Analysis Of Murder On The Orient Express By Agatha Christie

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Life is not fair to everybody. Sometimes situations work out well for some people, but not so much for others. Laws and regulations passed and enforced by the government can greatly affect how events work out for people. It has happened where people who should have had consequences for breaking the law have gotten off scot-free because the way the justice system is set up. When this happens, some people have been known to take control of the situation themselves and do what they think is morally right. In both And Then There Were None and Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie uses plot to reveal that the administration of justice by the government is not always fair and must be taken into one’s own hands.
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The way that she wrote plots and revealed each event to the reader made readers never want to put down the book. In And Then There Were None, Christie writes the quote, “It is perfectly clear. Mr. Owen is one of us.…” (Christie 101). This quote builds a great amount of uncertainty and suspense in the reader's mind, as now they have to try to decide who they think the killer is, based on clues and other events that will happen in the plot.
In Murder on the Orient Express, the film opens with the kidnapping of the Armstrong girl. The way Agatha described it when she wrote her book, converted to how they wrote a script and filmed it, builds a great amount of suspense as to who it could be due to the way it is shown, taking place in the dark with the culprit’s face not shown. As for when everyone is on the train, suspense is built as Hercule Poirot asks everyone questions and new information is revealed, until the elaborate explanation at the …show more content…

Whether it is that Christie makes this character seem important using various writing techniques or something else, both stories the connection. In Murder on the Orient Express, the one who stands out and does the solving of the case is the well known detective, Hercule Poirot. This character, created by Agatha Christie, has been used in 33 of her books and has a well developed personality from being in many of her writings over the years. Hercule has been known for his ability to pay very close attention to details in a case as well as having a methodology for solving cases. In the 1974 movie, not much information is given about the background of Mr. Poirot. Viewers find out soon that he is a distinguished detective and is seen to have a great amount of freedom to do as he wants and solve the cases that he wishes to. Because of this, he does not always follow the law, but sometimes makes decisions on his own, based on his own conscience and his idea of moral law. With what viewers see take place in the end of Murder on the Orient Express, Poirot not turning in the group who all stabbed Mr. Ratchett, we see that on occasion, he lets the real murderers go. This novel is one of two Christie books where the murder is let off. While Poirot does not always obey the law, he always abides by his conscience and his sense moral

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