Author's Note: Most of the stories in Sherlock Holmes are fiction. The case holds true in The Five Orange Pips, but the conflict feels more real. This is because the K.K.K is in this story, and they were all too real. And to minimize confusion, a pip is a seed.
A mysterious five orange seeds arrive in the mail, and a note asking for papers. What papers, who's sending this, why me? For answers, none other than the famous Sherlock Holmes is contacted. It is all figured out, but it is too late. The man is dead. This is the story of The Five Orange Pips. In the story, the man is killed, by none other than the infamous Ku Klux Klan. This I connected to real life, because it is something I actually knew existed. The majority of the book I felt was some sort of made up fantasy, but with this story, it actually felt like something real.
A mysterious five orange seeds arrive in the mail, and a note asking for papers. What papers, who's sending this, why me? For answers, none other than the famous Sherlock Holmes is contacted. It is all figured out, but it is too late. The man is dead. This is the story of The Five Orange Pips. In the story, the man is killed, by none other than the infamous Ku Klux Klan. This I connected to real life, because it is something I actually knew existed. The majority of the book I felt was some sort of made up fantasy, but with this story, it actually felt like something real.
The whole book is dealing with made up characters, and for what I know, made up mysteries. However, in The Five Orange Pips, it's all too real. In a sense. I feel it is actually unlikely for this to be a real story. The plot may have been made up, but the antagonist of the story was not. We learned about the Ku Klux Klan once in school, so I know a little background of them, and this made the story more exciting to read. It also made me realize the seriousness of the story, that the K.K.K. is not to mess around with. Knowing about the general evil in the story made me feel more connected to it.
Of the stories, this one felt the most connected. The other stories were hard to connect to, seeing as they are set a hundred years ago in a different country. Not only that, as a whole nothing really happened that made me think of a connection. The Five Orange Pips was the outlier of the stories, I felt it took a break from the usual romantic fantasy of the book over to a more serious and real life situation. This story seemed like a real life matter with real life people, and that made me connect to it.
I agree with how finding something you have learned about in school is used again somewhere else. I also thought you used good vocabulary throughout your writing.
ReplyDeleteYou shouldn't say "I think," or "I feel." The Authors Note made the post easier to read.
ReplyDeleteI didn't read the Sherlock Holmes book so I was a little confused in the first paragraph it is important to think about your readers and if they will understand where you are coming from in your response. Your response doesn't sound forced like some do, but it sounds like a real person and that is an important skill to have when writing a paper because in the long run nobody cares if you used some huge fancy vocabulary word in paragraph three, they wouldn't even make it that far without falling asleep.
ReplyDeleteI like how you relate to the book using prior knowledge. You had a good use of vocabulary.
ReplyDeleteI really like your intro. Also, you used good vocabulary throughout the story.
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