Agatha Christie Writing Style
In a writing career that lasted fifty-five years, Agatha Christie wrote seventy-two novels and fifteen collections of short stories that are still a part of pop culture today. Her Hercule Poirot series is thirty-three novels long and Poirot is one of the most famous and long lived characters that anyone could relate to. Throughout the Hercule Poirot series, Agatha Christie’s writing style changed in a negative way. Her writing style changed through how the vocabulary, the way she presented the clues and the speed at which the plot develops gets worse between her tenth Poirot novel, Murder in the Orient Express, and her last Poirot novel Elephants Can Remember.
When Agatha Christie wrote her novel Murder on the Orient Express, she was married …show more content…
In Murder on the Orient Express, the plot is unique and interesting.; It develops at a good pace, does not drag on with useless detail, but includes just the right amount of detail for the reader to know what is happening consistently. On the first page in Murder on the Orient Express, we are introduced to the main character, Hercule Poirot, and about thirty pages later, the investigation begins, but in Elephants Can Remember, it is not until fifty pages in that Detective Poirot and Mrs. Oliver start interviewing “elephants”. In Elephants Can Remember, “The key to the mystery features two of Agatha’s worst tried and trusted devices; identical twins to be confused with one another, and the ‘replacement’ relative who lives unsuspected by their nearest and dearest for some time.” This review is a good example of how Agatha’s plot development got worse throughout her Hercule Poirot series because while Elephants Can Remember uses situations from other Agatha Christie plots, Murder on the Orient Express was a completely new and unique idea for a murder mystery plot at the time it was …show more content…
Throughout the Hercule Poirot series, Agatha Christie’s writing style changed in many different ways. We can see how her writing style changed through her vocabulary, the way she presented the clues and the speed at which the plot developed get worse between her tenth Poirot novel, Murder in the Orient Express, and her last Poirot novel Elephants Can Remember. Agatha Christie wrote seventy-two novels and fifteen collections of short stories during a writing career that lasted fifty-five years, which are still a part of pop culture
When Agatha Christie wrote her novel Murder on the Orient Express, she was married …show more content…
In Murder on the Orient Express, the plot is unique and interesting.; It develops at a good pace, does not drag on with useless detail, but includes just the right amount of detail for the reader to know what is happening consistently. On the first page in Murder on the Orient Express, we are introduced to the main character, Hercule Poirot, and about thirty pages later, the investigation begins, but in Elephants Can Remember, it is not until fifty pages in that Detective Poirot and Mrs. Oliver start interviewing “elephants”. In Elephants Can Remember, “The key to the mystery features two of Agatha’s worst tried and trusted devices; identical twins to be confused with one another, and the ‘replacement’ relative who lives unsuspected by their nearest and dearest for some time.” This review is a good example of how Agatha’s plot development got worse throughout her Hercule Poirot series because while Elephants Can Remember uses situations from other Agatha Christie plots, Murder on the Orient Express was a completely new and unique idea for a murder mystery plot at the time it was …show more content…
Throughout the Hercule Poirot series, Agatha Christie’s writing style changed in many different ways. We can see how her writing style changed through her vocabulary, the way she presented the clues and the speed at which the plot developed get worse between her tenth Poirot novel, Murder in the Orient Express, and her last Poirot novel Elephants Can Remember. Agatha Christie wrote seventy-two novels and fifteen collections of short stories during a writing career that lasted fifty-five years, which are still a part of pop culture