A Study in Scarlet

I know a lot of other people have already read this one/will read this one....

But just in case, it is the first short story written by Doyle that has Sherlock Holmes as a character.

So.... what can I say about it. Well, I wouldn't say its typical... ok maybe I will.

Here's the gist of it... Big, Strange and Twisted murder happens. Nobody understands it... really confusing. Not the police, nada.

Then Sherlock does his investigation... seemingly random and crazy.

Then He does crazy stuff and explains some, only some and not all of what he knows... So we see what others (like the police) have missed out on ... but we still don't understand it completely.... kinda like a tease i guess.

Then voila, the person is captured. And were still confused.... Then big explaination/reasoning and we're all like... Woah... so obvious!!! why did i think of that?



The hero always stays the same and with the same qualities, and he always, except for once, wins... so how can we possibly love these stories, time after time. Generation after generation??!!

Let's analyze the character of Sherlock Holmes himself, first... If you guys know anything else about him that I don't (which is a lot) feel free to tell me.
He's a student/adult though, and understands a lot about Chemistry, reaonsing, logic and etc. /analysis
Highly intelligent, but slightly conceited at the same time....-not conceited as arrongant though... just extremely confident in his ability, and occasionally the lack of it in others. It must be the fact that he always gets it right... he's never been wrong yet... - but is that really possible?!!! for a real person... yet again he isn't real.

Anyways, his observation/logic skills, which most will connect ot his intelligence, is much higher than ours. Truthfully though, how many people can guess like he did that Dr. Watson had just come from a war. Here's what he said "i knew you came from Afganistan (where the war was) [because] here is a gentleman of a medical type, but with the air of a military man. clearly an army doctor, then. He has just come from teh tropics, for his face is dark, and that is not the natural tint of his skin, for his wrists are fair. He has undergone hardship and sickness, as his haggard face says clearly. His left arm has been injured. He holds it in a stiff an dunnatural manner. Hwere in the tropics could an English army doctor have seen much hardship and got his arm wounded? Clearly in afghanistan.' the whole train of thought did not occupy a second."

Rediciolous right? How could he figure ALL that out, and so soon? Oh the reasoning skills involved. Yet, as soon as i read that.... i was like... hmm... well his dad could have been in the military, maybe that's why... or how do you know he was of the "medical type"? Or... maybe he just went for a vacation... or what if he wasn't affected too much by the war.....-I know, weak questions but still... there is a possibility for error, yet not once (or maybe there has been a few, but for the majority not often) is there an error in his judgement.

---Is this what attracts us? The fact that he is almost perfect in the areas of his expertise?!!!!!

What do you guys think? Opinions would be GREATLY appreciated.

I'll talk a bit more 'bout Scarlet letter next time i think..... it was interesting and actually, though i said pretty typical.... there was one part that was confusing/different.

--Winnie