, after that an aftershock, consequently a fire in the hotel, following that a tsunami, and finally after two kids survive all of this they are reunited with their now somewhat useless parents. This book, even being an extreme exaggeration
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The whole first half of the book could really be considered front matter, since no conflict occurs besides the confusion of the previous death of Sir Charles Baskervilles. The reader is introduced to a Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and his partner, Dr. John Watson. After receiving and accepting the case of the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskervilles, John travels to Baskerville to meet the people of the moor and solve the case. The rest of the first few chapters of the book could be described as exactly that, seeing as though nothing else happens. Sir Charles does not die in the book, but before the book starts and the only true conflict in the book is the attempt to solve the case of how he died. He did die in an undoubtedly unique way, but this is still not a huge problem because the main characters would not be affected by the outcome of the case. Mr. Holmes only took the case in the first place because of how oddly it was presented to him. In London Dr. Mortimer, a friend of Sir Charles, sought the help of Mr. Holmes and went to him with great appeal, “‘ Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!’”. Intrigued, Sherlock set John on the case, only to write to him back in London about all the people he will have talked to and his impression of them. These letters, along with the present thoughts of John, make up the first eight chapters of the
The whole first half of the book could really be considered front matter, since no conflict occurs besides the confusion of the previous death of Sir Charles Baskervilles. The reader is introduced to a Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and his partner, Dr. John Watson. After receiving and accepting the case of the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskervilles, John travels to Baskerville to meet the people of the moor and solve the case. The rest of the first few chapters of the book could be described as exactly that, seeing as though nothing else happens. Sir Charles does not die in the book, but before the book starts and the only true conflict in the book is the attempt to solve the case of how he died. He did die in an undoubtedly unique way, but this is still not a huge problem because the main characters would not be affected by the outcome of the case. Mr. Holmes only took the case in the first place because of how oddly it was presented to him. In London Dr. Mortimer, a friend of Sir Charles, sought the help of Mr. Holmes and went to him with great appeal, “‘ Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!’”. Intrigued, Sherlock set John on the case, only to write to him back in London about all the people he will have talked to and his impression of them. These letters, along with the present thoughts of John, make up the first eight chapters of the