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.