Sherlock Holmes and Steroids. Oh, and the author was on drugs.

Ah, Sherlock Holmes. You don't know what he is (if you do, pretend please) but a simple detective, am I correct?

Well, WRONG.

Sherlock Holmes is a detective, which is rather obvious, but he is a man of justice - as I read, his quotes overflow with such action, power, and intelligence; much so like a man of reform. I refer to him as the new Barack Obama (no offense intended).

I still do NOT clearly understand this difficult book, as I have to re-read a couple of times, but it is almost impossible for me to stop reading at the same time. It's like how you take steroids and drugs and alcohol and a cigar. You want more. You want it. Now you want it, don't you?

Moving on. There are many indirect social issues, and some that are so obvious and some that...you probably never seen yet. In this book, the main 'issue' is crime, or the whole story relates to crime. In these crimes are the involvement of social issues. But there are other times whence there are other ideals in a chapter that lead to a social issue.

In "A Study in Scarlet", a man named John Ferrier becomes a part of the bundle of Mormons going towards Salt Lake City because of discrimination against their religious views. Mormons were known to be a disgrace in the religious New England communities (much like Quakers back in their era) mostly because a part of their religion is for men to have multiple wives. As for that, they were often kicked out of neighborhoods or treated badly. This is a large part of an issue for the chapter because it is very discriminative. Lucy, Ferrier's daughter, cannot marry a non-Mormon, who was a man named Hope. The whole chapter described Hope trying to meet Lucy numerous amounts of times, and in the end, Lucy dies. Hope could not even go to her funeral.

Discrimination gave roles in the chapter, and it also became stereotypical as to when people think all Mormons are just naive people that carry lots of wives. Gender roles also came in play, since men carry that many wives around with them and women usually have no gain. Pretty harsh, ain't it.