Antonio González.3ºB. Dr jekyll and mr hyde

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde A class project

Antonio Gonzรกlez Gallardo 3ยบB 16/2/2014

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Title: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Publishing House: Burlington Books.

Main Characters Dr Jekyll: He's a gentelman of about 60. He had a lot of friends and he was a good and very hard working person. He's a famous doctor and scientist that studied the different sides of a person's personality. He wanted to enjoy his evil side with different chemichal substances, but he didn't know, that his evil side was Mr Hyde. In one moment he turned into Mr Hyde and then into Jekyll again.He couldn't control these turnings and started suffering a lot because of his evil side. Finally his evil side was stronger.

Mr Hyde: He's a young man of about 40. He's an evil man that has something strange in his look that, when people saw him, they were feeling terror. A lot of people knew him because one day, he tried to attack a girl. He was dark, misterious and really frightening.

Mr Utterson: He's an old man of about the same age of Jekyll. He's Jekyll's lawyer , he's a good person and tries to help him when he needs. He and Poole investigated the case of his friend and discovered that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person.

Poole: He's an old man of about 70. He's Dr Jekyll's servant, he's a nice person and he's also a good friend of him. He is really worried about what is hapenning because he cared about his master. He helped Mr Utterson to discover Dr Jekyll's case.

Dr Lanyon: He's an old man of about 70. He's Dr Jekyll's friend but he dissagrees with his investigation. He's the first person that discovers that Dr Jekyll is Mr Hyde are the same person so he dies terrified.

Mr Enfield : He's another of Dr Jekyll's friends. He's a good person and tries to help Dr Jekyll with his investigation.

Summary Once upon a time there was a scientist called Dr Henry Jekyll. He was an gentleman and also a nice and generous person. He thougth that everybody has two different sides, a good side and a bad side. So he was ivestigating the different sides of a person throught chemicals and potions. He tasted different potions to have only one side, the good side. But his experiments weren't good. He stayed in his laboratory for a lot of weeks, so his servant Poole and his lawyer Mr Utterson investigated what was happening. When they called Dr Jekyll's at the door he said "No enter, I'm working". But it wasn't Dr Jekyll's voice, they thougth. It was a very different voice, very similar to Mr Hyde's voice. Everybody knew who Mr Hyde was, because one day, he tried to attack an inocent girl. So one week later they broke Dr Jekyll's door and they found Mr Hyde's body lying on the floor, dead. They thougth that Mr Hyde killed Dr Jekyll, but they found a letter by Dr Jekyll and he had written the letter that day! The letter said that Dr Jekyll tasted a potion, and thanks to this in one moment he was Dr Jekyll and in the other one he turned into Mr Hyde. The bad side of Dr Jekyll was Mr Hyde, so these two people are the same person!

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Personal Opinion: This book was very interesting for me because in the story, there's a lot of mistery. There's a lot of mistery because you don't know what was happening until the end of the story. When I was reading the book, we went to Badajoz to see how is the story in a play in the theatre. It was different in relation to the book, there were some characters who didn't appear in the book. But it was really fun and I had a good time. My favourite character is Dr Jekyll because he is a generous and a nice person. He only wanted to keep the good side of him, so he took different experiments but it wasn't good. He didn't know how was his bad side because he was always generous with people. At the end he discovered that his bad side is Mr Hyde and they are the same person. He admited that when he was Mr Hyde, he felt good and he didn't care to attack people. He felt better in his bad side (Mr Hyde) than in his good side (Dr Jekyll). It was for sure a fun book. I loved it!

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Vocabulary Word

Meaning

Sentence

Lawyer

Abogado

Dr Jekyll's lawyer was Mr Utterson.

courtyard

patio

There was a dark courtyard.

collided

chocaron

Two men collided at the corner.

apologise

disculparse

He didn't apologise to the girl.

signature

firma

It was signature.

blackmail

chantaje

They suspect that it was a blackmail.

will

testamento

Utterson read Dr Jekyll's will.

argue

discutir

They always argue scientist questions.

butler

mayordomo

Poole was Dr Jekyll's butler.

trust

confiar

Utterson didn't trust Mr Hyde.

inherit

heredar

Mr Hyde inherited Dr Jekyll's belongings.

cane

bast贸n

They found Mr Hyde's cane in the laboratory.

murderer

asesino

They were looking for the murderer.

advice

consejo

They thougth Dr Jekyll needed advice.

locked

cerrado con llave

The drawer was locked.

hatchet

hacha

Poole took a hatchet.

pains

dolores

Dr Jekyll felt terrible pains.

balance

equilibrio

He couldn't keep the balance in his personality.

Choice

elecci贸n

He didn't have any choice

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