Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde A class Project
Lucía García Vázquez. 3ºB. IES Cristo del Rosario – Zafra (Badajoz) 14/03/2014
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Author: By Robert Louis Stevenson. Publishing House: Burlington Books.
Characters Henry Jekyll: Is a doctor of medicine, is great friend of Utterson and Lanyon. Think through an experiment you can separate the good and evil of people and really got it. It's intelligent, rich, very educated, respectful with people, tall, big chin, thin and about 50 years old. Edward Hyde: Is the part or evil personality of Dr Jekyll. Is a strange man. He’s short and he’s got dark hair. He’s detestable and something evil about him. Sometime he wears a hat a cane. Mr Utterson: Is quiet, a serious lawyer and old friend of Dr. Jekyll and Lanyon. He's tall, thin, with mustached and hair brown and has many wrinkles on the face. Dr Lanyon: Is a doctor and friend of Dr Jekyll and Mr Utterson. It is very educated and nice person. He is short, fat and with white hair. Richard Enfield: Is the cousin of Mr. Utterson. Accompanies it on trips around the city. He is tall, with brown hair and chin and a good person. Poole: Is a servant of Dr Jekyll. Is very educated and cares for his master. He is old, balding, fat, with glasses and has wrinkles on the face. In general all are of a high social class and are most involved in an issue, unless the secondary characters as Mr Enfield and Poole, which are known to the principal characters and are humble people.
Summary This story starts in one of the many walks that made the lawyer Mr. Utterson and Enfield. Walked through an alley in London, when a floor caught their attention. It isn’t windows and balconies. As he looked at the door downstairs. Mr. Enfield began to explain a strange event happened before there. He explained that a man and a girl he crossed in front and the man began to trample the girl, after leaving her lying on the floor. So Mr. Enfield ran to catch the man and took him and the girl. There had come a doctor and the family, forcing the man to pay £ 100 damages. Then the man came into the floor, took the money and handed it to the family. When his friend finished telling the story, Mr. Utterson went to his house and when he got there took the will of Mr. Jekyll and read it. It put that left everything to Mr. Hyde. As Utterson not know who this Mr. Hyde, went home to ask Lanyon. He probably would know since he saw Jekyll and often. But neither knew anything about this Mr. Hyde. That night I could not sleep. All the while I saw a faceless man hit a girl. Since that night, Mr. Utterson often passed down the street from that apartment. I wanted to see the man it belonged to that floor. Finally one day, he saw a small man entered the house. Utterson ran to the man and asked if he was Mr. Hyde, and it was. So Mr. Utterson walked to Jekyll's house. He opened his servant but wasn’t Jekyll. So Utterson went. After a few days, made a dinner Jekyll and Mr. Utterson friends were invited. He stayed until everyone left. Then told everything Jekyll and Mr. Hyde commented that he leaves it all to him, it was crazy. But Mr. Jekyll didn’t care what he said the lawyer. He had clear ideas and didn’t want to talk about it. And they did but only for a year, because after this time, a horrible thing happened on Mr. Hyde. This, he had found an old street and hit him to death. The old man had a letter to Mr. Utterson and the police took her to his house. Utterson wanted to go to see the body to see if he recognized. It was the scene of the crime and recognized him. Andrew Danvers was a client of his. The only witness said the attacker was a short, mean looking man. Utterson immediately thought of Mr. Hyde. He was the suspect, so Utterson accompanied the police to his house. When they arrived there, they found only the keeper to let them in without problems. They searched the house and found only the stick with which Hyde had killed the man and some other things.
This day, Utterson was Jekyll's house and told him what happened. Jekyll told him to be quiet because Hyde not reappears. He said he had received a letter from him to put it to be quiet he had to escape methods. He also said he had been hand-delivered without seal. Utterson stuck it out and asked the servant how was the person who had given him the letter and he said that nothing had come out of the mail. Mr. Utterson was very intrigued with this. Mr. Utterson summoned Mr. Guest, who knew of letters and spelling. He showed the letter to Mr. Hyde and then grabbed a Guest Mr. Jekyll and compared. The letters were very similar. Only differed in the slope of the letter. Then Mr. Utterson was even more intrigued with all this mystery. All were questions with no answer. Days passed and they Utterson was to have dinner at Lanyon. He was pale and thinner than usual. They talked for a while and after supper Lanyon gave him an envelope with a letter. It read: "shall not be opened until the death or disappearance of Dr. Henry Jekyll." Utterson not understand anything. One of the following Sunday, Utterson gave one of his walks with Mr. Enfield, past the house of Mr. Jekyll. He was looking out a window. Utterson and Enfield greeted him and invited him to be a walk with them, but told them not to, they could speak from the window. But the moment in which it is said, his face changed vastly. Immediately shut the window Jekyll and Utterson and Enfield were silent and frightened by what they had just seen. In one of the following nights, the servant went to visit Mr. Utterson. He said that at home I passed very strange things. His master did not come out for some time in his office and that his voice was not always. Now I had a rough voice. Utterson and the servant talked for a while until you reach one conclusion: someone had killed Dr. Jekyll. And as the servant, that someone could be nothing more and nothing less than Mr. Hyde. Utterson decided to accompany the servant to Jekyll's house to see the situation. Once there, they pulled the office door of Dr. Jekyll, and there it was, Edward Hyde, in the middle of the room. He had possibly committed suicide after murdering Dr. Jekyll. Utterson and Poole searched the house on all sides hoping to find the body of Jekyll, but not found. All I found was a letter addressed to Mr. Utterson Jekyll. In putting this before reading that I had to read the letter you should have delivered Lanyon some time. Utterson told the servant to go to his house and, after having read the letters lighter, again to call the police. Utterson went home, quickly caught Lanyon's letter and read it. In this there was a very rare thing. Jekyll in Lanyon asked, with a blacksmith, were home. Forced entry to his office and in the glass cabinet had to get a drawer. It had to take
home, and wait for a man to come at midnight, on his part, and had to give the drawer. After reading this letter, Lanyon, did what he said. He picked up the box, took it home and then a horrible thing happened. The man who had come from Jekyll, he grabbed the drawer, and pulled out of the small boat with a substance. Drank and became Dr. Jekyll. Miraculously I was changing the face and body became taller and thinner and there was a moment where I had been a short, evil-faced man, Dr. Jekyll appeared in the flesh. Utterson couldn’t believe it and did not understand. Then he began to read the letter from Jekyll. He explained that from a young age I had thought that the good and evil of people could separate and after making many experiments, succeeded in making the formula to separate the evil from the good part of a person. So he decided to try it. He took it and changed completely. Now he was short and very evil. He went out and a girl stuck at which it was found. He decided not to be Mr. Hyde. But the next morning he woke up being Mr. Hyde, was lying still when Dr. Jekyll. This worried him about it and had to take some kind of drug. Each time, the evil personality of Jekyll grew stronger, until he came to kill a person. But it was wrong. The drug to be Dr. Jekyll, and not working as well as ever. Now I had to take it every six hours or become Mr. Hyde. Gradually the drug ended and Mr. Hyde could not become Dr. Jekyll. Then he decided to commit suicide, he found the only solution possible. Thus ends the life of Mr. Henry Jekyll and Hyde. Explicaba que desde muy joven había pensado que el bien y el mal de las personas se podían separar y tras hacer muchos experimentos, consiguió hacer la fórmula para separar la parte maligna de la parte buena de una persona. Así que decidió probarla. Se la tomó y cambió completamente. Ahora era bajito y muy malvado. Salió a la calle y se encontró a una niña a la cual pegó. Entonces decidió no volver a ser Mr. Hyde. Pero a la mañana siguiente se despertó siendo Mr. Hyde, cuándo se había acostado siendo el doctor Jekyll. Esto le preocupó, y para remediarlo tuvo que tomar una especie de droga. Cada vez, la personalidad maligna de Jekyll se fue haciendo más fuerte, hasta que llegó a matar a una persona. Pero la cosa no iba bien. La droga para poder ser el doctor Jekyll, ya no funcionaba tan bien como al principio. Ahora tenía que tomársela cada seis horas o se convertiría en Mr. Hyde. Poco a poco esa droga se acababa y Mr. Hyde ya no podía convertirse en el doctor Jekyll. Entonces tomó la decisión de suicidarse, la única solución que encontró posible. De esta manera termina la vida de Mr. Hyde y de Henry Jekyll.
Personal Opinion We could say that this book didn’t like me much. For starters, it is difficult to understand and the vocabulary that characters too. I also found it boring and in occasions not very entertaining. Besides all this, I find that the book is very well written and has some intriguing parts. I have learned a lot of vocabulary and know things before or didn’t understand or simply never used. I like this because sometimes I get expressions that sound great. Another thing is the topic of the speaker: good and evil, I find it original and different and it's also a bit like people really are. We all have a bad side and a good but not as exaggerated as in the book.
Vocabulary Word
Meaning
Sentences
Frightening
Asustada
My sister is frightening to wach a scary movie.
Collided
Se chocaron
Two cars collided in the middle of a street.
Didn’t apologise
No pidió disculpas
This man didn’t apologise for dropping a glass another man.
Blackmail
Chantaje
Thieves blackmail a man.
Address
Dirección
The address of my street is La Fuente nº 6.
It was wrong
No debí
I shouldn’t spit on the floor.
Still
Todavía
Still it isn’t night.
Will
Testamento
My grandfather let will before die.
Drawer
Cajón
My closet has many drawers.
Argue
Discutimos
Laura and I argue.
Lying
Mentir
This women lying in the exam.
Trust
Confía
The teacher trusts us.
Be in trouble
Estar en un apuro
Wounded man was in trouble.
Harm
Hacer daño
The child harm was done with the
table. Inherit
Heredar
My mother inherits money.
Get rid of
Deshacerme de
That girl got rid of old clothes.
Sighed
Suspiró
He sighed after learning that it wasn’t a surprise exam.
Swing
Moverse
I saw swing basketball players.
In a mess
Desorden
She saw in a mess your room.
Ashes
Cenizas
The ashes to burial were thrown to Castellar.
Fireplace
Chimenea
The fireplace in my house is on a corner of the room.
Searched
Registraron
They were searched on the internet webpage.
Chequebook
Talonario de cheques
My coach has the chequebook to give receipts.
Trial
Jucio
The trial of John was canceled.
Postmark
Matesellos
The priest of my town put postmark pilgrims who pass through here.
Tightly
Fuertemente
He was beaten tightly by drinking alcohol.
Advise
Consejo
The teacher gave us advice about how to study.
Head clerk
Jefe empleado
To the boss head clerk the foods to the shelves.
Locked
Cerró con llave
The man locked the door.
Fear
Temor
I was fear after seeing that movie.
Sudden
Repentino
The air came a sudden moment.
Shouts
Gritos
I hear shouts in the house.
Despite
A pesar de
Despite the disease may follow later.
Hatchet
Hacha
My grandfather has a hatchet in the country.
Footsteps
Pisadas
Footsteps of animals seen in the land.
Rusty
Oxidada
The key was rusty.
Balance
Equilibrio
The swing is in balansce.
Pains
Dolores
Yesterday had headaches.
Choice
Elecci贸n
People made the choice for the government.
Hardly
Apenas
I hardly just study for the test.
Concern
Afecta
That sentence will much concern.