Sunday, December 5, 2010

"Story of the Door" Reaction

One memorable moment from the chapter "Story of the Door" was when Mr. Utterson was out on a walk when he had seen a man trample over a little girl calmly. This moment made me think about the little girl and why she was outside at two am. as well as why that man would be so disrespectful. It might have been different if he had apologised to the little girl and helped her instead of just walking on. This went against how people were treated and how respect was important in the Victorian era. I could connect this part of the book to the article "Multiple Personality Disorder" because at one point it had said that "...produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity." this showed that at that time, the man, who now is known as Mr. Hyde, did not know what he was doing and wasn't himself because if he was, i doubt that he would have trampled over a little girl. The theme i came across in this chapter was how evil goes against good. I think this because Mr. Hyde who had hurt the girl, represented evil and Mr. Utterson who had brought Mr. Hyde back to apologise and pay for the girl's injuries represents good. This contributes to my explanation of good and evil because even though Mr. Hyde had done wrong to that girl, Mr. Utterson invited Mr. Hyde over for some breakfast before they had gone to give in the cheque and that's how respectful Mr. Utterson was.

1 comment:

  1. hello there vishua . :] . it was three am when they were outside not 2:] go to page three and 4thh paragraph it states " i was coming home from some place at the end of the world,about 3 o'clock of a black wintermorning. i dontt really think that mr. hyde was disrespectful because on page four paragraph 1 mr enfeild sed "he was perfectly cool and made no resistence" that means he didnt give mr . einfield a hard time . the book didnt say if he did it on purpose or not but if he qave no hard time to einfield when einfield brought him back then maybe stevonson wants us to think that he didnt do it on purpose . its like if someone qehts stopped by the cop and the person knows they did nothing wrong they will pull over but if the person know he did something wrong he will go 120 mph and try to escape from the cop. i do like how you provided good examples of what you thought and back it up with info. keep up the good work . incase if this little comment doesnt show my name for mrs.fleming , my name is irving.

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