The Nancy Drew Mystery series was a huge success when it was published and still is to this day. Nancy Drew was the embodiment of independence, pluck, and intelligence when the series’ first began with the creator Edward Stratemeyer and his daughter Harriet Stratemeyer. Nancy Drew was everything that little girls craved to be like, and was debuted at a time when females were ready for something different (citation). The series began being wrote in the 1930’s during the great depression era by a women name Mildred A. Wirt Benson when actually went by Carolyn Keene a pseudonym. This became a pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew mystery series. Mildred wrote twenty three of the first thirty original Nancy Drew Mystery series. The original …show more content…
One of the first ways which this series fits into this genre is because Nancy Drew and her crew are always trying to solve some sort of mystery. In the book the of Mystery of the Brass Bound Trunk, Nancy and her friends are trying to solve where the mysterious brass bound trunk had come from when luggage was delivered to their room on the ship. Things got a lot more serious than finding out whose trunk it was, when the sleuth and her friends opened the trunk to try and locate an owner. Another was in which this series can fit into the mystery and detection genre is by the way Nancy Drew conducts her detective work. She uses deductive reasoning, like the famous Sherlock Holmes …show more content…
Nancy tells this story without any bias in what she says. The setting of the story takes place on an ocean liner named the Winschoten. The story first begins when the girls are aboard the ship in Rotterdam, most of the action takes place on the ship while it is at sea headed to New York. Areas on the ship of importance include room one twenty eight and room one thirty, the captain’s quarters, the holding for luggage, and the sports deck on the ship. Another important element of fiction important to this story that has a huge impact on the ending event of the story is what we call the falling action, which would be when Nancy and Nelda are thrown overboard by two men dressed as fishermen. This then leads to the resolution of the story where the jewelry thieves are arrested and Nelda can finally be freed from the scrutiny of a crime she did not
Logos is a major factor when writing the plot of any mystery story. “The logic you use as an author or composer also significant when you tell a story. Usually follows a pattern in which the plot and characters unfold in a logical manner to the reader.”In some instances the detective, or person trying to solve the mystery is an average person. The story is laid out so that you know what they know and if you are smart enough, you can solve the mystery as quick, or even before it is revealed, without reading the end. My boyfriend is quite good at this when watching one of my favorite shows, Bones. It is a type of mystery where the story gradually unfolds and the big reveal is shown at the end tying it all together. Quite often I have to tell him to keep it to himself so I can watch the story unfold. In some instances mysteries are derived from real
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a unique and vital character in American history. She played an imperative role in the equality and advancement of not just African-American women, but women in general. Although she was born a free women in Maryland she had an unparalleled knack for describing and capturing the evils and horrors of slavery. She wrote a plethora of novels, short stories and poems. In her early years she taught in both Ohio and Pennsylvania, after leaving teaching she left teaching to lecture for the Maine Anti-slavery society along with other anti-slavery organizations. She also worked to help fugitive slaves escape to Canada through the Underground Railroad. Frances E. W. Harper was an impeccable writer and human being, she made unmatched contributions to history through her works as an equal rights activist and beautifully captures the identity of
Female authors were first introduced in the late 1800’s; nobody knew what to expect since women never
Mystery is used to give the story a scary and unusual setting. First, the story about Ship Trap Island is used to arouse superstitions. These superstitions bring you into the story to make the reader desire more about the mystery. Second, mystery is used whenever Rainsford hears the shots, the screams, and later sees the bloody brush. This makes you want to know what was hunted down and killed there. Lastly, mystery engross General Zaroff’s huge chateau. Connell’s description of a home on the edge of a cliff with tall towers, iron gates, and a gargoyle knocker makes for a good mystery. This home makes the reader think, why is this here.
The Year of Magical Thinking is Joan Didion’s account of the year following the death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. The book shows how she attempts to cope with the grief of the death of her husband while tending to her daughter’s, Quintana, severe illness. In the book Didion does something, which might seem abnormal to some people. While Didion is cleaning out her husband’s closet at work she cannot find herself throwing away her husband’s shoes because “he would need shoes if he was to return” (Didion). Joan Didion reactions to death is typically American because of how people in America cannot cope with death and refuse to accept the notion that their loved one has passed away while other cultures are able to accept the idea of death because their loved ones are not gone but still here with them.
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion is a memoir about her husband, John Dunne, who died before her eyes. In her story, she goes in depth about her feelings regarding her life the year after his death and how she attempts to cope with his death. In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion accentuates the dangers of magical thinking through her wishful thinking, irrational thoughts, and self-reflection.
Stephen King says “We make up horrors to help us deal with the real ones” and Heidi Strengell wrote an essay called “The Monster Never Dies” were she discusses the gothic double. She says “the gothic double reveals our inability to evolve past our base instincts, to purge them form the human psyche.” A gothic double is something found in all sorts of literature. A gothic double would be opposites that are related, whether it be a person, a setting, a group, ect. For example good and evil, or right and wrong. They are connected because they have some form of conflict or tension with one another but also share a commonality. There are examples of gothic doubles everywhere. One example that first pops in my head that people should know is Dr Jekyll
Sarah Margaret Fuller was born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts on May 23rd, 1810, she later dropped her first name for professional purposes. She was the first of nine children. Her father Timothy Fuller was a lawyer, and a congressman and very educated. In her younger years of life her father rigorously educated her, teaching her Latin, Greek, French and Italian. She spent many hours a day studying, and by the time she was ten years old had read stories such as Shakespeare and many other classics. At age fourteen she moved away from her family to attend school, and a year later she returned home to continue educating herself (Baym).
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.
Madison Johns started writing novels late in life (at forty-four), and has seen two books from her independently published series “Agnes Barton Senior Sleuth Mystery” hit the USA Today Bestseller list. It would take her four
The birth of classic detective fiction was originated just in the mid nineteenth century, and was producing its own genre. Classical detective fiction follows a set of rules called the ‘Ten commandments of detective fiction’. The genre is so popular it can bee seen by the number of sales in any good book stores. Many of these books have been created a long time ago and there is still a demand for these types of books. The popularity is still ongoing because it provides constant entertainment, and also the reader can also have a role of detective trying to solve the crime/case committed. Classical detective fiction has a formula, the detective story starts with a seemingly irresolvable mystery, typically a murder, features the astute, often unconventional detective, a wrongly accused suspect to whom the circumstantial evidence points, and concludes with a startling or unexpected solution to the mystery, during which the detective explains how he or she solved the mystery. Formula that includes certain elements such as, a closed location to keep the number of suspects down, red hearings spread around the stories to keep the reader entertained yet interacted.
Limited opportunities for women to share their opinions publicly throughout the Nineteenth century caused an abundance of females to communicate their ideas through writing. Catharine Maria Sedgwick was among the first of American authors to publish historical and other fiction. Much of her work deals with the role of white women in society, especially involving the Cult of Domesticity or True Womanhood. Sedgwick managed to incorporate her unorthodox views on women’s behavior, relationships, religion, and people foreign to her culture, while still appealing to a broad audience. Her novels, A New-England Tale, published in 1822 and Hope Leslie published in 1827, contradict the mainstream ideals of her time. The time period and culture, during which Sedgwick matured, along with her family relationships, greatly influenced her work.
Author- Agatha Christie was born in 1890 in England and raised by a wealthy American father and English mother. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the author of 78 crime novels and was made a dame in 1971. She was married twice, her second husband being an archeologist whom she often traveled with on his archeological exhibitions to the Middle East. This gave her an understanding of that part of the world, which she used in this story. Agatha Christie died in 1976 in her home in England.
The most important part of any type of book or story is that it be interesting. This proves to be particularly important in detective fiction as well. What could be more interesting than having a crime committed in front of you, given all (or most) of the details and still not be able to figure it out? This is exactly how detective fiction authors draw people into these stories and books. By weaving an intricate and interesting plot full of fascinating characters, and all types of details about the crime, readers get drawn into the plot and cannot stop reading until they find out the solution to the mystery. Simply put, readers are drawn to detective fiction because it is so easy to become completely engrossed in the stories. The trick of the author is how to create such an environment to keep readers coming back again and again to the genre.