A Summary Of The Orient Express

Entering the office and showing Holmes and Watson an 18th century manuscript, Dr. James Mortimer tells the myth of Hugo Baskerville. Hugo captured and imprisoned a young country girl at his estate in Devonshire. He then became the victim of a hound of hell as he chased her along the lonesome moors late one night. Ever since that day, James Mortimer reports, the Baskerville family has been haunted by a mysterious and supernatural black hound. The recent death of Sir Charles Baskerville has brought back suspicions and fears. The next of kin, Holmes and Watson find out, has arrived in London to take up his post at Baskerville Hall, but he has already been intimidated by an anonymous warning note and the theft of a shoe.

1. Throughout the story suspense is aroused and maintained excellently. This is achieved by the character the author creates. Mr. Martin is characterized as a neat and cautious man, who never took a smoke or a drink in his life. Our suspense is aroused when the author states that it has been “a week to the day since Mr. Martin had decided to rub out Mrs. Ulgine Barrows”. This arouses our suspense because we are told Mr. Martin is planning to murder this woman. The suspense is maintained with Mr. Martin’s thoughts. We as an audience are given his thoughts through the use of the 3rd person omniscient point of view. His thoughts are mostly on the issue on his dislike of Mrs. Barrows. Because of this, he

The patented murder mystery, in all its addictive predictability, presents the audience with numerous cliches: a stormy night, a shadowy figure, a sinister butler, and a mysterious phone call. Susan Glaspell's Trifles does not fit this mold. Glaspell's mysterious inquiry into the murder of John Wright presents the reader with only one suspect, Mrs. Wright. Even though the court examiner and sheriff cannot find evidence against Mrs. Wright, the reader can plausibly argue the case against the neglected wife. Glaspell's use of descriptive language and subtle hints established the mood, presents the motive, and uncovers the evidence needed to solve this murder mystery.

The novel depicts slavery and the problems faced by people due to racism in the history of America. The basic theme of the novel is the troubles and distresses that were faced by the slaves or colored people in those times. The book shows the struggles they did and the sacrifices they made for freedom.

In Michael Crichton’s The Great Train Robbery, gentleman burglar Edward Pierce organizes a gold heist. He has the opportunity and means to commit the crime, but his motive is never explicitly revealed. Crichton indicates that Pierce’s motive sprouts not from greed nor necessity. Instead, Pierce commits the crime because he is obsessed with manipulating other people.

What makes a person tick? Why does he do the things that he does? These questions, commonly asked about criminals, are relevant when evaluating Edward Pierce’s motives behind “Great Train Robbery.” Throughout The Great Train Robbery, Pierce refused to give up his plan for an “impossible” robbery, due to his incessant need to do something that it was deemed impossible.

The Underground Railroad is a fictional novel written by Colson Whitehead that was first published in 2016. This is WHitehead’s sixth novel he has written. However, this book is his first one to have won a Pulitzer prize award. I chose this book due to its connection with the slave time period and, after reading the novel, I would encourage others to read this novel as well. Colson creates an escapist approach to explore the legacy of American racial trauma. The Underground Railroad provides many thematic topics such as subtle forms of oppression, freedom, and the roots of violence. Colson uses symbolized references in his novel related to the Bible, the underground railroads, the Declaration of Independence, and the Gulliver’s Travels.

As the old man pleads with his wife “For God’s sake don’t let it in” The reader is left to imagine the horrific sight of Herbert with the remnants of his grave on his disfigured body. The trail approaching the tracks in “The Signalman” is a “zig zag descending path”. Tension is increased by the description of the writers descent towards the rail way track“[the path] became oozier and wetter as I went down”. This gives the reader the feeling of sluggishness; the image slows the story down and thus increases the suspense. Unlike “The Red Room” and “The Monkey’s Paw”, the setting of “The Telltale Heart” is not significant to building up suspense; however there are a few elements that do contribute to the uneasy atmosphere.

Due to Holmes’ suspicion he and Watson desired to investigate further; they departed to Stoke Moran. They revealed some interesting clues. First of all, the bed was clamped to the floor, there were metallic bars on the windows, along with a forged bell chord attached to a ventilator. Holmes soon found out that the ventilator was connected to Dr. Roylott 's room. This made Sherlock curious, wanting to know more. Helen was a young woman who was frightened of the strong and abusive, Dr. Roylott. She had prearranged to switch places with Sherlock and Watson so they could resolve the case once and for all. She exchanged places after Dr. Roylott was “asleep”. When Sherlock and Holmes arrived to Stoke Moran, they waited and waited. During the middle of the story, both the mood and tone shift. The mood soon became petrified. The tone soon also became something else, challenging. Sherlock Holmes and

The dialogue used by the author shows that the narrator has a great deal of forethought. When the police ask about a shriek heard by the neighbors he has already thought of a lie that the shriek, “was my own in a dream,”. Dialogue also reveals the discomfort of the narrator at the end of the story. The narrator tries to talk when he starts to hear ringing in his ears. The narrator says that he, “...talked more freely to get rid of the feeling: but it continued and gained definiteness.”. The character is no longer completely comfortable with his plan to cover up the murder.

Christopher went to check on his neighbor’s dog Wellington when he looked up to see Mrs. Shears screaming, and calling the cops. After he was found innocent, Christopher decided to launch an investigation on who killed Wellington. When his father found out he told Christopher to leave it alone. Christopher ignores him and asks Mrs. Alexander questions soon their relationship grows and Christopher begins to trust her. When Christopher asked her why his father doesn’t like Mr. Shears she told him that his mother and Mr. Shears had an affair. When his father found Christopher’s book he learned that Christopher knows about the affair and that he was still being a “detective”. His father hid the book from Christopher, when he found the book he also found letters. The letters went sent from his mother, even after she “died”. When his dad found him with the letters he explained why he said she was dead, why he kept the letters from him, and why he killed Wellington. Later that night Christopher ran away from his father to London, England where his mother lives. When he arrived his mother took him in and he explained why he was there because being afraid of his father. When Christopher remembered his A level math class he and his mother move back to Swindon, England, soon Christopher begins to trust his

Sherlock Homes entered DR.Roylott’s room to see him dead with the speckled band laying across his forehead. This made the story give off an uplifting tone because there is nothing else to worry about counting that it will not occur again. A happy mood struck all the readers with the joy that Helen could now get married and that she has the relief that no one is trying to take her money. “The adventure of the speckled Band” was indeed a foul play story. There were numerous true clues and several red herrings to support.

In the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell, there was a woman that went by the name Mrs. Wright being accused of her husband’s death. Mrs. Wright was a very lonely woman who didn’t have much visitors and also didn’t have any children. George Henderson was the court attorney asking questions to figure out what had occurred in the Wright home. He was accompanied by the Henry Peters and Lewis Hale. Henry Peters was the sheriff and Lewis Hale was a farmer that lived in the area.

While Colson Whiteheads, The Underground Railroad (2016) memorializes slavery, it also broadens our otherwise unrealistic views of American history. The novel follows a young slave girl, Cora, on her historic venture through delusional America on the Underground Railroad, shortly after the congress passed the Compromise of 1850 (285). As Cora travels north, she discovers that every state individually expresses different attributes of slavery (68). The Compromise of 1850 forced northerners to return all found fugitive slaves back to the south (TC1850). During an interview with David Bianculli, Whitehead mentions that the default view of slavery consists of strict slave catcher’s and master’s interpretations, rather than the historical aspects of slavery (8 Aug. 2016). This observation allows him to focus on a fictional storyline that derives nonfictional events in history. In, The Underground Railroad, Whitehead emphasizes an alternate view of the American history pertaining to the institution of slavery.

Not only do they lie to the other passengers of the train and the reader, but also to the great detective Herlcule Poirot. “Lies- and again lies. It amazes me, the amount of lies we had told to us this morning… There are still more to discover.” (Christie MOE 61). The ego of the passengers and isolation are in sync to the theory as they are all in small space with so much hatred towards the man that it drives them enough to kill him. Being so tight in a small compartment leads them to all kill Ratchtte for what he did to the little girl of Daisy Armstrong together and knew what they were doing. The passengers have it set in their mind that they want to kill him in which they do but never speak a word of it to Poirot. “If ever a man deserves what he got, Ratchett... Is the man... I'm Rejoice I was end. Such a man wasn't fit to live!” (2.13). In closing, both novels show the ego/illness by all the guests on the island and train committing a murder, lie about themselves, and hold inner disires that only the reader learns to find out.