The case for the defence
Riassunto e analisi
The
case for the defence deals with a murder to Mrs Parker by Mr Adams. He was a
heavy stout man with bulging bloodshot eyes. Mr Adams was in Northwood street
and the weapon was a hammer, which the woman was found battered to death. There
were four murder's witnesses: Mrs Salmon, Henry McDougall, Mr Wheeler and another.
Mrs Salmon was the most sure and reliable witness. At the murder trial she said
that at two of morning, in 15
Northwood street, she had
been unable to sleep because she heard a door click shut. She went to the
window and she saw Adams on the steps of Mrs
Parker's house and he had a hammer. She was very determined but when the
counsel asked her to show the murder, she saw two Adams,
because there was Mr Adams twin. She wasn't prepared to swear that it was the
prisoner she had seen. After the murder trial, one of the twins got pushed on
to the road right I n front of a bus. His skull smashed just as Mrs Parker's
had been.
The
kind of narrator is the first person narrator and he was the juryman. The
settings are 15 Northwood street, murder trial's place
and Laurel Avenue
(when another witness saw Adams). The most
important characters are Mr Adams, Mrs Salmon and Mrs Parker.
The
secondary characters are Henry McDougall, Mr Wheeler and another witness. The
climax and the turning point of the story were when Mrs Salmon saw Adams with his twin at the murder trial. There was a lot
of suspense. The story is what the author has in mind, but in this story there
is also the plot, because the narrator immediately said that it happens a murder. This is a crime story because we know the
murderer from the beginning.
