Sherlock Holmes Book Report

Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Date of Publication: 2009

Why is this text a biography/autobiography?

Sherlock Holmes is considered a fictional character; however, through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's acute description of the character through the view of Dr. John Watson, who is Sherlock Holmes' most trusted assistant, friend, and flatmate, we can consider this book (which has a collection of twelve stories) a biography of Holmes.

What area/field is your person known and why? Why is his/her story worth recording?

The field Sherlock Holmes is known for is through him being one of the best detectives (in the fictional world). He is greatly known for his keen observations and deductions of the mysteries he solves. He was also considered equal to a genius as through his vast knowledge of ideas, which makes him a better thinker in terms of deductions. His story is worth recording because he proves to be a role model through his intelligence and the way he thinks. The books of Sherlock Holmes are also worth recording as Conan has written the greatest mystery which makes one think: how can someone come up with many adventures with ingenious plots and resolutions, all involving Sherlock Holmes.

What was the focus or theme of the text? Explain, drawing on examples from the text.

The focus of the text is mainly on the mysteries Sherlock Holmes solves. We do not really find out much about his family. It is vaguely about Sherlock Holmes' achievements as it speaks of his successfully solved crimes, and does not really show his faults in any way. There are various themes in the book. As Dr. Watson observes Holmes during one of the stories, Scandal in Bohemia, and says: "Holmes was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine..." The book also includes society and class as Holmes does not consider the social status of his clients, but the mystery they assign to him. However, the most important and most apparent themes in the book are mystery and adventure. Conan instils that Holmes engages in the most interesting of cases that one might think that they impossible to solve. In The Red-Headed League, Sherlock Holmes encounters a case where a red-headed man was to work for another man who pays quite a lot. However, the red-headed man's only work is to write the Encyclopaedia from A-Z, and getting paid every day with a considerable amount. But after two months, the red-headed man discovers that his employer had disappeared. He seeks for Sherlock Holmes, and in short, Holmes discovers that the employer was actually digging through to a bank and attempting to steal money, but was intercepted by Holmes himself, and three others (including Watson). We can also