The Clubfooted Grocer
In class we were looking at a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle the man who wrote the famous Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer born in 1859, died in 1930 aged 71. Arthur Conan Doyle was trained as a doctor but never succeeded in this profession. He found more money would come from writing. Aged thirty- two he forgot about being a doctor and became a writer. He wrote all sorts of books Historical, romance, and adventure, but the Sherlock Holmes stories are what made him famous.
In this essay I am going to examine the narrative and linguistic techniques Arthur Conan Doyle uses in "The Clubfooted Grocer" and the effect they have on the reader. The techniques I will focus on are characterisation, location and imagery, and the plot tension in the story.
"The Clubfooted Grocer" is based on the narrator and his Uncle, who has not excited to him and his mother for many years. Suddenly, out of no where, he sends a litter to ask for his nephew to go visit him up north. He gets on the train and meets his uncle's messenger at a different station to where his uncle lives. He doesn't know why he has to meet there and why he's gone up north. He arrives at the house and it is surrounded by sailors but also doesn't know why. The sailors attack the house and break in.
Arthur Conan Doyle uses techniques to make the story interesting and give it a little thrill.
In class we were looking at a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle the man who wrote the famous Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer born in 1859, died in 1930 aged 71. Arthur Conan Doyle was trained as a doctor but never succeeded in this profession. He found more money would come from writing. Aged thirty- two he forgot about being a doctor and became a writer. He wrote all sorts of books Historical, romance, and adventure, but the Sherlock Holmes stories are what made him famous.
In this essay I am going to examine the narrative and linguistic techniques Arthur Conan Doyle uses in "The Clubfooted Grocer" and the effect they have on the reader. The techniques I will focus on are characterisation, location and imagery, and the plot tension in the story.
"The Clubfooted Grocer" is based on the narrator and his Uncle, who has not excited to him and his mother for many years. Suddenly, out of no where, he sends a litter to ask for his nephew to go visit him up north. He gets on the train and meets his uncle's messenger at a different station to where his uncle lives. He doesn't know why he has to meet there and why he's gone up north. He arrives at the house and it is surrounded by sailors but also doesn't know why. The sailors attack the house and break in.
Arthur Conan Doyle uses techniques to make the story interesting and give it a little thrill.
