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“Sherlock Holmes” by Auther Conan Doyle


Reviewed by Sota Segawa, Soma Fukuda, Hinata Koba, Tomoka Eura

1: Summery

 This story started with a murder case in a certain country. A man was killed by someone. Unfortunately, his son named James was suspected as a criminal by police. However, Sherlock Holmes, who is a detective, thought he was not a criminal. James has a girlfriend named Maccarthy. She said he was not a criminal to Holmes. While he research about this case, the truth criminal was Maccarthy’s father. He was a bad fellow once upon a time. James’s father knew about this, so he was killed because Maccarthy’s father didn’t want the truth from the past to be revealed.

3: Relevance to modern life

 In this story, Holmes believes in James’ innocence, collects evidence, and deduces the real culprit. This story conveys the importance of not being swayed by one information, but collecting proper evidence and making a judgement. In today’s world, the Internet is widespread and contains a lot of false information. In such a world, it is important to be able to choose the correct information.

4: Author

 This book is written by Auther Conan doyle.He is known as Sherlock holmes. Most people knew that. He was born in Britain.And Doyle was learning medical knowledge when he was young but he also wrote novels. After he released a book about Sherlock Holmes, His books became popular.Hw wrote not only mystery but also SF novels, history novels, adventure novels.In particular, Sherlock holmes series is popular. There is a lot of work. For example, “The sigh of the four”, “ The own of Bohemia” and “The hound of the Baskervilles”

5: Conclusion

 As promised, Holmes used Turner’s statement only to avoid convincing Macarthy’s son. And he was found not guilty based on Turner’s statement. As this story shows, he has exceptional detective skills. And Sherlock Holmes is still a popular mystery novel today. 


12 responses to ““Sherlock Holmes” by Auther Conan Doyle”

  1. I had a lot of trouble to read this report. This is a problem because this book report put the word after “.” I think it is not good because it looks bad. One way to fix this problem is to put the space if you put the word after “.” If you do that, we can read easily and clearly.

  2. I think that the part of Conclusion is too short. You should write it longer. This is because the part of conclusion is important to tighten this report. There are 3 parts and you have to summarize it. If the part of conclusion is until now. The reader’s understanding of this book is incomplete. Therefore you have to write it longer. If you do that, The reader’s easy to read.

  3. After reading this report, I think it is a problem that there are a lot of pronouns in the summery part, so this make it0 unclear who they were referring to. There are many “he”, so it might be clearer if those pronouns are replaced with people’s name. According to this, it is more easier for us to understand this summery.

  4. I think that this report has a trouble. I think it is a little hard to understand because the summary of this report just lists what happened in the story. Many people know the story of Sherlock Holmes, so I think it would be easier to understand if you wrote more emotional aspects of the characters.

  5. I think this report has a trouble. In conclusion, it is too few sentences about this book. This ploblem is that it is a little hard to read because if there are not information about this book, reader can’t understand about this book. One way to fix this problrm is to write more information about this book. If you do that, your audiences eill have a chance to understand your report

  6. I found an issue with the summary section. It simply lists the events in a straightforward manner, making it difficult to understand how those events unfolded. One way to fix this problem is to include the background leading up to these events. By doing so, readers can gain a deeper understanding of the context behind the story and appreciate Holmes’s amazing detective skills.

  7. In reading this report I found a number of problems. Among them, the summary in part 1 explains too little of the content. So it’s a leap and I don’t understand the content very well. Please add some more content. Then it will be easier to understand.

  8. I found a problem in this report. I think the conclusion is too short. If the conclusion is too short, readers can’t understand the important parts of this story. I think you should add more information to make it easier for readers to follow.

  9. I find that one troble in this report. It is that understanding summery is very difficult. It is easy to understand by the scene where a farher is murdered and his son is suspected. However, in this report, the next thing it says is Maccarthy is the truth criminal. I don’t read thins book, so I don’t know who is Maccarthy. I think it is imortant to explain the new character to understand easily for readers.

  10. After reading this story, I think that conclusion is too short. It is difficult for us to understand what is important in this story. It is because conclusion is the most important place to explain a story. So, you should write more about conclusion. If you do that, many people read more easily.

  11. I found a mistake in this report. In conclusion section, sentences is not enough I think. This makes readers difficult to understand what is the conclusion of this book. To improve your report, you have to adjust the amount of sentences in each sections at least so that readers can read this report that has a sense of unity.

  12. This report is difficult to read. The problem is that the summary part just wrote down the events. In addition many people are mentioned in this part. I don’t know from which point of view to read it, so it’s hard to understand. In order to solve this problem, it is necessary to clarify the main character and explain in detail what happened around the main character. That way, this report will be easier to read and understand.

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