Sherlock Holmes Adjectives

Attentive, aware, and intelligent are three adjectives to describe the main character and protagonist, Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Cardboard Box. Sherlock Holmes is a mastermind at solving mysteries with the help of his friend, Watson and the clues he sees and witnesses around him. He is very attentive to crime scenes, peoples' gestures, anyone's facial expressions and body language. He has an awareness of what is right and wrong, staged and unstaged, planned and unplanned, and the truth and a lie. In addition, he is intelligent because he can solve murder mysteries using deductive reasoning and back up his findings with facts and is always reading and researching to find answers with evidenciary support.

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in any novel that can read someone's train of thoughts through features is an amazing and interesting character to learn more about. When I read the third page it stated, " You do yourself an injustice. The features are given to man as the means by which he shall express his emotions." Sherlock Holmes is the main character who has the ability to do this with his best friend and crime solving partner, Watson to the real murderer in this story, Jim Browner. Furtermore, Sherlock Homes studies key evidence including the yellow box wrapped in brown paper tied with a type of sailing nautical knot to lead him in the direction of a sailor and also deducing his range of who the possible suspects and victims could be. His keen sense of noticing the picture of Miss. Cushing and her two sisters was also helpful in leading to the real murderer in the story.

The conflict in the story is trying to solve the mystery of the two ears that were sent to Ms. Cushing in a small yellow box wrapped in brown paper tied in a peculiar looking knot style. Sherlock Holmes starts his investigation on a blank slate and starts to collect pieces of evidence, jots down important notes, remembers key details from the places in Croydon, and then breaks down his reasoning with why it could be certain suspects and ruling out others. Moreover, he even shares other scenarios that could be likely and states how these other scenarios are not te answer to solve the mystery. He shares the reasons, motives, opportunities and how step by step the method to how the mystery would be solved. Sherlock Holmes was attentive to the fact that the ears were freshly cut. He was aware that the man or woman who did this was probably a sailor and not a landman. He was intelligent to know exactly where to go and who the victims and the original person who this box was intended for in the first place. All of these pieces of evidence support why Sherlock Holmes was the best and most interesting characters to write this analysis about.