The Law and Jury System in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
The Law and Jury System in Murder on the Orient Express
The law and jury system probably is not something that you would consider important while reading Murder on the Orient Express. You probably wouldn't even think about it, unless you're thinking about the punishment that the murderer would endure. However at the end of the novel when you find out how much it impacted the novel you would be amazed. The book took place on the Orient Express, on the Istanbul-Calais coach where a man was killed in his sleep. The story also had to do with a case that took place in America, where a little girl Daisy Armstrong was taken from her home, held for ransom, but then killed after the ransom was paid. Throughout the book, Detective Poirot is trying to solve this mysterious case. The Jury system was found in the number of people who helped in the murder, the idea of how he was killed, and what Poirot and Monsieur Bouc decided to tell yugoslav police. The first thing I noticed that was important and having to do with the law and jury concept, was that there were 12 people. In the book all 13 of the passengers had something to do with the murder of Daisy Armstrong, her maid who committed suicide, Daisies’ mother who died giving birth to a premature baby, or her father who shot himself because he was so broken-hearted. In a jury there are 12 people that decide the fate of the convict, and on the Orient Express the passenger appointed themselves as a jury ; to decide the fate of despicable Samuel Ratchett aka Cassetti. So all of the passengers, with the exception of one, Countess Andrenyi who was innocent, helped with the murder of Ratchett, it “Made it more in order” as Colonel Arbuthnot put it. I think that all of the passengers agreed because they all believed that the Armstrong case deserved justice. In the story we find out that Casetti had done this other times. We the readers learn this when Mrs. Hubbard said “There had been other children before Daisy-There
The law and jury system probably is not something that you would consider important while reading Murder on the Orient Express. You probably wouldn't even think about it, unless you're thinking about the punishment that the murderer would endure. However at the end of the novel when you find out how much it impacted the novel you would be amazed. The book took place on the Orient Express, on the Istanbul-Calais coach where a man was killed in his sleep. The story also had to do with a case that took place in America, where a little girl Daisy Armstrong was taken from her home, held for ransom, but then killed after the ransom was paid. Throughout the book, Detective Poirot is trying to solve this mysterious case. The Jury system was found in the number of people who helped in the murder, the idea of how he was killed, and what Poirot and Monsieur Bouc decided to tell yugoslav police. The first thing I noticed that was important and having to do with the law and jury concept, was that there were 12 people. In the book all 13 of the passengers had something to do with the murder of Daisy Armstrong, her maid who committed suicide, Daisies’ mother who died giving birth to a premature baby, or her father who shot himself because he was so broken-hearted. In a jury there are 12 people that decide the fate of the convict, and on the Orient Express the passenger appointed themselves as a jury ; to decide the fate of despicable Samuel Ratchett aka Cassetti. So all of the passengers, with the exception of one, Countess Andrenyi who was innocent, helped with the murder of Ratchett, it “Made it more in order” as Colonel Arbuthnot put it. I think that all of the passengers agreed because they all believed that the Armstrong case deserved justice. In the story we find out that Casetti had done this other times. We the readers learn this when Mrs. Hubbard said “There had been other children before Daisy-There