Picture 1- “So class‚ there is a very important riddle I would like to ask you today?” Mr.Purple said with an enthusiastic voice. “Acting on an anonymous phone call‚ the police raid a house suspecting a murder. They don’t know what the murderer look like but they do know that his name is John. When they get to the house they see a carpenter‚ a truck driver‚ a mechanic‚ and a fireman. Without hesitation the police immediately arrest the fireman. How do they know they’ve got the right man?” Mr. Purple
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• Mark Haddon made the chapters of this book only prime numbers instead of the traditional consecutive numbers. • Chapter 2: The Night It All Began. This chapter is about the night he finds Wellington dead in Mrs. Shear’s yard. • Chapter 7: A Murder Mystery Novel. In chapter seven Christopher establishes the fact his book will be a murder mystery‚ and he explains that he likes murder mysteries which is why his book will be one. • Chapter 19: Unorthodox Chapters. Here‚ Christopher points out his
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In a book series entitled “I Survived” there was once a book written where a summary would sound ridiculous. This summary would be along the lines of‚ once there was a family of four including a father‚ mother‚ sister‚ and brother. The sister a mere six years old had been a genius in finance and accounting. Her brother‚ around eleven years older than her‚ had however not been a genius. The events of this book were as follows; first there was a family vacation with a hotel under construction‚ next
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Being released just a mere three years apart‚ both Harry Brown (Dir. by Daniel Barber‚ 2009) and Ill Manors (Dir. by Ben Drew‚ 2012) provide a thought provoking insight to twenty-first century Britain. Such ‘crime action dramas’ have long been a part of British film culture‚ from Hitchcock’s 1929 picture Blackmail to 1996’s Trainspotting (Dir. by Danny Boyle)‚ they all aim portray the lives of those ‘living with crime’ as well as their inevitable consequences. The two aforementioned contemporary
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Brooklyn Cop‚ by Norman MacCaig is a poem about an American policeman and the daily dangers he faces. The cop appears to be a savage yet we are later made aware of his underlying vulnerability. New York’s reputation of violence and crime leads to our awareness of the cop’s fear of not returning home to his wife. ... We are first made aware of the cop’s intimidating appearance in the first line‚ of the first stanza when MacCaig uses the simile "built like gorilla." This gives us a very negative and
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53 Days by Georges Perec is an exciting murder mystery that has a rollercoaster of different aspects and plot twists. 53 Days is about a teacher who is assigned the task to help solve the mystery of an outspoken author who has suddenly disappeared. However‚ the book is not finished because the writer died before he could finish it‚ but left detailed notes of his planned 28 chapters. I recommend this book for young adults and readers who have a sweet tooth for a murder mystery. A normal teacher
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gender and sexuality in science fiction we must first agree that women and men are inherently of equal worth‚ as many writers of feminist science fiction use the genre’s position to discuss issues of change‚ injustice‚ and social partitions (Calvin). The motif of gender and sexuality in science fiction is not restricted to just one subgenre of science fiction but shows up in nearly all varieties‚ creating hybrids in the science fiction world. The genre of science fiction alone is constantly changing
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Pulp Fiction was originally magazines with tales about bigger than life characters solving crimes or rescuing a damsel in distress. The stories were written on “pulp” which was the cheapest paper available in the 1930’s and 40’s. The low price and exotic new stories drew in readers like moths to a flame. The stories were filled with violence‚ risqué scenes with women‚ and drug use all too off the wall to be published by the major outlets of the time. But some authors like H. P. Lovecraft and Ray
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Compare and Contrast There are many comparisons between the "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter." The stories are similar in the fact that they are both investigative stories. Also the stories both include an unnamed narrator‚ along with the investigative mind of C. Auguste Dupin. The similarities between the two stories are abundant. One of the comparisons between "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and the "Purloined Letter" is the use of an unnamed narrator. In both stories
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It is my belief that although Poe’s Dupin‚ in The Purloined Letter‚ and Hammet’s Spade‚ in The Maltese Falcon both have very unique qualities‚ they both share very similar moral codes. These codes of morality‚ they would like to believe‚ have no bearing on the world or society around them. They both follow their own moral standards and do not follow what is expected of them. As Spade repeatedly suggests that honesty and loyalty are not what he is concerned about. As it occurs in both cases‚ Dupin
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