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    When Committing Murder is Morally Justified There are many occasions when murders are committed and murderers are not brought to justice. In And Then There Were None and Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie the theme in the books is‚ the morality of murder - that murder can be right and morally justified. Both books illustrate that murders took place and that the individuals that committed theses murders got away with them. As a result‚ the surviving family‚ friends and others such

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    Prolific Writer

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    So‚ what it takes to be such a prolific writer? A highly prolific writer tends to work even when they’re not inspired which mean developing production habit. This can be achieved as they will set goals and accomplish them. For instance‚ Dame Agatha Christie who is a novelist with 722 books published. On average‚ she released one book for every 40 days of her career. Eventhough there will be distractions‚ but they will learn to ignore them and write. But how they do it? Most highly prolific writers

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    are made up of Progressive and Digressive Elements for the Purpose of Producing Suspense’. This essay demonstrates whether detective novels are composed backwards with progressive and digressive elements in order to produce suspense by looking at Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and And Then There Were None‚ and Josephine Tey’s The Franchise Affair. Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd presents a murder at the beginning of the novel‚ and the story—through its narrator and detective

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    Book Report 1. In the book‚ "The Unexpected Guest"‚ there are two main themes. The main themes are revenge‚ and love and hate. Revenge is a very important theme to the plot because Mr. Richard Warwick‚ the man killed‚ had ran over the little boy of a man who later comes back to kill him. Love and hate is also a theme. In this book‚ many people had a motive for murdering Warwick‚ but these people were his family and friends. The line between love and hate is broken when accusations arise. 2. The

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    And Then There Were None… This year‚ in English‚ I was required to read Agatha Christie’s famous mystery novel‚ “And Then There Were None…” When I first started reading‚ I didn’t really enjoy the book. The beginning of the novel was just character introductions and invitations to a suspenseful place called Indian Island. As the story began to progress‚ I found the book strangely intriguing. It was about the perfect murder. The interesting part of the novel is wondering who was committing the

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    aspect in a novel. Explain how Christie’s choice of setting is appropriate for her story. Go beyond the obvious! And Then There Were None Paragraph - Jada Kleinholz As stated in the topic prompt‚ the setting is a huge component in a novel. In Agatha Christie’s novel‚ And Then There Were None‚ the story is set on a small island with a large mansion; this island being the main setting affects the story in three main ways. The setting first influences the story when a group of people are individually

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    NAME OF BOOK OR SOURCE & FULL PUBLISH REFERENCE: TITLE: The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime AUTHOR: Judith Flanders PUBLISHER: Thomas Dunne Books-St. Martin’s Press PUBLISHING CITY: New York EDITION: First Edition DATE: July 23‚ 2013 ISBN-10: 1250024870 Q I. WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS HISTORICAL AREA AND THIS BOOK? At the library‚ I was recommended Judith Flander ’s The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in

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    Argumentative Essay – Response and Analysis “It’s time for genre writing to come in from the cold; to fly off their airport bookshelves and claim their rightful place in the English cannon.” ----------------------------------------------------- Writing has so many purposes‚ subjects‚ styles‚ and different experiences to give us. We‚ as readers‚ want the story; we want to go through the experiences the author is giving us. All authors (whether they are genre oriented or not) are able to

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    ‚ and they have to have done something to the murderer/s to make him/her want to kill him/her. Agatha Christie‚ the famous author of the great novel And Then There Were None‚ did not prove this rule‚ because Justice Wargrave did not know any of the victims personally and he did not care about the people‚ only the act of the perfect crime. The fact that Justice

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    A Murdur Is Announced

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    A Murder Is Announced A Murder Is Announced is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1950 and in the US by Dodd‚ Mead and Company in the same month. The UK edition retailed at eight shillings and sixpence (8/6) and the US edition at $2.50.] The novel features her detective Miss Marple and is considered a crime novel classic. The book was heavily promoted upon publication in 1950 as being Christie’s fiftieth book‚ although

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