How Conan Doyle presents Jonathan Small, and how the character develops across the text: the wooden-legged convict who drives the plot, a murderer and thief whose loyalty to his comrades and sense of being wronged complicate the villain.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'a poorly-educated man, small, active, with his right leg off', 'I was always a bit of a rover', 'again the thought of his treasure turned me hard and bitter', 'That is an oath that I can put my hand to my heart and swear that I have never broken', 'Small is a man of his word', 'It became an over-powering, absorbing passion with me', 'I cared nothing for the law—nothing for the gallows', 'It is my treasure, and if I can't have the loot I'll take darned good care that no one else does', 'how innocent I am of the death of his son'.
Villain or victim: his part in Achmet's murder and the guard's killing, against his loyalty to the Four and Sholto's betrayal of them.
