Anna Christie

Two hundred million dollars,that's what the heirs had a chance of winning if they could solve the puzzle. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin is a book full of excitement and mystery. The puzzles and all kinds of clues and very controversial decisions are made. The Westing Game book and movie contain many similarities and differences that are worth staying for. The novel and the movie are very different,in a unique way. The book is a story where there are 16 heirs and they all tell their own

sometimes so cruel. . . The sea dragged you down to its depths. Drowned. . . Found drowned. . . Drowned at sea” (Christie 35). Her guilt intensifies as the novel progresses, she remembers the boy constantly nagging her about swimming to the far rock. She also hallucinates, “And then, as she stood there listening – a cold, clammy hand touched her throat – a wet hand smelling of the sea” (Christie 217). Her guilt and fear ends up affecting how she acts

The book "The Jefferson County Egan Murders" is about the three Egan's who were murdered on New Year's Eve in 1964. Barbara (age 24), Peter (age 27), and Gerald (age 19, and younger brother of Peter) Egan were criminals. All of Jefferson County knew about them. The Egan's were burglars. They were well known to the police, especially in Watertown. At this time, they were under investigation for a string of burglaries. The police knew it was them, but knowing is not proving. Peter was wanted for 13

Alfred Hitchcock Presents "The Perfect Murder": A Rhetorical Analysis In "The Perfect Murder," from Alfred Hitchcock Presents is a black and white television series aired from 1955 to 1962. It is a story about two brothers, Paul and Henri, they are trying to come up with the perfect plan to get their inheritance from their recently deceased uncle, by any means necessary. The only thing stopping them is their perfectly healthy and stubborn Aunt Rosalie. Aunt Rosalie is very perceptive, stubborn,

In the short story, “A Red Girl’s Reasoning” by Pauline Johnson, Charlie and Christie’s cultural differences and personality flaws act as a catalyst towards the sudden downfall of their relationship. This is demonstrated through Christie’s excessive pride, Charlie’s self-absorption, and his lack of open-mindedness regarding his wife’s Indigenous culture and perspective. To begin, Christie’s stubborn and prideful nature is exhibited throughout the story. This is evident when she defends her parents’

Agatha Christie wrote the murder mystery And Then There Were None. In this novel, a deranged person plans and executes the deaths of ten people. These victims were invited as guests for a weekend vacation to Indian Island in Britain. There, one by one, they are killed by the mysterious U. N. Owen, who is posing as a guest and killing the others using methods derived from the nursery rhyme “Ten Little Indians.” It is discovered that each guest had committed an indirect act of murder that they could

Justice is one of, if not, the most important themes in the novel And Then There Were None. And Then There Were None puts a twist on the way justice is achieved by making the murder victims murderers themselves, making the reader think if the murders were acts of justice or were they the insane acts of a crazy man. Judge Wargrave, we find out at the very end of the book, is the killer but acts as the detective throughout the book, making it a shocking ending when we find out that he did it.

Announced directed by Don Gay. Calvin Christian School’s grade 9-12 drama classes and the Student Theatre Company attended this production on Thursday the 7th of May at The Playhouse Theatre. This play is an adaptation of the famous book by author Agatha Christie who is considered the 2nd best-selling writer closely behind William Shakespeare. Plot: A murder is announced in the local newspaper and it reads that it would take place at Little Paddocks in Chipping Cleghorn. People start gathering at the household

The A.B.C Murders by Agatha Christie was one of the first truly good stories about a serial killer. It starts with Hercule Poirot receiving detailed letters about murders that are about to be committed and signed A.B.C. He shows his friend Arthur Hastings who has just arrived back in London from South America. There has now been three letters sent by A.B.C and each murder is being carried out in alphabetical order. Alice Ascher, killed in her tobacco shop in Andover, Elizabeth "Betty" Barnard, a

The Events on Soldier Island: Committed by Justice Wargrave In And Then There None, a novel written by Agatha Christie, 10 people are found dead on Soldier island. All ten victims are somehow responsible for a murder in their past and all were trapped on soldier island until their demise. This occurrence is perplexing as a single murderer could not be pinpointed by detectives. The culprit is Lawrence Wargrave, a retired justice whose occupation can be seen as suspicious. His characterization, and