Murder On The Orient Express Essay

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Through reading the Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, it was very attention-grabbing to read how the past can and will come back to haunt you. The Murder on the Orient Express greatly justifies how ones pasts actions can catch up to them for the worse. Christie is able to relive this crime throughout the book by several different key efforts. It is obvious that after reading a few chapters that Christie incorporated several facts from the Lindbergh case in order to really allow the reader to feel the anger of how justice was served within the court systems. Back when the Lindbergh case happened the court systems were not truthful to the actions of the person who committed the crime. The case that is talked about in this novel is the death of Daisy Armstrong and trying to achieve justice for the actions that Mr. Ratchett committed. This case was a great example of how ones money can curve the outcome of the punishment. Back in the day, if the person in question of the crime was of wealth most likely the outcome varied due to different money offerings they would give to the jury. As of now this is no longer a thing within the jury system do to the jury being at random and not being able to be associated with the person in question. The person …show more content…
The three main topics were the concepts of justice, guilt, and law within a truly international, if highly artificial context. Christie’s knowledge of the law and the justice system are very realistic within this novel due to the past events that took place in order for her to relive this horror. She was inspired to write this novel by the American kidnapping and death of Charles Lindbergh’s two year old son. Christie was able to elaborate significantly what the American justice system and the international western agreement on the concepts of justice really were due to using this particular case as a

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