Murder On The Orient Express Themes

Cameron Dubuc
Honors English 12
Mrs. Gail Meeks
15 January 2016
Murder on the Orient Express By: Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express, written by Agatha Christie, is a murder mystery and a crime fiction novel. The themes to this book are: justice, judgement and crime. The most important character in Murder on the Orient Express is Mr. Hercule Poirot. He is a very smart and well respected detective from Belgium. Mr. Bouc, owner of the train company in which they were all traveling. Pierre Mitchell is the train conductor. Doctor Constantine, is the doctor of the Orient express who examines the dead body. Mary Debenham, an English governess, one of the first people to meet Mr. Poirot. Colonel Arbuthnot, an Englishman who is in love
The setting of Murder on the Orient Express is set sometime in the winter of the late 1920s to the early 1930s, approximately 1925-1933,. The setting is first aboard a train headed to Stamboul where Mary Debenham and Colonel Arbuthnot first meet Hercule Poirot, and then on a train from Stamboul to London, the Orient Express. The first night aboard the train, the train gets stuck in a snowdrift, and is forced to stop until help comes. There are a huge amount of discoveries found in Murder on the Orient Express but there are two that particularly stick
Ratchett. Mr. Poirot had said that there looked to be too many clues, they were all so different, and none the same. He knew for a fact that there were at least two murderers and both female and male were involved. He had figured out through all the clues, and interrogations that every person on the train was in some way connected to the Armstrong family. There were twelve stab wounds and twelve passengers excluding Mr. Poirot and Mr. Ratchett. These twelve people symbolized the twelve people who would participate in a jury, had justice been served correctly. They had all planned to be on the train with Cassetti, but didn’t expect Mr. Poirot to be on the train. His own assistant, Hector MacQueen, his father was the D.A. on the Armstrong case, and Mrs. Armstrong was like a mother figure to him. Edward Henry Masterman, Mr. Ratchett’s valet was Colonel Armstrong’s valet. Antonio Foscarelli was the Armstrong family’s chauffeur. Pierre Michel was the father of the maid who threw herself from a window because of her suspected involvement in the kidnapping. Cyrus Hardman was in love with the maid, who was also Pierre Michel’s daughter, who killed herself. Mary Debenham was Daisy’s governess. Princess Dragomiroff was Sonia Armstrong’s godmother. Hildegarde Schmidt was the cook in the Armstrong household. Countess Andrenyi was Daisy’s aunt, Sonia Armstrong’s sister. Finally, Mrs. Hubbard was Mrs. Linda Arden,