Chris Christie

Christie’s most popular murder-mystery novel, And Then There Were None, Christie explores the thin line between retribution and justice. She does this by twisting the typical murder situation to make the usually innocent victims, killers themselves. This makes the audience question the morality of the murders if the murder is bringing the other killers too justice. This use of moral ambiguity and character behavior, allows Christie to develop the novel's three crucial themes: distortion of…

voice on a record player (Christie 48). * “Funny, just this minute he didn’t want to get away from the island… back to his little house, back to all the troubles and worries… You’ve come to the end of things… He knew, suddenly that he didn’t want to leave the island” (Christie 86). * “Her eyes grew vague and filmy. The pencil staggered drunkenly in her fingers. In shaking, loose capitals she wrote: THE MURDERER’S NAME IS BEATRICE TAYLOR… Did I write that?” (Christie 175). * “That was…

“Invitation to Murder” Situational Irony Essay “Invitation to Murder” is a short story filled with suspense and mystery written by Josh Pachter. The setting is in New York during modern times. Branigan, an investigator, had a strange letter sent to him under the name of Eleanor Abbott. The invitation was fancy with the color of black rimmed around the edges. It had an address, time, and specific day printed on it. The most inexplicable part of the letter stated “Impending murder of her husband,…

The world of mystery novels has made a great series of books, but this world has changed to a more modern version, television shows. This more modern series has had a great impact on the mystery genre. I’m curious to know how the characters of And Then There Were None compare to those of these crime solving T.V. shows, how the motives of these psychopaths in real life also comparable to those of Mr. Justice Wargrave, and how the styles of murder in these T.V. shows compared to the style of…

young age. Since a young child, she was a very shy child, who was unable to express her feelings, but turning toward music was her first resort and later on in life she turned to writing. At the age of 24, in 1914, she married her husband Archie Christie, who was a pilot in WWI. While he was away, she was working as a nurse and this is when she began writing a detective novel. At the age of 30, she wrote the book “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.” The book initiates with…

Agatha Christie 's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Patricia Cornwell’s Postmortem contain interesting representations of women. The male characters in both texts have very poor views on women. The problem with the male character’s views is that the qualities they dislike in the women they also possess. The men in Christie text and the men in the Cornwell text all have problems containing their emotions. The texts as a whole highlight how the women are just as, if not more, capable than the males…

Summary instructions: Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie, is a novel written in the early 1900’s about a murder that occurred overnight on a train heading from Istanbul to Europe. But when the train is stuck in a snowdrift, Hercules Poirot, a renowned detective, decides to take matters into his own hands…

In the “Death on the Nile of Agatha Christie, Linnet, a young, beautiful, charming and rich lady is used by the “author to demonstrate the combined power of love and money. As the main character in this novel, Linnet’s role is very crucial. She shows her interest to take Jacqueline’s boyfriend using her intensive love and money. She thinks that she has power over everything and everybody because she is rich and beautiful. In addition, she thinks that she is too good for everyone.…

The Body in the Library, a novel written by Agatha Christie in the early twentieth century, women play a very vital role in helping to uncover the hidden truths throughout the novel (Thinkers View). Agatha Christie, a woman author who could be described as being a feminist, primarily wrote novels about detective fiction, mysteries, and secrets. Christies works symbolized the battle women during this time period were faced with while fighting for enhancement and equality of their rights. The main…

The play that I attended was The 39 Steps at the Metropolis theatre in Arlington Heights is an adaptation of an Alfred Hitchcock movie that was based on a novel written by John Buchan. The play was adapted by Partick Barlow and directed by David Belew. The type of plot that was followed was a cinematic with some presentational elements. Overall, the presentational elements paired with the comical elements of the play worked very well together and created a delightful experience. The play…