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3.Who gave Rachel the Moonstone? 4.Why did he give it to her? Rachel’s uncle . Because he wanted to revenge her mother for not speaking to him by passing on the Moonstone’s bad luck to Rachel. Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle(阿瑟·柯南·道尔) Do you like reading novels? A question: Wilkie Collins:? Wilkie Collins was born into an artist’s family in 1842 and died in 1889.?In his lifetime, he wrote 25 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and more than 100 non-fiction pieces. Wilkie Collins was a close friend of Charles Dickens. His novel The Moonstone is considered as the first detective story in the history of England.? The Moonstone By Wilkie Collins Main ideas of the four parts part4( Para.10) part Main idea Part 1 (para1) The Moonstone, stolen from India, was to be left to Rachel as an act of revenge. Part 2(para2-5) From the moment Rachel fastened the diamond to her dress, strange things began to happen. The diamond then was gone. Part 3(para6-9) Sergeant Cuff suspected many people for different reasons. Sergeant Cuff has one vital clue: a smear in the wet paint on the door of Rachel’s sitting room. Careful Reading Part 1 1.Where and when was the story set in? 2.When did the story really begin? 3.Who gave Rachel the Moonstone? 4.Why did he give it to her? The novel The Moonstone is set in England in 1848, but the story really began 50 years earlier. The Moonstone is a huge yellow diamond that was once part of a statue of the moon god in India. An Englishman murdered three holy men, stole the diamond from the temple and brought it back with him to London. When his sister heard about this, she would not speak to him any more. The diamond was cursed and the man lived a sad, lonely life without friends or family. When he died he left the Moonstone to his sisters daughter, Rachel, in an act of revenge, passing on his bad fortune to her. Rachel would receive the Moonstone as a present on the reception for her eighteenth birthday. Th