Plot Analysis of 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Schemes and Mind Maps of English Literature

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“The Adventure of the

Speckled Band”

A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

Plot Diagram

Exposition

• beginning of the story
• background information
• setting established
• characters introduced

Rising Action

• series of events
• suspense created

Climax

• biggest moment
• conflict is solved
• action is most intense
• towards end of story

Falling Action

• result of climax

Resolution

• ending
• loose ends tied up
• conflicts solved

Inciting Incident

• main conflict introduced

C h u n k 1

• narrator - friend of Sherlock
• Sherlock takes unusual cases only
• Roylott family lives in Stoke Moran in Surrey County
• Exposition: some background, some characters
• #whoisHolmes
• mood:

C h u n k 2

• narrator: Dr. Watson
  • Mrs. Hudson – landlady
  • Watson - admires watching Holmes work
  • Holmes’s first deduction: woman rode train & dog cart
  • Only payment: reimbursement
  • Helen Stoner – client
  • Roylott – her stepfather
  • Exposition – background & characters
  • Mood -

Chunk 4: middle of page 112 – page 116 Check your understanding.

**- Where are the bedrooms located? How are they laid out?

• What does Julia hear at night?
• What did the women do each night before going to bed?
• What did Helen hear?
• What are the details of Julia’s death?
• What does Helen think the speckled band is?
• Why did Helen move into Julia’s old room?
• What did Holmes notice on Helen’s wrist? What does it** mean?

C h u n k 4

• All rooms on ground floor, bedrooms open to

hallway, windows face lawn

• Julia hears whistle at night
• Helen hears scream, clanging metal, Julia

screams “Speckled Band”, points towards Dr.’s

rooms, dies

• Helen heard whistle in Julia’s room
• Dr. bruised Helen’s wrist.
• Exposition –characters and background

C h u n k 6

Highlight items in your notes that you think are clues to the mystery.

• Sherlock found will: £750 ($93, 076)
• Daughters- £250 @marriage ($31, 026)
• Watson brings gun
• Holmes mentions house repairs to stop

gossip

• Sherlock warns Helen - lock herself

away from Roylott.

• Plot:

C h u n k 7

Highlight items in your notes that you think are clues to the mystery.

• “repairs” forced H from bedroom
• Shutters impassible from outside
• Bell rope fake
• Ventilator opens to next room/ not outside
• Bowl of milk on safe
• Leash on bed corner
• S & W will sneak into H’s room
• Plot:

● climax

○ S yells and hits snake ○ long scream ● falling action ○ discovering Dr. R’s body ● resolution ○ take H to aunt’s house ○ inquiry into R’s death ○ S shares his deductive reasoning