The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE

THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE

Louis Stevenson

Retold by Brigit Viney

Robert

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The strange case of dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde: level 5: standfor graded readers / Robert Louis Steverson; retold by Brigit Viney –1. ed. – São Paulo : FTD, 2017.

ISBN: 978-85-96-01100-6 (aluno)

ISBN: 978-85-96-01101-3 (professor)

1. Inglês (Ensino fundamental) I. Viney, Brigit. II. Título.

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THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1850. Although he learned to read late, at the age of seven or eight, he wrote many stories as a boy, encouraged by his father. However, he was often sick, both when young and in later life. In 1873, he went to live in France, where he hoped the climate would be better for his health, and his first book, An Inland Voyage (1878) described a canoe journey through France and Belgium. His first really successful book was Treasure Island, followed by Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886). Stevenson was soon a rich man, but his health was still poor.

In 1887, he traveled with his family to the U.S., and then on to Hawaii and Samoa. He built a house on Samoa and lived there from 1890 until his death in 1894.

BEFORE READING

Look at the picture on the front of the book and read the back cover. Check the correct answers.

1. In the story the doctor…

a. often feels lonely.

b. has quite a lot of money. ü

c. has a healthy way of life.

d. has a house in the country.

2. In the story, Mr. Hyde…

a. lives in Dr. Jekyll’s house.

b. becomes a neighbor of Dr. Jekyll’s.

c. takes Dr. Jekyll away from London.

d. becomes a friend of Dr. Jekyll’s. ü

3. In the story…

a. Dr. Jekyll’s friends know a lot about Mr. Hyde and his family.

b. Dr. Jekyll thinks he will never meet Mr. Hyde.

c. Mr. Hyde often frightens the people that he meets. ü

d. Dr. Jekyll is not scared of Mr. Hyde.

Check the things that you think are in the story.

a thief

a child ü

a ghost

a murder ü

a beautiful woman

a gold watch ü

some bad decisions ü

a lawyer ü

a check from Dr. Jekyll ü

Mr. Hyde’s gun

a fight with Mr. Hyde danger ü

Chapter 1

The Story of the Door

Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man who never smiled, did not say very much, and rarely showed his feelings. He was thin, tall, and dry, but he was also lovable. At dinners with his friends, and when the wine was to his taste, something very human shone from his eyes, something which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke more often and loudly in his actions. He accepted others and helped them when they were in difficulty. He behaved in the same way to everyone – those who had acted well and those who had acted badly.

He had good friends – some were people he had met by chance, others were people in his family. One of his friends, who was also a cousin, was Mr. Richard Enfield. Mr. Enfield went to a lot of fashionable parties in London, and people could not understand why he and Utterson were friends, because Utterson never went to parties. But every Sunday, Utterson and Enfield went for a walk together, and it was the most enjoyable event of the week for both of them.

On one of these walks, their route took them down a small sidestreet in a busy part of London. The shops in this street were all doing well, it seemed, and the street was clean and bright.

On one side of the street, near a corner, the line of shops was broken by the entrance to a courtyard. Next to this entrance, the side of a large building came into the street. It had no windows, only a door to the street. Both the building and the door were very dirty.

Enfield and Utterson were walking on the other side of the street, and when they were opposite the entrance to the courtyard, Enfield lifted up his stick and pointed. “Have you ever noticed that door?” he asked.

“Yes,” Utterson replied.

“I have a very strange story about it,” Enfield said.

“Oh? What is that?” Utterson asked. His voice had changed a little.

“Well, I was walking through an empty part of town at about three o’clock one dark winter morning,” said Enfield, “when suddenly I saw two people: a small

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man and a girl of maybe eight or ten. The man was walking along one street, and the girl was running down another towards him. Well, naturally, they ran into one another at the corner, and then came the horrible part of the thing. The man trampled calmly over the child and left her lying on the ground. She screamed and screamed. It sounds like nothing, but it was terrible to see. I shouted and ran after him. I caught him and brought him back to the screaming child, who now had quite a lot of people around her. My prisoner was perfectly cool and did not try to escape, but he gave me an ugly look that terrified me. The people around the girl were her family, and soon a doctor arrived to look at her. Well, the child was more scared than hurt, and so you might think that that was the end of the story. But there was something strange: everyone there wanted to kill the man, even the the doctor.”

The

“Yes. Every time the doctor looked at him he looked sick and white, and I knew he wanted to kill him, as did I. Of course, we couldn’t kill him. Instead, we told him we would make a scandal out of this. We would give him a bad name from one end of London to the other, and he would lose everything. While we were talking to him, we were keeping the women off him as best we could. He was standing in the center of a circle of hateful faces. I could see that he was scared, but he was calm, too. ‘If you choose to tell everyone, I can’t stop you,’ he said. ‘How much do you want?’ Well, in the end, he agreed to pay the girl’s family a hundred pounds.”

“I see,” said Utterson. hundred “I

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“The next thing was to get the money, and where do you think he took us to get it?” asked Enfield. “To that place there, with the door! He took out a key, went in, and soon came back with ten pounds in gold and a check for the rest. The check was signed with a name I can’t tell you, but it’s very well known. I told the man that the whole thing looked unreal. A man does not go into a building at four in the morning and come out with another man’s check for nearly a hundred pounds!”

“No,” agreed Utterson.

“Well, my words did not worry him at all. ‘Put your mind at rest,’ he said. ‘I’ll stay with you until the morning and come with you to the bank.’ So, we – the man, the doctor, and the child’s father – all went to my rooms and spent the rest of the night there. In the morning after breakfast we went to the bank. I gave in the check and said I believed it was forged. But it was not.”

“Hmm. It’s a bad story,” said Utterson.

“The check was signed with a name I can’t tell you.”

The

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“It is,” said Enfield. “This small man was a really terrible man, and the person who wrote the check lives a good life. He is well known and is someone who does good. Blackmail, I suppose. An honest man is paying for something bad that he did when he was young. Although even that, you know, is far from explaining everything.” He was silent for a time.

“And you don’t know if the man who wrote the check lives there?” Utterson suddenly asked.

“It’s probable, isn’t it?” replied Enfield. “But I noticed his address. He lives in a square somewhere.”

“And you never asked about – the place with the door?” said Utterson.

“No, I didn’t,” replied Enfield. “I feel very strongly about asking questions. You ask a question and it’s like dropping a stone from the top of a hill. That stone hits other stones, and soon a quiet old man is knocked on the head in his own back garden and the family has to change their name. No, the stranger it looks, the less I ask.”

“That’s very wise,” said the lawyer.

“But I have studied the place,” continued Enfield. “It doesn’t seem to be a house. There is no other door, and the only person who goes in or out of that one is the small man of my adventure. He only uses it rarely. There are three windows on the second floor that look onto the courtyard. There are none below. The windows are always shut, but they’re clean. And there’s usually smoke coming from the chimney, so somebody must live there. The buildings are so close together around that courtyard that it’s hard to say where one house ends and another begins.”

The pair walked on again for a time in silence. Then Utterson spoke.

“It’s wise of you not to ask questions, but I want to ask about one thing. I want to ask the name of the man who trampled on the child.”

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“Well,” said Enfield. “I can’t see why I shouldn’t tell you. His name was Hyde.”

“Hmm,” said Utterson. “What does he look like?”

“He is not easy to describe. There is something very wrong about him, something horrible. I have never disliked a man so much, but I don’t know why. He must be deformed in some way, but I don’t know how. He looks unusual, but I can’t say exactly what is unusual about him.”

Utterson walked on in silence again. He was thinking hard.

“You are sure he used a key?” he asked at last. “My dear sir…” began Enfield, surprised.

“Yes, I know,” said Utterson. “I know it must seem strange. In fact, I know the name of the other gentleman. If any points in your story are wrong, you should correct them.”

“None of them is wrong,” replied Enfield. “Hyde had a key and he still has it. I saw him with it less than a week ago.”

Utterson said nothing and soon the younger man spoke again. “Here is another lesson to say nothing. I am ashamed of my long tongue. Let us agree never to speak of this again.”

“With all my heart,” said the lawyer. “I shake hands on that, Richard.”

The Story of the Door | Chapter 1

Mr. Utterson

Searches for Mr. Hyde

That evening Utterson went home with a heavy heart and ate his dinner without enjoyment. Usually, on a Sunday evening, he sat by the fire and read until midnight, but that night he did not. As soon as he had finished his dinner, he picked up a candle and went into his office. There he unlocked a drawer in his desk, took from it a document and sat down to study it. The document was Dr. Jekyll’s Will and it was written in Jekyll’s handwriting because Utterson had refused to help him make it.

The will said that if Henry Jekyll died, or disappeared for more than three months, everything he owned should immediately belong to “his friend Edward Hyde”. Utterson had never liked this document because it was so strange. He had disliked it, too, because he had known nothing about Mr. Hyde. Now he knew something about him, and he still disliked it. It was bad enough when the name was just a name, but now it was worse. He felt sure that the man was bad.

“I thought he was crazy,” he said as he put the document back in the drawer, “but now I’m beginning to think he is ashamed of something.”

He blew out the candle, put on a warm coat, and went out in the direction of Cavendish Square, where his friend, the great Dr. Lanyon, had his house and saw his patients. “If anybody knows about Hyde, it will be Lanyon,” Utterson thought.

A servant welcomed him and took him to the dining room, where Dr. Lanyon sat alone with his wine. He was a welldressed gentleman, with a red face and gray hair. When he saw Utterson, he jumped up from his chair and welcomed him with both hands. The two men had been friends at school and still liked each other very much.

After they had talked for a few minutes, the lawyer said, “I suppose, Lanyon, that you and I must be the two oldest friends that Henry Jekyll has?”

“I suppose we are,” said Lanyon. “Why? I don’t see him much now.”

“Really?” said Utterson. “I thought you were both interested in science.”

“We were,” replied Lanyon. “But more than ten years ago, he began to go wrong. He had some terrible ideas! They had nothing to do with science!” Lanyon’s face suddenly turned purple.

Utterson felt happier. “They have just had an argument about science,” he thought. And because he had no interest in science himself, he even added: “It is nothing worse than that!”

He gave his friend a few seconds to become calm again and then he asked, “Have you ever met one of his friends – a man called Hyde?”

“Hyde?” repeated Lanyon. “No. Never heard of him.”

The lawyer carried this information home with him. He lay on his large, dark bed, but his mind was too full of questions to let him sleep. At six in the morning he was still awake,

and thinking about Enfield’s story. In his mind, he saw the street, the small man, and the child. He saw the man trample on her and leave her lying on the ground. Or he saw a room in a rich house, where Henry Jekyll lay asleep, dreaming happily. Then the small man opened the door to the bedroom, woke him up, and told him to get up. Every time man, dreaming the up,

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Utterson fell asleep, he saw the small man walking through the city. At every street corner, he trampled on a child and left her screaming. In Utterson’s dreams, the man had no face. When he woke up, he felt that he had to see the real Mr. Hyde. If he could see him, he would feel better, and he might understand Jekyll’s will. And it would be a face worth seeing: a face which had made Enfield want to kill.

Mr. Utterson Searches for Mr. Hyde | Chapter 2

THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE

Dr. Jekyll has a comfortable life in London. He lives well and has many friends. But one day, a strange new person, Mr. Hyde becomes part of his life, visiting his home, and using his money. Mr. Hyde is a small man, he prefers to be out at night, and nobody knows where he comes from. Many people are afraid of him.

So why is Dr. Jekyll friends with Mr. Hyde? He says he can lose him whenever he wants to. But can he?

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