Critical thinking question: How does this text address the points of view of other groups, those who usually don’t get to tell their side?

            The book Sherlock Holmes, the Complete Novels and Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. They are solving many mysteries such as murder, theft, et cetera. One of the stories, “The Sign OF Four” is about the mystery of the theft of many millions of pounds worth of jewels and the murder of a brother.

All the stories are from the perspective of Sherlock Holmes, but this one is from the point of view of Watson. This detail gives you a whole new outlook on how to observe a crime scene, because Sherlock And Watson Think Very differently. Also you see lot of things through Watson’s eyes, which you couldn’t see through Sherlock’s eyes. For example, Sherlock is always over thinking things, and so he misses the obvious:

             “ ‘My lens discloses more than one mark of blood, especially towards the end of the rope, from which I gather that he slipped down with such velocity that he took the skin off his hands.’ I tried to explain this to Watson but he was too busy thinking a circle in the dust of a windowsill was a wooden legged man’s print.”

            As you can see, we discover things that we would have missed if it were from the perspective of Sherlock.  Another groups whose perspective we see are the suspects, and we get be in their perspective when they are being interrogated. For example: ‘ I walked into the room with Sherlock and Watson Flanking me. The gentlemen sat in front of me, and started to ejaculate many many questions that I was only half paying attention to. I was more concentrated on t=my surroundings, thee weird room. IT was extremely disorganized, and it appeared to be someone’s living quarters.”

 As you can see we are able to see the perspective of the suspects.

            In conclusion the author does a very good job of showing the perspective of groups whose point if view we usually don’t get by an entirely different person the narrator and also switching to the perspective at

A suspect when they are being interrogated.  This story is mystery and is a perfect example on how to give readers different perspective.