Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde A class project
Sofía Becerra 2ºC/D IES Cristo del Rosario-Zafra (Badajoz) 12/03/14
INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOK: TITLE: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. AUTHOR: Robert Louis Stevenson. PUBLISHING HOUSE: Macmillan readers. CHARACTERS: -Dr Henry Jekyll: He is an English man, friend of his friends and a excellent scientist who can do everything with quimical things. -Mr Utterson: He is a lawyer, he is 55 years old and he is a tall, thin man. He is very elegant and his hair is silver. _Mr Edward Hyde: this character is created by the Dr Henry Jekyll. He is so bad and very ugly. -Mr Layon: This is a very good friend of Dr Jekyll. He is the first to know the true of Henry Jekyll. -Poole: He is the servant of Henry Jekyll. -Mr Maw: the chemist. -Mud Doyle: Another servant of Henry Jekyll.
SUMARY: We are in London. Mr Utterson is a very famous London lawyer that has heard a history of his friend, Dr. Jekyll Then Utterson start an investigation to know the true identity of Mr Hyde. His friend, Dr Jekyll is obsessed with separating the two personalities of the same person, the good part and the bad part. This creates a very bad potion, because he was scientist, and then, he drinks it and he becomes Hyde, a very bad man who only wants to do the worst things. Utterson starts to find different clues and for this, he discovers that his friend is the famous Hyde, who everyone is finding him, but as he is a horrible monster, they hate themselves! he is uncontrollable and nobody else is able to stop him. The proportions of the potion were ending so they die.
PERSONAL OPINION: I think that this book is interesting but I would like read it with everyone at class. I think is better, but It is interesting and is good for our age. And I also think that people have a good and a bad part and It’s better to know them. In general, the book is good, but I like another type of books.
VOCABULARY: Word: Signature. Meaning: Firma.
Sentence: My father writes his signature in all his documents. Word: Successful. Meaning: Exitoso. Sentence: She will be very successful working as a model. Word: handwriting. Meaning: escritura. Sentence: My grandfather will do his handwriting for me. Word: Narrow. Meaning: Estrecho. Sentence: In that river, there is only a little bit of water, because is so narrow. Word: Footsteps. Meaning: Pasos. Sentence: I heard a lot of footsteps when I was in my bed last night. Word: Courtyard. Meaning: Patio. Sentence: I have got a very big courtyard whit a lot of types of plants. Word: Disagreement Meaning: Desacuerdo Sentence: I was in disagreement with my father because he told me a thing that wasn’t true