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"The rapid deduction, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a logical basis with which he unravaelled the problems which were submitted to him'' (Doyle 1). Slherlock Holmes is a detective, and the main character of The Adventure of the Speckled Band. It was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, it is a mystery. The two twists in this story are when Dr. Roylott appears at Holmes' residence, and when he dies by his snake's fangs. To begin with, Holmes' wakes up is parner, Dr, Watson, because there was a client. Helen Stoner was the person who needed help, and she told the story about her sister, Julia. After she left, Dr. Roylott appears at Sherlock's home in a fit of anger. He threatens Holmes, and then he bends a poker, but Sherlock is calm during the entire incident. "That our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had framed himself in the aperture" (5). Next, Holmes was beating up the speckled band and drove it away to Dr. Roylott's chamber. The speckled band was full of fury, and so it takes it out on him. He was oblivious to it, but then he felt fear, and he died within a few seconds after he was …show more content…
It did not feel fictional, and it was made in the old times. If the plot was different, then it would probably not feel interesting as interesting anymore. I chose those two twists because they are more easier to explain in my opinion. It was easy to explain because it was ironic when Dr. Roylott died, and he even tracked down his stepdaughter to know where she was. In conclusion, Dr. Roylott's twist's were at the beginning and at the end of the story. The past is the past, but it can not be forgotten is what Helen feels when she has to sleep in her sister's chamber. The investigators later finds out that it was a snake who took Dr. Roylott and Julia as its victim. Victims are sometimes made into killers, and the wrongdoers will roam around in freedom until they are

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