Thursday, December 16, 2010

"Story of the Door" Reaction

            In the passage, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, There are many moments that teach lessons from the nineth century. Of course, back then people had a different way of thinking. The rich looked down on the less fortunate. In the passage, "Story of the Door," the author Stevenson uses biblical allusions to support his ideas and thoughts and give detail to each character. One example is, " I incline to Cain's heresy...I let my brother go to the devil in his own way," this quote was used as an example. Stevenson wrote that Mr. Utterson envied the way bad peopple did bad deeds just like Cain's Heresy. This was the begining of the story and helped set the mode and also the theme. Finally, Mr. Utterson is a positive thinker and never over exaggerates his thoughts which is the complete opposite of Mr. Hyde.

Blog Assignment #3

              In the book, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the author Robert Loius Stevenson is a writer of the nineth century. In the beginning of the the story he emphasizes on Mr Utterson. For example, in the first paragraph of "The Story of the Door," Stevenson descibed Mr. Utterson with detail to make him a key person throughout the passage.
              Stevenson says," MR UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty, and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. Stevenson makes Mr. Utterson cantradict himself because he is a cold man, but at the same he is a nice person. Mr. Utterson has a rare personality because he is serious but a person with morals. In the past people of the nineth century had morals and education and that is what Mr. Utterson shows in the first paragraph of in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Blog Assignment #4 - Persuasive assignment

              In the story, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a maid called the police because she believes she witnessed a murder. First of all, she was going to sleep in her room which had a perfect view of the street outside and she noticed a man passing by. She observed that eye catching man and did not pay attention to the shorter man. Then, she saw them having a conversation and the short man with a cane transformed into a beast. The shorter less appealing man stepped on the other man's foot and then hurt him with the cane mulitple of times. The maid was so startled she fainted. When she woke up, she called the cops and of course there was evidence of the monstrousity at the crime scene. The cops found one part of the broken cane in the sewer and in the victim's pocket, an envelope with the address of Mr. Utterson. This information was given to the lawyer the next morning and he went to recognize the corpse of Sir Danvers Carew.
Mr. Utterson and the officer go to Mr. Hyde's house and the atmosphere is dark, melancholy and has a bad vibe. At the suspected murderers house everything shows that the murder was no accident. The other part of the cane was behind a door, and a cheque book that was saved by the fire was founnd. Of course, there were many burnt papers and a mess in the rooms of Mr. Hyde's house. When their is a witness, evidence of a horrible action this is enough to put Mr. Hyde in Trial. If I was a lawyer in this case I would try to cinvince the jury that Mr. Hyde is guilty because there are enough evidence to support my idea. As a lawyer, I would try to find more witnesses and would go further in the decision that I am making. But in this story, Mr. Utterson is more about trusting and he has a lot more patience compared to me.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Multiple Personality Disorder

 Multiple personality disorder affects almost half of the people in the world and it is caused because of past disturbances. Emotional and physical conflicts in the past makes people with this sickness act out without noticing. When someone is diagnosed with the disorder it is hard to treat because depression and trauma are part of this illness. Also when anyone has this diagnostic they are unaware because their brain blocks out their thoughts. Many people are undiagnosed and can take a whole lifetime to figure out. Many side affects are attached with this illness for example, suicidal attempts, physical pain, and also sleeping disordes. in the website WEBMD their is more information on help and what Multiple personality is all about.