...Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Christie DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections (especially those featuring Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple), and her successful West End plays. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly four billion copies, and her estate claims that her works rank third, after those of William Shakespeare and the Bible, as the most widely published books.[1] According to Index Translationum, Christie is the most translated individual author, with only the collective corporate works of Walt Disney Productions surpassing her.[2] Her books have been translated into at least 103 languages.[3] Agatha Christie published two autobiographies: a posthumous one covering childhood to old age; and another chronicling several seasons of archaeological excavation in Syria and Iraq with her second husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan. The latter was published in 1946 with the title, Come, Tell Me How You Live. Christie's stage play The Mousetrap holds the record for the longest initial run: it opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on 25 November 1952 and as of 2011 is still running after more than 24,000 performances. In 1955, Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery...
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...Essay Structure: Agatha Christie By: Nastaran Date: June 26th, 2014 The Agatha Christie essay is very organized, and carries the information in a excellent flow and structure. The topic sentences and the body of the essay went well with the thesis statement. There are several aspects that you need to keep in mind when writing an essay; catching the reader's attention such as writing a challenging question which the essay starts with, "who does not enjoy a good mystery story?" this question, motivates a reader's attention of concern. There should not be unnecessary sentences: straight to the point, but well developed paragraphs. Stay within topic, each paragraph needs to have a single idea that supports your thesis and still have excellent flow. The essay has a great introduction, it maintains the "triangle standing on its point" structure, meaning that the writer moved from general to specific. The writer went from people enjoying "mystery stories", to Agatha Christie's, "strong characters, her interesting settings, and her strong morality." As I read on I am more intrigued to find out more. The body paragraphs are in the same order as the thesis statement, each paragraph with supporting examples, details, and opinions. In the first body paragraph, the writer compares Christie with other writers, creating more anticipation for the readers. Next, the second body paragraph describes interesting setting where Christie's characters are found. The last paragraph...
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...The Enduring Appeal of Agatha Christie was written very well, it is well-organized and carries the information in a order that helps the readers understand and enjoy the work. The introduction starts with the question “Who does not enjoy a good mystery?” this method is used to grasp the readers’ attention, also known as the ‘hook’. The paragraph uses both general and specific topics to guide the reader, by stating different authors it effectively influences a diverse group of readers, thus creating an organized path to the thesis that is very eye-catching and distinguished in the paragraph. After reading the introduction which was very bold, the thesis is supported the body paragraphs very well by providing examples of Christie’s works and how they relate to her in the exact same order given in the introduction. First, he explains Agatha Christie’s characters in the body paragraph 1; in the second body paragraph, he gives examples of her interesting settings. Finally in the last body paragraph, his opinion is given on Agatha Christie’s morality. Also, the writer put enough examples and detail to support each point he had to make. Linking the paragraphs together, the body paragraphs allow uniformity and induce the opinion of the essay. By doing this, the readers are heavily convinced that Christie is really the “Queen of Crime”. Following the body paragraphs is the conclusion, which is begun with a specific topic that broadens at the end. A reverse effect from the...
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...Dedicated to the School Boards decision on letting this book be read to students, The book “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie is a masterful murder mystery that takes a dark view of justice. It tells of ten guests who visit Soldier Island and how a murderer uses a nursery rhyme to plan the visitors' deaths one by one each different ways, including shooting, drowning, poisoning, and hanging. Even with it being a murder novel there are key points in the book that will be beneficial to read. One of the ideas the author gives is the effects of guilt. And that you can’t run away from your past. With all of the victims being criminals, they each had their own personal story that they were trying to keep hidden. She also explores...
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...Agatha Christie was a writer of mystery novels. Throughout her lifetime, Agatha wrote eighty-six books (Christie, 1944). Agatha Christie had many influences in her life that led to her writing her novels as well as making a significant contribution to literature. These influences also made her books beloved by generations. Agatha Christie made her own contribution to literature by adding into her writing her religious beliefs, basing characters off people she knew, and using her own personal experiences as inspiration. Agatha Christie’s religious beliefs were shown throughout her murder mystery novels. Agatha Christie was a Christian and therefore expressed Christian views. Her early life reflected Christ through her actions. Early in her...
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...interior a polychrome Gothic Revival extravaganza by J. G. Crace, would provide the fictional setting for a number of Agatha Christie’s novels. It appears as Rutherford Hall in 4.50 From Padding-ton; in After the Funeral, it is described as ‘a proper old mausoleum'; masquerading as Stonygates in They Do It With Mirrors, it’s dismissed as a ‘sort of Gothic monstrosity… Best Victorian Lavatory period’. She remembered its ‘quantities of rooms, passages, unexpected steps, back staircases, front staircases, alcoves, niches’. The young Agatha loved Abney Hall. It was the married home of her sister Madge, 11 years Agatha’s senior. It also inspired Agatha’s first novel. The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in which it vied for attention with the first appearance of her Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot, was published 90 years ago. The author had recently celebrated her 30th birthday. Ten years later, in The Murder at the Vicarage, she produced her first full-length novel to feature ‘a white-haired old lady with a gentle, appealing manner’-Miss Jane Marple. In the same year, she also published the first of her non-detective novels, Giant’s Bread, written under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. For aficionados of the author, 2010 is a year of special anniversaries. Agatha owed more to her sister Madge than happy memories of lavish Christmases at Abney. Without her taunting, Agatha might never have turned her hand to detective fiction and thus never have entered the record books as the best-selling...
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...“And Then There Were None” is a well written and engaging novel by Agatha Christie. I am not one who enjoys reading mystery novels, but this book was unlike the ones I have read because this book was written from the point of views of different characters. Using this contrast of characters was clever because as the reader I was hooked and curious about what could occur next. At the beginning of the story I was lost. All the story mentioned were characters, and I found that to be boring. Though when the old record player had begun to accuse each guest in the house of murder, naming the victim and the date of each guest’s crime committed, I was sure that what occurs next it will be a punishment for each guest. When each guest said that they all had received a letter from someone, they all figured out they were from UN-OWEN. At first, I had thought that UN-OWEN was Mr. Rogers because when his wife died he did not show any sympathy, as well Mr. Rogers was the one who had put the record in the record player. Though when Mr. Rogers died I knew he wasn’t the killer. Then my second suspicion was Justice Lawrence Wargrave. He had said that the killer was one of the guests, and Wargrave also kept insisting that everyone do something. After when Wargrave died I was not sure who was the killer....
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...And Then There Were None Essay Agatha Christie said, “One little indian boy left all alone; he went and hanged himself and then there were none.” When 10 people leave to go to Indian Island, by the end of the book none are alive, and nobody knew who did it. In the novel And Then There Were None, written by Agatha Christie the main mystery elements uses were: main conflict, characterization, setting, and the author's way of building the clues. As you read the novel, the main conflict in And Then There Were None is person versus person, or the characters die one by one and nobody could figure out who the killer was. When the characters (Wargrave, Vera, Lombard, Brent, Macarthur, Armstrong, Marsten, Blore, Mr. Rogers, and Mr. Rogers) first arrived on the island, they all meet for dinner....
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...In the novel Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, the author tone towards the story is dramatic The story takes place on an island where all the characters in the book are sent to an island to a’ special resort’ but turns out to be a trap to kill all the characters. Agatha Christie shows this town when one of the main characters, Mr. Blore gets warmed by someone on the street warming him the day of judgement is upon him. The author illustrates "Watch and pray. The day of judgment is at hand." He collapsed through the doorway onto the platform. From a recumbent position he looked up at Mr. Blore and said with immense dignity: "I'm talking to you, young man. The day of judgment is very close at hand." Subsiding onto his seat Mr. Blore thought to himself: "He's nearer the day of judgment than I am!"...
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...The Enduring Appeal of Agatha Christie This essay effectively follows the correct order of writing an essay; the introduction, the body paragraphs and the conclusion. The introduction starts off well with a question to hook the reader. The introduction resembles a triangle standing on its point in that the general ideas narrow into a specific focus. The general ideas refer to mystery stories and it narrows into why the writer believes Agatha’s novels are appreciated because of her strong characters, her interesting settings and her strong morality. This is also the thesis which is very effective and successful in portraying the three methods of development for the body of the essay. One downfall to the introduction is that there should be a concluding statement following the thesis. The topic sentences in each body paragraph are very well written to catch the reader’s attention, introducing the arguments with effectiveness, creating flow. Although, they do not link the paragraph to the paragraph that came before. I did not like that most of the sentences in each paragraph are all long. Too many sentences with the same structure and length can grow monotonous for readers. Each paragraph has good explanations and references to different characters that Agatha has written about, to prove the thesis. The writer begins the body with a strong argument and also ends with a strong argument leaving the weaker argument for the middle which is effective. The conclusion of this essay...
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...She is one of the best-known crime writers of all time but few know the extent of Agatha Christie's archaeological pedigree. Married in 1930 to eminent archaeologist Max Mallowan, Christie spent two decades living on excavation sites in the Middle East, writing her crime novels and helping out with her husband's work. Travel by boat and on the Orient Express to far-flung places such as Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad inspired some of Christie's best-known works of detective fiction, including "Murder on the Orient Express," "Death on the Nile," and "Murder in Mesopotamia." Now, 3,000-year-old ivory artifacts recovered by Mallowan between 1949 and 1963 from the ancient city of Nimrud, in what is now Iraq, and likely cleaned by his famous wife using cotton wool buds and face cream, go on display Monday at the British Museum in London. Nimrud was a city in the Assyrian kingdom, which flourished between 900-612 B.C.. The ivories found by Mallowan and his team were originally made in what is now Syria and Lebanon and brought to Assyria as looted treasures. John Curtis, keeper of the Middle East collections at the British Museum says they make up "the finest collection of ancient carved ivories that have ever been found at an archaeological excavation" and are in good condition, possibly because of Christie's efforts. "Face cream in fact is quite a good thing to clean (artifacts) with. Obviously conservators now wouldn't use that but I don't think it's done (the pieces)...
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...The essay, The Enduring Appeal of Agatha Christie was very well written, and used a clear essay structure; following the order of writing. The introduction starts with the question “Who does not enjoy a good mystery?” which is a good method to grasp the readers’ attention. The paragraph guides from general to specific ideas, such as stating different authors to effectively influence a diverse group of readers, and creates an organized path to the thesis that is very eye-catching and prominent in the paragraph. After a bold introduction, the body paragraphs support the thesis by providing examples of Christie’s works and how they related to her in the same order that was given in the introduction. Linking the paragraphs together, body paragraphs allow uniformity and evoke the opinion of the essay. By doing this, the readers are heavily convinced that Christie is really the “Queen of Crime”. Following the body paragraphs is the conclusion, which begins with a specific topic that broadens at the end. This is a reverse effect from the introduction. Instead of repeating the thesis, the conclusion of this essay briefly outlines the supportive points for the opinion and expands by relating her success to everyday life. Readers can reach an agreement at this point in the essay and because the conclusion speaks to a wide, diverse group of readers. In a sense, this gives the reader an “awe” effect, ending with a nicely encapsulated essay. The effectiveness of essay structure has clearly...
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...And Then There Were None: Suspense The novel, And Then There Were None, is a murder mystery written by Agatha Christie. In the story, ten guests were invited to Indian Island by an unknown person to ultimately be held accountable for past crimes that were beyond the court of law. Agatha Christie builds suspense in her story through the creative use of ominous setting, mysterious characters, and foreshadowing disastrous events. Agatha Christie creates suspense throughout the story with different elements of setting. In the dining room in the center of the table there are ten china figures resting on a glass stand. “In the center of the round table, on a circular glass stand, were some little china figures. “‘Indians.’” Said Tony. “‘Indian Island. I suppose that’s the idea.’” (Christie 29). Throughout the story one china figure is removed for every death of the characters creating suspense. In addition to setting, the author builds suspense through the use of characters. A hand that smelled like the sea touched Vera, scaring her. The narrator states, “She had heard something - surely she had heard something… And then, as she stood there, listening - a cold, clammy hand touched her throat - a wet hand, smelling the of the sea… Vera screamed. She screamed and screamed - screams of the utmost terror - wild desperate cries for help.”...
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...The Agatha Christie Essay Sept 25th 2015 To start off, I enjoyed how the author started the essay with a question. In my opinion the first sentence has to capture the readers attention, because it is giving the first impression on how well the essay is written. In the body paragraphs I found it rather impressive on how well the author concluded each paragraph. I know personally I struggle at ending a thought, causing myself to run on a bit. The writer, each time a paragraph ended he/she would include something like “Christie” this or Christie that. Trying to keep that linkage between the body paragraphs. The writer makes it very clear about the characters they are talking about. The writer doesn’t use the word “they”, making sure to include each characters name. I am not familiar with the book that was being talked about, however I found it very clear and easy to follow. I understood what was going on and could picture the book just from how the writer was describing it. However I did notice that the writer tended to use the phrase “In Christies world” or “In Christies novel”. It would have been a bit more beneficial and exciting for the author to use other words instead of those boring same old same old. Maybe refer to her as Agatha for a change or “ Christie proved in her novel that……” It is always good to include little changes like that to keep the reader interested. If they are hearing the same words over again it is more likely they will...
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..."It is perfectly clear. Mr. Owen is one of us….” (Christie 150). These famous words from Agatha Christie’s novel, And Then There Were None, would define the murder mystery genre for generations to come. Her use of many literary devices, such as foreshadowing, symbolism, and similes, allowed her to truly express herself. Agatha Christie utilized the gramophone as foreshadowing for the identity of the killer, the 10 solider boys as a motif for the characters’ deaths, and the seaweed as a symbol of guilt and regret all to add suspense to her novel, And Then There Were None. The gramophone in Agatha Christie’s novel, And Then There Were None, foreshadowed who among them was Mr. Owen, thus adding suspense to the story. Near the beginning of the book, all of the characters gather to eat dinner, when suddenly a...
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