Jack the ripper
By Carla Ballester, Daniel Bags i Alba Garcia
In real life
- Jack the Ripper is a nickname for an unidentified serial killer
- Whitechapel district, at 1888
- He ripped off his victims, that were female prostitutes.
Topic
Murders
"Whitechapel murders": Eleven murders, fom 1888 to 1891. Five of them, known as the "canonical five" are believed to be the work of Jack the Ripper.
Canonical five victims:
- Mary Ann Nichols.
- Annie Chapman.
- Elizabeth Stride.
- Catherine Eddowes.
- Mary Jane Kelly.
Public opinion:
Public opinion
- Robert Donston Stephenson
In the book
- Jack kills poor women at Whitechapel with a knife.
Page 9, fourth paragraph
- He is a very intelligent man and he kills because it amuses him and because he wants a battle with Holmes.
Page 9, fourth paragraph. Page 18, last phrase. Page 19, first paragraph.
Who is really
Jack the Ripper?
- At first the reader may think is Moriarty, but later the book reveals that Jack the Ripper is nobody but Sherlock Holmes.
Page 18, second paragraph. Page 31, second paragraph.
- “Then I recognized the body as the woman who I had seen drinking and talking with Sherlock Holmes. He was still with her but he was not dead. He had a knife in his hand and he was cutting up her face and her body. As he cut the woman to pieces, he was singing.”
Page 31, second paragraph.
Holmes behaviour
- Sherlock Holmes became a detective in 1877. Soon he began to find the work easy. Ten years later he was famous, but unhappy and bored.
- He just needed an interesting case, but he couldn't find anyone, so he started doing cocaine
- He murders all that women and blames Moriaty
Page 8, first paragraph.
Who is Moriaty?
- Holmes calls Moriarty the evil part of himself
- He “kills” Moriarty, gets rid of that bad part of him, but later it returns.
- That’s why Watson tries to kill him, but he can’t and Holmes finally kills himself.
“ ‘Never fear old fellow,’ he said. ‘I shall not let him hurt you’. Then he stepped backwards off the path. I saw his body hit the rocks far blow”
Page 52, last paragraph.
Personal opinion
- Subject
- Book
- Holmes behaviour
Personal opinion