devilandsherlock

Week 1:

A- Chris B- Jake C- Dan C D- Dan M

B- Jake Reporting, like detective work, is a process of elimination. It requires that you gather and probe innumerable versions of a story until, to borrow a phrase from Sherlock Holmes, “the one which remains must be the truth.” Page 1

Unlike the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, these tales are true. The protagonists are mortal: as with Dr. Watson, they can observe, but they don't necessarily see. Page 1

The police found no sign of forced entry and assumed that green had committed suicide. Yet there was no note, and Sir Colin Berry, the president of the British Academy of Forensic Science, testified to the coroner that, in his thirty year career, he had seen only one suicide by garroting. Page 11

To Edwards, Green's death was even more baffling than the crimes in a Holmes story. Page 21

On the night that Green died, he relieved with some embarrassment, he was walking through London with his wife on a group tour of Jack the Ripper's crime scenes. He said that he had learned only recently that Green had become fixated on him before his death, and he noted that some Sherlockians blurred the line between fandom and fanaticism. 25

C- 1. Do you think that Richard Green killed himself or that he was murdered by someone else ?

2. Since he was garroted, do you think that it was possible that he did it to himself? Or do you think that he would have passed out before he could have died from choking himself?

3. Do you think that Sherlock Holmes was symbolic to the death of Richard Green?

4. If Green did kill himself, what do you think that the American voice on the answering machine was?

5. When you found out at the end of this short story, were you surprised by it or did you see it coming?

Week 2:

A- Dan C B- Chris C- Dan M D- Jake

Chris- Quotes

1. "May 3, 2005, France, a man called an emergency hot line for missing and exploited children. he frantically explained that he was a tourist passing through Orthez, near the weatern Pyrenees, and that at the train station he had encountered a fifteen-year-old who was alone and terrified."

2."Gilbert wasn't naive -- she assumed that he was guilty."

3.""'This was my epiphany. I almost sent a man to die based on my theory."'

4." The man will be sent to jail, whether or not he commited the crime."

5. " Where did you go." "Went out for a little." " You scared us. STOP."

D- Jake

During our meeting on Friday we discussed what was happening in our book. Some things that we discussed were the intense and sophisticated vocabulary that was present. We also talked about the two short stories that we have read so far. Half way through our discussion we decided to try and get Snapple's for our group. We decided to pool our money together, and I volunteered to go get them. I asked the teacher if I could get them and when he approved I left to go get them. I seemed like a long walk and as soon as I was about to go get them, a teacher asked me for a pass and I didn't have one, so I had to turn back.

Week 3

A- Dan M B- Jake M C- Chris D D- Dan C

Chris Questions 1. Would you want your parents to think someone else is you? 2. Why do you think he dresses as other people or impersonates them? 3. Do you think he has mental problems due to the abuse he took as a child? 4. What is the mood of this short story? 5. Do you think he will be able to keep his cover or eventually get caught?

B- Jake “Are you sure it's him?” an officer asked. “No, but I have this strange feeling.”

At police headquarters, he admitted that he was Frederic Bourdin, and that in the past decade and a half he had invented scores of identities, in more than fifteen countries and languages.

For once, he seemed unmistakably an adult, with a faint five-o' clock shadow.

Bourdin often pretended to be an amnesaic, intentionally getting lost in the streets.

On June 13, 1992 after he had posed as more than a dozen fictional children, Bourdin turned eighteen, becoming a legal adult.

D- During this week’s meeting we talked about the short story, “ The Chameleon”. Chris’s questions turned into great conversations and we all contributed in the conversations. Dan M kept us on track with the conversation and we had a good discussion about the book. Also, we discussed about how the “Chameleon” can pull off being somebody who is 15 years younger than he is. Jake’s quotes pretty much summed up the entire story. These also led to great conversation about the book. We also talked about what we thought of the mood of the book was very suspenseful. It made us stop and think about what we think will happen next. We all agreed that the suspense made us keep reading.

Week 4 A-Dan M B-Jake C- Dan C D-Chris

C-
 * 1) Why do you think that the body was found in the river but the body also had a noose around the neck in “True Crime?”
 * 2) When you were first reading this story, did you think that it was just coincidence that the murder followed the book, or did you know it had something to do with it?
 * 3) Why do you think that Bala was so intent on finishing the book, “ De Liryk?”
 * 4) Why do you think that the fireman is not able to remember 9/11 even though he was in the building when it happened?
 * 5) Do you think that he tried to save the other people in the building or did he just try to save himself?

D- Chris Today's book club was exceptional. It wasn't the best because we couldn't really remember all the stories we read over the weekend for it was a while ago but we were able to pull it together and do it well. We were all able to contribute and have a good time, while staying on topic for the most part. This week may have been our most productive book club week yet and we look to improve next week!

Week 5 A- Dan C. B- Dan M also know as the big yellow one is the sun C- Chris D- Jake

B- Dan M. "I basically just read from the script," Ferro says. "This guy was believed to have murdered and assassinated all these people, and we released him into our society. It was outrageous" "Burns stood in the center of the gathering, surrounded by skeletal remains of three people, excavated from the edge of the sea in Raboteau in 1995" "I'm either going to be the president of Haiti," he said,"or I'm going to be killed." "Handcuff him!" people yelled from the crowd. "Tie him up! Cut his balls off!" "i told Shelton straight out, I'm a son of a general, and I inherited his honor and dignity, and that's why I'm here to ask what the rules of engagement are, because I don't understand them"

C- Chris Domville 1.Which one of the three stories were the best? 2. Where do you think his daughter went off to? 3. Do you think she would come back? 4. Where would have you hid the gun? (hypothetically) 5. How would you have solved the final case?