UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL

CALLAO
FACULTAD DE INGENIERIA ELÉCTRICA Y ELECTRÓNICA

THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE

WEEKLY READING REPORT Nº 3:

Course : English III

Teacher : Rosaura Camones, Estela

Name : Code:

Crespin Ramos Miguel Angel 1513120372

II. ABOUT THE WEEKLY READING COMPREHENSION
2.1. INTRODUCTION OF THE READING
In this third part of the story begins when Dr. Jekill's butler Poole looks for the lawyer
Mr. Utterson to accompany him since he was very strange with Dr. Jekill and he
feared the worst.

2.2. CHAPTERS OR PAGES READ DURING THIS WEEK

Chapters:
❖ The last night
❖ Dr. Lanyon’s narrative
❖ Henry Jekyll’s full statement of the case

2.3. SUMMARY OF THE READING

The last night

One night Jekyll's butler, Poole, went to see Utterson. He commented that
something was wrong with the doctor, that he was very afraid and that he shoul d
help him. The two of them went home. They tried to talk to him but, apart from not
letting them in, he had a very strange voice. Poole told him that the doctor was
passing him notes under the door asking for products and complaining that the ones
he had brought him were not cigars. Utterson asks the butler for one of those notes.
The note asked for a sample of the substance that was last sold to him, before the
trouble started.
The two men began to discuss possibilities until they agreed on one thing: the man
behind the door is Hyde.
He is about to enter well armed and discover who is behind. The two men then
warned staff to wait at the back door in case that individual tried to escape. They
went to the lab and broke down the door. Inside, Hyde's body lay dead.
On the table was an envelope and inside it three more. One was the same will that
the lawyer kept, just one thing, changing the heir for Utterson. There was also a
note telling him to read the note Lanyon had given him and another envelope that
he kept it for him. Utterson went home to examine the documents.
Dr. Lanyon’s narrative
Mr. Utterson reads a letter that Jekyll sends to Lanyon asking him to fetch some
products from the laboratory and deliver them to a person who will pick them up.
That person turned out to be Hyde. He was very nervous and impatient. Lanyon
handed over the products and Hyde began mixing them. When the mixture was
done, he directed a question to the other: "Do you prefer to let me go and not know
anything about this or the weight of curiosity does not let you do it?" Lanyon replied
that he had not done all that in order not to know the ending. So Hyde drank the
mixture and after a while of painful movements that person became Henry Jekyll.

Henry Jekyll’s full statement of the case

Jekyll was thinking about his split personality and discovered that all humans
have two personalities. A good and a bad. He felt he had to separate them to
break the chains they held on each other.
 He invented a formula that transformed him into another person, separating the
good half from the bad and keeping the latter. Hyde was short, ugly, misshapen,
younger, and much more agile than Dr. Jeckyll.
Henry felt the need to check if this change was temporary or permanent, so he
went back to the formula. He became himself again. Thus was born Hyde. Jekyll
rented a house for his second personality. He warned his servants that Hyde
would have absolute power in his house and even visited his house as Hyde.
Jekyll was amazed at Hyde's wickedness and had to open a savings account in
his name and invent a signature as Hyde once had to pay a check to a family
by the name of Henry Jekyll.
One day he woke up in his room having gone to bed like Jekyll but in the morning
it was not him but Hyde. This scared him very much.
Jekyll discovered that Hyde had killed a respected person and that he should
not remove him from his body again. With all his might he tried but suddenly,
while he was in a park, he began to notice that feeling he had when he drank
the potion. He had become Hyde without any help. He could not go to the
laboratory for the products to return to his person since the police were looking
for him so he went to a hotel. He sent a letter to Lanyon asking him to pick up
the products at his house and they met at midnight. He took the formula and
returned home.
With each passing moment, he found it harder to maintain Jekyll's appearance.
Whenever he fell asleep he woke up in the Hyde form.
The supply of salts necessary for the preparation of the mixture was almost
exhausted. He made several orders but it turns out that the first order he had
made was impure and that was precisely what allowed the transformation, the
following orders for salts did not have the necessary substance to make the
formula effective. He closes this confession by warning of his suicide and at the
same time the murder of Hyde.

2.4. NEW VOCABULARY LEARNED

❖ Solemne = solemn
❖ Iluminado = Illuminated
❖ Quejumbrosa = Complaining
❖ Triunfo = Triumph
❖ Mayordomo = Butler
❖ Gabinete = Cabinet
❖ Palidez = Paleness
❖ Antifaz = Mask
❖ Naturalmente = Naturally
❖ absoluta = absolute

2.5. EXAMPLES OF GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE FOUND IN THE

READING
❖ There was a third enclosure?
❖ The lawyer put it in his pocket.
❖ This drawer I beg of you to carry back with you to Cavendish Square
exactly as it stands.
 ❖ Here I proceeded to examine its contents.
❖ Are you come from Dr. Jekyll?”
❖ He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp.
❖ I rose from my place with something of an effort and gave him what he
asked.
❖ Have you a graduated glass?
❖ You forget that I have not yet the pleasure of your acquaintance. Be
seated, if you please.
❖ I thought my visitor started and made greater haste.

2.6. CHARACTERS
❖ Mr Utterson
❖ Dr Jeckyll
❖ Dr Lanyon
❖ Mr Hyde
❖ Poole
❖ Harry
❖ Bradwshaw
❖ Maw

2.7. MESSAGE OR REFLEXIONS OF THE LITERARY WORK

In this part of the story it is revealed by the letters what Dr. Lanyon and Dr. Jekyll
had to go through. The mystery of the dark things that Dr. Jekyll had is
discovered, the reason for his attitude that he had to get away from everyone,
how strange he got.