Eleusinian Mysteries

Kreena Patel Book Talk For the mystery book talk, I read, “Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters” by Gail Giles. The setting takes place in present day Texas throughout the whole novel. The main characters were Sunny Reynolds (14) who was the main detective of the novel, and the younger sister of the dead sister, who died in a fire in New York, but was deeply loved by everyone, Deborah Hallard a girl who looked and pretended to be Jasmine Reynolds (the girl who died), but knew everything about her

Readers who have never picked up on the Dashiell Hammett detective novel The Maltese Falcon 1930 or seen the classic 1941 film adaptation, which follows the novel almost verbatim, can feel a strong sense of familiarity, faced for the first time in history. In this book, Hammett invented the hard-boiled private eye genre, introducing many of the elements that readers have come to expect from detective stories: mysterious, attractive woman whose love can be a trap , search for exotic icon that people

Dorothy L. Sayers’ Gaudy Night When Gayle Wald wrote, “Sayers’s career writing detective stories effectively ends with Gaudy Night” (108), she did not present a new argument, but continued the tradition that Gaudy Night does not center on the detective story.  Barbara Harrison even labeled Dorothy Sayers’s Lord Peter/Harriet Vane books, Strong Poison, Gaudy Night, and Busman’s Honeymoon, as “deliriously happy-ending romances” (66).  The label stretches the definition of a romance, but Gaudy

The Role of the Innocent Heroine in Turn of the Screw and Northanger Abbey The function of the innocent heroine in gothic literature is, primarily, to follow her curiosity into the deepest, darkest corners of an appropriate gothic setting, uncover some awful secret contained therein, and do a lot of running around in her nightgown to be saved at the appropriate moment by a strong, capable suitor. In both Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James this trope is challenged

common people: morality plays and mystery plays. A morality play is a didactic, religious, allegorical play that is not explicitly in regards to a biblical story, but rather tells the audience how they should act and how they should think; a morality play is sponsored by a church or religious group. Everyman is a morality play that emerged in the medieval time period, while The Second Shepherd’s Play is a mystery play that existed in the same time period. A mystery play is one that tells a biblical

Chinatown, directed by Roman Polanski, is a thriller, detective fiction and film noir. Back story plays an important role within Chinatown as it allows the audience to be exposed to the greed and corruption within the plot through a slow reveal. Characteristic of a detective fiction is the slow release of information allowing for the audience to understand the crime and its’ motives at the same pace as the detective. The backstory behind Chinatown builds tension within the story as it clearly foreshadows

business, she is known as the queen of Crime. She has written 80 crime novels and is best at creating suspense and mystery in her novels with simplest language(according to me) which creates more interest in her novels. Mystery, language and suspense are the only criteria that can be used to judge these types of novels which the author created very successfully she was able to create mystery about two of its characters (Mr. Brown and Jane) and that’s what kept my interest in the novel. Plot:- The story

Mystery plays, which typically enacted stories of God, Jesus, and the saints, were the main source of biblical education for lay folk in the Middle Ages. As John’s gullibility shows, his education through mystery plays means that he has only a slight understanding of the Bible. The Miller begins his biblical puns in his Prologue, when he says that he will

The Mystery of Oak Island The World’s Longest Unsolved Mystery The Mystery of Oak Island Close your eyes and imagine the excitement and adventure of finding a mystery that involves many deaths, unknown treasures and much speculation. Mysteries are intriguing and finding a real life mystery that has been unsolved in history for several hundred years is unusual. Throughout time millions of people have been interested in treasures, legends and unsolved mysteries. Books, movies and legends

One proven sale tactic that delivers increased revenue in under 30 days is to mystery shop your own sales team and or front desk. During the last 15 years, research has documented that mystery shopping plus individual coaching rapidly generates increased sales, RevPAR plus higher net profits. As Vice President of Sales for both Marriott and Choice Hotels, I hired multiple mystery-shopping providers. Each time the results have been the same. Sales and net profits went up while discounting went down