Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on September 15, 1890 in Torquay, England, U.K., as the youngest of three children. Christie wrote six romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is known for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections she wrote. She is the best-selling author coming only third to Shakespeare and the Bible. Christie described her childhood as very happy, and was surrounded by strong and independent women from an early age. She was raised in a household with various beliefs, and also believed that their mother was a psychic. Her parents believed that she should be homeschooled ;they taught her how to read and write, and to do basic arithmetic. They also taught her how to play both the piano and the mandolin. Her father was often ill and eventually he passed away in November of 1901. At this time Christie said her childhood was now over only being eleven years old. She met her fiancé Archie, in London during his leave at the end of 1914, and they married on the afternoon of Christmas Eve. Agatha Christie died on January 12, 1976, at the age of 85 from natural causes in her Winterbrook House.
The story begins with Hercule Poirot, a detective, boards the Orient Express train. He is unable to sit in first class because it is full. In the morning, Poirot woke up to a cry that he thought nothing of until the next morning. The conductor informed everyone that the train is stuck in a snow bank. The next morning, the train still stopped, the conductor informs Poirot that Ratchett has been murdered and the murderer is still on the train. Poirot checks every passenger's luggage. During the luggage check he notices a list of things: a label on Countess Andrenyi's luggage is wet, a Wagon Lit uniform...
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...on writer so it is hard to tell what she wanted to accomplish in her novels. The main idea that she wanted to propose is the fact that Ratchett's death was just or unjust and leaves it up to the reader to decide. Christie does an amazing job guiding the reader through all of the evidence but is still able to reveal a plot twist near the end of the novel. She leaves the reader to try to discover the murderer by giving them enough hints and clues but not completely giving it away by giving them too much. Agatha Christie is an excellent author because she is able to propose a question and moral in a subtle manner.
Works Cited
Christie, Agatha. The Murder on the Orient Express. London, Paris: Harper Publishings, 1933. Kindle file.
SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on Murder on the Orient Express.” SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. n.d.. Web. 5 Mar. 2014.
Philosophy – a subject that had driven people insane for as long as humans know their history. All the time people try to find a meaning, and later controvert it. For example, critics view a novel by Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, as a quest for maturity story, Carroll’s view on Victorian Society and even existential meaning on life. All of those interpretations come from philosophical “drive” of the critics. The truth is that anyone can point a finger at the book and come up with their own “deep” meaning of the story, but if one looks at facts, well known, and obvious things – it is clear that the story is simply a children tale intended for entertainment and nothing more.
Imagine knowing how you would die. Paranoia? Schizophrenia? Insomnia? All of these feelings would set in as you sat waiting to be the next victim. Ten Little Indians, published as And Then There Were None when it débuted in America, brought a wonderful sense of mystery into the life of the American. Written by Agatha Christie, it was published in 1939 as a fiction murder mystery. The story is set on an island off the coast of Devon, England during the thirties. Ten Little Indians is a classic murder mystery, which involves ten unsuspecting average people. While it seems that one of these people would be the main character, everyone is equally important in shaping the story.
The Scarlet Pimpernel is an eighteenth century novel that takes place in England and France during the French Revolution. The story takes places during the months September and October in the year 1792. In England we see the characters in a rural area free from death. For example, The Fishermen’s Rest is a small countryside pub where many of the characters such as Marguerite St. Just, Percy Blakeney, Lord Antony, and Andrew are seen safe. In France, however, the mood is very different. It is of civil unrest and the French aristocrats and people who help them must fear for their lives.
In Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast, Generous Orthodoxy, he explains what generous orthodoxy is. The generous part of generous orthodoxy amounts to being open to making changes and seeing change as positive, and the orthodoxy points to a more traditional stance on values. Combined, these two concepts are ironic, because generally traditions aren’t changed easily, and the changes made aren’t always accepted by the community that stands behind those traditions. Gladwell also explains that to make a positive change in a tradition, the body that you are trying to change must be respected.
Ten Little Indians, published as And Then There Were None when it débuted in America brought a wonderful sense of mystery into the life of the American. Written by Agatha Christie, it was published in 1939 as a fiction murder mystery. The story is set on the coast of Devon, England during the thirties. Ten Little Indians is a classic murder mystery, which involves ten unsuspecting average people. While it seems that one of these people would be the main character, everyone is equally important in shaping the story.
As the mists of tension fall around Indian Island and cold bodies settle into their resting places, blood does not run as a masked murderer skulks throughout a party of ten already guilty murderers. In Agatha Christie’s novel, And Then There Were None, Christie created her own ultimate justice system that examines the extremes required to break social stratification. Variant from the traditional justice structure, Christie creates a system that erases the human err commonly faced in criminal justice, such as bias towards a specific class or false judgement of a person’s character; however, the previous flaws are replaced by greater sin in the ultimate justice system established within the novel. Thus, the social constructs upheld by judgement and privilege are shown blatantly within
The first two chapters are mainly focused on introducing a character by the name of Hercule Poirot, who is the main character and the detective in the story. In the first chapter, which takes place on a train in Syria, Poirot is observing two other passengers by the name of Mary Debenham and Colonel Debenham. In the second chapter Poirot checks into his hotel in Syria and he receives a telegram saying that he has to go back to London so he books a ticket on the Orient Express back to London with the help of M. Bouc, the guy who owns the actual train.
Agatha Christie depicts a descriptive, fictional murder mystery in the novel ABC Murders. With the help of the narrator, Captain Arthur Hastings, Hercule Poirot solves the murders of four victims who are killed in alphabetical order by Franklin Clarke, more commonly known as ABC. The story elicits copious high points but the rare low point as well. Examples of these aspects can be found within the plot, setting, characters, conflict, and theme of the book. According to Stanford’s Suggested Reading List, the book is considered a “must read.” ABC Murders definitely holds up to the reputation placed upon it by Stanford and would be a favorable choice for anyone wishing to read a well written novel.
“The ABC Murders” is about a detective by the name of Poirot who has to find clues on a killer who is killing people whose names are in alphabetical order. It started off with Alice Ascher from Andover. Then it went to Betty Barnard from Bexhill and then to Sir Carmichael Clarke from Churston. Each time the murderer committed a crime he would leave an ABC Train Map by the victim. The murderer was an experienced criminal who left no trace of his identity. He goes by the name of ABC. Before each murder ABC would send Poirot a letter saying the date and town the murder would happen. The relatives of the victims came together with Poirot to help try and get ahead of the criminal. In the ending Poirot reveals that the brother of Sir Carmichael Clarke, Franklin Clarke committed the crimes to draw away attention from him wanting to inherit his brothers treasures. He had to kill him so he couldn’t marry Thora Grey and not get the money. Franklin Clarke tried to frame the murders on Mr. Cust who is a travelling salesman.
Vera felt as though it was only right to follow the poem. Every time somebody died or disappeared a little china figure would break or disappear but at the end Vera toke the last one standing with her as a token saying that they made it to the end. While she was hanging herself the little figure broke, “The little china figure fell from her hand. It rolled unneeded and broke against the fender” (Christie 268). She also thought that’s what Hugo wanted her to because she was responsible for his nephew death.
Morals are principles which help people to behave rightly. Also, they need to protect the rules. However, in Agatha Christie’s novel, Murder on the Orient Express, the characters act dishonestly: twelve passengers on the Orient Express murder Cassetti, they lie to the Belgian private detective, Hercule Poirot and the protagonist overlooks the passengers. Agatha Christie wrote these intensions fairly. From Murder on the Orient Express, the readers can learn that some set of morals are endorsed.
First, Holmes is the first scientific detective. Second, all of his cases ended up solved so therefore there are no flaws in his method. Well after researching in and out of books and web sites, I finally found the "true" way Holmes solved crimes. The site I found such spectacular information is Sherlockian.Net. This sight was helpful and it made me understand most of the stories by Conan Doyle.
Agatha Christie wrote Murder on the Orient Express in 1934 and based it on two events that actually occurred.
Aside from the very obvious madness and chaos of the scene, there is also a very stark example of the dream logic displayed in other parts of the story. There is also a sense of the feelings of loneliness. Alice is the only one that seems upset about the unfairness of the situation, especially when she grows back to her full size and everyone turns on her. This shows the separation she has from the other characters in terms of their state of mind. This is also where another aspect of the dream logic comes into play. Alice becomes the center of attention during the trial. When Alice grows back to her normal size, she draws all the attention to herself, the Knave all but forgotten in the chaos. When she was small, the King’s claim of “justice” is the absolute authority of a monarchy-based government. In a monarchy, all the power lies within the royal family. Alice’s size makes the King and his court feel threatened and orders that “All persons more than a mile high [are] to leave the court.” As Alice continues to grow, she becomes more aware of the absurdity and unfairness of the situation and more willing to speak out. When the Queen makes the ridiculously unfair declaration “Sentence first – verdict afterwards,” Alice replies with “Stuff and nonsense!” which causes the card soldiers to fly up in her face in an attack. The scene ends when Alice dismisses the King, Queen, and their court as “nothing but a pack of cards!” The cards continue to fly at her violently as she wakes up from her dream. This is yet another aspect of dream logic. When something sudden and frightening happens in a dream, it often wakes up the dreamer. It is Alice’s realizations that give her power o...
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