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Finished it/Reading in English

I had never heard of this story before so until I had read three or four chapters I didn´t know what was going on. Once I started understanding the whole story, I was anxious to know the end of the book. I think the majority of the chapters were catchy and entertaining. Maybe there were situations that were too long to what they actually wanted to explain but overall I really like the book.

I hope our next lecture will be as good as this one!

About reading in english, I think this book has help me a lot to improve my vocabulary since there were a few words that I didn´t know until I look for them in the dictionary. Reading in english is a very good thing if we want to learn new ways of expressing ourselves. I think this book has a higher level than the ones that we had read in the past but this is actually a good thing because it can help us with our reading exams.

Chapter nine: Doctor Jekyll´s confession

Vocabulary
fun-loving: marchós/ agradar la festa
bitter: amarg
masterful: autoritari

Summery

Doctor Henry Jekyll explains that in his early age, he was a fun-loving man but at the same time he was a serious, hard-working doctor. So he learned to keep his two lives separated. He was sure that everyone has two sides of character. So he though that it would be a great idea to separate these two characters. He found out a potion which could transform him into another person, Mr Hyde. But one day he needed so desperately to get free, that he drank the poison again. Mr Hyde went mad and he even murdered Mr Carew. After that, he started to change whenever Mr Hyde wanted to. Mr Hyde had became stronger than Dr Jekyll. That was when he decided to contact Dr Lanyon, who never believed in his experiments. The horror on Dr Lanyon's face made Dr Jekyll realise that the problem was worst, and he  tried to change his feelings, but it was too late because Mr Hyde took his body whenever he wanted. Dr Jekyll wouldn't return any more. 

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Chapter Eight: Doctor Lanyon´s Letter

Vocabulary
remained: continuat
locksmith: amb traça/manya

Summery

Mr Utterson decided to read Doctor Lanyon´s letter. In it, Lanyon said that one day he received a letter from Henry Jekyll Dr Jekyll said he wanted him to collect a book, chemical powders and a bottle from his house and give them to a man who will come to his house at midnight. He accepted the challenge but he thought Lanyon was crazy. Poole received the a similar letter, so together they went through the old laboratory and he took the book, the bottle and the powders. Then he met the strange man at midnight, once he had arrived to his house. He was Mr Hyde, and when Dr Lanyon gave him the box with the things in it, Mr Hyde told him he could go, or stay and watch. Lanyon decided to stay and he saw how Mr Hyde drank a potion and how he became into Doctor Jekyll. After reading the letter, Utterson was frightened but he was brave enough to opened the confession of Doctor Jekyll.

Chapter Seven: The last night

Vocabulary
to weep: plorar
axe:hacha

Summery

One night, Mr Utterson recived a visit of Doctor Jekyll´s servant, Poole. He explained to Utterson that he was frightened of his master and that he had been acting quite strangely the last few weeks. Utterson decided to go to his friend´s house and as he entered in the house he noticed that something was wrong. Poole and Utterson went to the laboratory in order to listen to the strange noises that all the servants had been hearing. Poole knocked the door but a strange voice inside of the room said: I cannot see anyone. The lawyer noticed that it wasn´t his friend´s voice. Then Poole told Utterson that his master had been murdered and that the murderer was inside the laboratory. He had been listening to him crying because he couldn´t find a specific type of chemicals. Poole told also that he once saw his face but it was covered with a mask. They decided to get into the laboratory. They saw Edward Hyde laying on the floor because he had taken poison.They saw a pocket with different envelopes adressed to Mr Utterson. The first led Dr Jekyll's money to Mr Utterson, the second told Mr Utterson to open the third after reading Dr Lanyon's letter.

Chapter Six: The face at the window

Vocabulary
courtyard: pati
nodded: assentir(amb el cap)

Summery

One Sunday, Mr Utterson and his friend Enfield went for a walk and they passed through the narrow side-street. They decided to visited Doctor Henry Jekyll. At first, he was pleased to see them but at the same time he was sad. Jekyll was talking with them through a window but suddenly as they where talking the windows was shut with a bang...

Chapter Five: The death of a friend

Vocabulary

buried: enterrament
carefree: despreocupat

Summery

The time had passed and the police couldn´t find where Mr Hyde was. On the other hand, Doctor Jekyll appeared happier and he even invited Mr Utterson and Dr Lanyon to a dinner in his house, like in the old times. But then Dr Jekyll refused to see visitors again. Poole excused him. One day Utterson went to visit Doctor Lanyon and he was very surprised because Lanyon looked very sick, like a man who knew that he was dying. He refused to talk about Doctor Jekyll. When Utterson arrived to his home, he decided to write a letter to Jekyll asking him explanations. Dr Jekyll replied him saying he was not angry with Dr Lanyon, but they both should never meet again. Weeks later, Doctor Lanyon died. Mr Utterson opened his will but inside of the will there was an evelope with the words: Not to be opened until the death or disappearance of Doctor Henry Jekyll. Mr Utterson decided not to open the envelope. Utterson called at Jekyll´s house almost every day but he got tired of his friend´s refusal to see him, and his visits became less frequent.

Chapter Four: Doctor Jekyll receives a letter

Vocabulary
glass-fronted cupboards: armari de vidre
feverish: amb febre
clerk: empleat/treballador

Summery

Mr Utterson went to Doctor Jekyll´s house. Dr Jekyll told him that he had listened to the murder, and he promised to Mr Utterson that he would never met Mr Hyde again, because he had dissapeard forever. Mr Utterson advised his friend that if Hyde get caught and came to trial, his name would be mentioned. Then the Doctor told Utterson that he had recived a letter but he couldn´t have it in his house because of this reputation. It was from Edward Hyde. Utterson told to his friend that he was sure that Hyde was trying to kill Jekyll in order to inherit the money of the will. Then Poole, the servant, told Mr Utterson that he had a letter for him that had arrived that same morning.  When he arrived to his home, Mr Guest, a man who was very interested in handwriting compeard the letter from Mr Hyde and one letter from Doctor Jekyll, and he arrived to the conclusion that the handwriting was very similar between the two letters. 

Chapter Three: The Carew Murder

Vocabulary

weapon: arma
carpet: catifa
Summery

One night a servant girl was looking out at the moonlit street when suddenly she saw how Mr Hyde was hitting with his stick to an old man. He beat the body until all his bones were broken. After, the murderer had disappeared, but the dead man was still lying on the street. The stick had broken in the middle and it was laying beside the murdered man along with a gold watch, a purse, and a letter addressed to Mr Utterson.  The next morning, the police contacted with Mr Utterson who inmediatly recognize the dead body, it was Sir Danvers Carew. Mr Utterson recognize also the broken stick because he had given to Henry Jekyll many year ago.  The next day, the police inspector and Mr Utterson went to Mr Hyde´s house, but the servant said that he wasn´t at home. The police inspector and Mr Utterson came into the house in order to find some clues. Finally, they found part of a cheque book and the other half of the murder weapon. 

Chapter Two: In search of Mr Hyde

Vocabulary

companionably: amigablament
hesitate: vacilar
sharply: bruscament

Summery

Mr. Uterson went to his office and he found the will of Doctor Henry Jekyll, and as he was reading the will he couldn´t understand why Henry Jekyll would like to leave everything to Edward Hyde who was an evil man. Uterson decided to go to see an old friend, Doctor Lanyon, who also know Henry Jekyll. Dr.Lanyon told that he hadn´t seen Henry for many years because he had came up with some strange, wild, unscientific ideas. Finally, Mr.Uterson went home because his friend didn´t know anything about Edward Hyde. Mr. Uterson was decided to discover who Edward Hyde so he spent many hours in the narrow street where Enfield had seen Hyde. Finally, one day he saw him and he asked him if Jekyll was at home, but he wasn´t living with him so Mr Hyde gave to Utterson his adress. Mr Utterson went to his friend´s house and knocked at the door but the servant told him that Dr.Jekyll was not at home. The servant explained to him that Mr Hyde had his own key to go to the laboratory of Doctor Jekyll.,

Then one night Doctor Jekyll gave a dinner party for a few old friend and Utterson was among them. He told him that he didn´t agreed with his will, but Jekyll told him that he care a lot about his friend.

Chapter One: The mysterious door

Vocabulary

evil-doers: malfactors

thoughtfully: pensativament

demeanour: comportament

courtyard: pati
fetched: apropar/agafar

Summery

In this first chapter we are introduced to Mr Utterson who is a quiet, serious man and he works as a lawyer. He is kind and good with other people. He doesn´t have many friends but he has one that´s called Richard Enfield and they are very different from each other. They like to take long walks through the streets of London and they often go to a strange, dark building. In one of this walks, Mr Enfield told to his friend one anecdote that happened to him  a while ago. Mr Enfield explained that one night, he was walking along the street where the strange building is and he saw that a little girl and a short man bumped into each other and the child fell down, but the man walked all over the child´s body. Then Mr Enfield fetched the man who gave a proud, black look to him. Mr Enfield adviced him that he would tell to all the people what happened. The strange man agreed to gave money to the child´s family and to him. Mr Utterson was surprised because he knew who the strang man was and that he lived in this strange, dark building. His name was Hyde.

The characters of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Mr Utterson: he is a quiet,serious man who works as a lawyer. He is the main character of the book who helps to resolve the mistery of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Richard Enfield: is one of the few friends that Mr Utterson has, he is his cousin and they are very different from each other but they get on really well. 

Doctor Jekyll: he used to be one of Mr Utterson´s friends but they distanced from each other as Doctor Jekyll became a strange, reserved man. When he drinks the potion he becomes into Mr Hyde.

Mr Hyde: is the other half of Doctor Jekyll. It´s the fun-loving, crazy side. But he gets out of control and he even kills an old man.

Doctor Lanyon: he used to be Doctor Jekyll´s friend, but since Jekyll expresses his strange scientific theories they don´t get on well.

Poole: he is the servant of Doctor Jekyll and he has worked for his master for over twenty years. He is one of the first persons that noticed the strange behaviour in Doctor Jekyll.

Mr Guest: he´s Mr Utterson´s  chief clerk. He´s really interested in the study of handwriting, and he´s one of the persons that recognized the similarity of the handwriting between Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

The author of: Strange case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

In November 1867 Stevenson entered Edinburgh University to study law, where he pursued his studies  until 1872. Instead of concentrating on academic work, he busied himself in learning how to write. The most significant work from his student days was "On a New Form of Intermittent Light for Lighthouses,"a scientific piece, and after that moment he decided that he want to become a writer.

When Stevenson left Scotland so abruptly he temporarily estranged his parents. They were also upset about his relationship with a married woman. Fanny Osbourne and Stevenson were married on 19 May 1880 in San Francisco.

Between 1880 and 1887, his literary output was prodigious. Writing was one of the few activities he could do when he was ill.  he wrote some of his most enduring fiction, notably Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886), Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and The Black Arrow(1888). He was also busy writing essays and collaborating on plays with W. E. Henley, the poet, essayist, and editor who championed Stevenson in London literary circles and who became the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island.

A new beginning

Hello everyone!

I created this blog for my english subject. Here I will write about all the books that we are going to read this year such as Slumdog Millionaire, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde...

I hope you enjoy it and don´t forget to comment down below any suggestions that you have or recommendations in order to improve my blog :)