The Pale Horse Agatha Christie About the Author Mary Clarissa Agatha Miller (Agatha Christie) Birth Date- September 15‚ 1890 Death Date- January 12‚ 1979 Family Life: She grew up with her parents‚ an American father and British mother‚ in Torquay‚ Devon‚ South West England. She had two older siblings whom did not live in the house with Agatha when she was a child. She taught herself to read at the age of five and always had her imaginary friends.
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networking sites‚ you see reports of killing that occur a street away or on the other side of the world. “Why?” you wonder‚ “What drives murderers to cross the line and kill?” This question is explored in many of the murder mystery books written by the renowned author Agatha Christie whose books have been outsold by only Shakespeare and the Bible. Unlike her other works‚ the theme of Christie’s novel And Then There Were None fundamentally revolves around the very question mentioned above. Written
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Title: And Then There Were None Author: Agatha Christie Description of characters: 1. Lawrence Wargrave: Lawrence Wargrave was a retired judge. He’s an older man with a dominant personality‚ and commanded the group when they realized a killer was after them. After reading on in the book‚ you find out that this “tortoise-like” man was actually carrying out these murders. He even faked his own death so he would be aquitted of all blame. 2. Vera Claythorne: Vera Claythorne was a former nanny‚ who
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Agatha Christie is known to be one of the best-selling novelist in history. She has written over 60 detective novels and 14 short story collections. She holds the record for world’s longest running play - The Mousetrap. Christie’s first published novel‚ The Mysterious Affair at Styles‚ began as a bet with her sister who said she didn’t believe Christie could write a good detective novel. John Lane of The Bodley Head published the novel in 1919 and created a contract for Christie to produce five more
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Agatha Christie revolutionizes crime and mystery fiction in her novel And Then There Were None. She challenges traditional Holmesian‚ or detective fiction‚ writing by dispensing with a sleuth and uses the victims to explore the psychology of crime. Focusing on multiple victims that avoided limitations of punishment and forcing characters to question their own guilt is also unusual in crime literature. Further‚ Christie’s defiance of customary procedures for mystery writing ensures that it is unlikely
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Holden Caulfield: An Unreliable Narrator In The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield is the narrator; throughout the story he shows to be an unreliable and reliable narrator. Caulfield is a teenage boy‚ who is psychologically depressed and confused. To be an unreliable narrator‚ the narrator must be biased‚ a liar‚ and unable to associate with other characters in the novel. These are all characteristics that prove the Holden is an unreliable narrator throughout the development of the novel. http://search
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Agatha Christie – And Then There Were None Book Analysis Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was a British crime writer of novels‚ short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmaccot. Agatha Christie is best known for her detective novels in which characters like Hercule Poire‚ Miss Jane Marple‚ Tommy and Tuppence investigate the most trickiest and mind-blowing cases of crime and murder. Almost all of Agatha Christie’s books are
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until the end of the story. The withholding of information makes the reader wonder what the lottery is and this creates suspense. This in turn keeps the reader absorbed in the story. * Unreliable narrator The story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe has an unreliable narrator. The narrator is unreliable because Montresor is paranoid
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short story about the murder of an old man told by the unnamed narrator who committed the murder. The narrator gives a very detailed account of the event which gives one a good look at what is going on inside the narrator’s head. Throughout the story the story it becomes increasingly evident that the narrator of the story is not in his right mind and‚ therefore‚ is an unreliable source. It is evident that the narrator lacks the ability to reason logically. The reason the narrator gave for killing the
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In the novel‚ And Then There Were None‚ written by Agatha Christie‚ ten people are invited to an island under false pretenses‚ but slowly‚ one by one‚ the group starts dying off. All of the deaths of the group are based upon an old nursery rhyme called Ten Little Indians‚ which is hung in all the rooms. But when all of them arrive at the house on the island‚ a record player starts playing‚ explaining how all of them are guilty of murder. Soon after‚ Mrs. Roger’s is the first to drop dead‚ leaving
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