I was very surprised that I had no idea what the book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson was about. Well, of course, I knew it was about a doctor who had his good persona and bad persona. But how the book itself was written was a great surprise. I assumed that it would be from the point of view as Jekyll - Him battling his naughty side, documenting the awful deeds of Hyde (I imagined he was a bit of a Jack the Ripper type). But it was nothing like that. Instead it was from the view of Dr. Jekyll's lawyer who feels that something is amiss, but doesn't really know what until the very end when he reads Dr. Jekyll's written confession after his death. There really wasn't much about the goings on of Jekyll and Hyde at all (which, I must say, I would have preferred)!
- Megan Leigh
2 comments:
was it good? worth reading? would elliot enjoy it?
I think it would be boring for him! There is some mystery involved so it's possible he'd like it... but there's no action!
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