I think the most memorable moment is when Mr. Enfield talks about the door and the flashback of it. what happens is: Enfield was walking in the same neighborhood late one night, when he witnessed a shrunken, misshapen man crash into and trample a young girl. He collared the man before he could get away, and then brought him back to the girl, around whom an angry crowd had gathered. The captured man appeared so overwhelmingly ugly that the crowd immediately despised him. The crowd threatened to ruin the ugly man’s good name unless he did something to make amends; the man, seeing himself trapped, bought them off with one hundred pounds, which he obtained upon entering the neglected building through its only door. Strangely enough, the check bore the name of a very reputable man; furthermore, and in spite of Enfield’s suspicions, it proved to be legitimate and not a forgery. Enfield hypothesizes that the ugly culprit had somehow blackmailed the man whose name appeared on the check. Spurning gossip, however, Enfield refuses to reveal that name.
The connection I can makee with the pre-reading article(multiple personality disorder) is that maybe the man who brought the check and the man who signed are the same people but appear different. Maybe Mr. Hyde has multiple personality disorder.
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I thought the exact same thing! I read the same article just for interest and noticed that these are clues giving it away. Jekyll and Hyde could be the exact same people. Of course one of them would be a fake person and one with the disorder but I can't figure out who. I really wonder who is who in this book. It can get vey confusing at times. :)
ReplyDeleteI agree withyou Hasitha! i thought that maybe since we found out that Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll's hand writing is kind of the same, that Dr. Jekyll could be Mr. Hyde and have multiple personality disorder. One minute he could be a doctor and the next be a killer and have a new name.. The story was interesting too because when Mr. Enfield watched the little girl get trampled over and left there, why didn't he help? Why did he not go over to help the poor little girl scared to death? i really wonder who is who and what is really going on. but maybe its a mystery for us to find out. ( :
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