https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p By Agatha Christie en-us 2022-05-10 17:58:45 UTC 2025-11-13 21:37:16 UTC hello@padlet.com jbrussard2022 https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2178072828 Agatha Christie is most famously known for her 66 novels and 14 short stories, focused around a certain mystery that needs solving. From a very early age, Christie had a love for reading, as she taught herself to read at the age of 5. She grew up in the midst of World War 1 and that is when she started her writing career. Her first book, "The Mysterious Affair at the Styles" had characters that was largely based on people she saw around her. The book became so popular due to her description of the murderer's use of poison, that when the book was eventually published Agatha received an unprecedented honour for a writer of fiction - a review in the Pharmaceutical Journal. People knew her as a "person who listened more than she talked, who saw more than she was seen". She did, however, find herself in her own mystery as she went MIA for approximately 11 days. There was an extensive man-hunt for her and only her car showed up a couple days later. She was then recognised at a hotel that she was staying at, under the name of her husband mistress. She claimed to have no recollection of ending up there and never talked about it with any of her friends and family. This episode calls into consideration the line of fiction and reality for Christie. She then went onto write dozens more novels after divorcing her husband, Archie, shortly after her disappearance.

]]> 2022-05-10 18:00:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2178072828 jbrussard2022 https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2178076004 The Orient Express departed in December of 1935 from Istanbul, Turkey and scheduled to arrive in London. The novels begins with "It was five o'clock on a winter's morning in Syria," which presents the reader with a specific time, place and most importantly, the weather. This is an important part of the book because Hercule Poirot can infer that the murderer is still on the train due to the lack of footprints outside the snowed down train. ]]> 2022-05-10 18:02:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2178076004 jbrussard2022 https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2178081133 The first murder that is mentioned in the Murder on the Orient Express is that of Daisy Armstrong, a five year old who was kidnapped for ransom and then murdered. As a result of this, her pregnant mother dies of complications, her father kills himself, and a maid under suspicion also commits suicide. However, this brilliant writing by Christie is not completely from her own imagination. The Armstrong case is strongly inspired by the kidnapping of two year old Charles Lindbergh Jr., that happened two years prior to the book being published. Daisy, mirroring the Lindbergh case, was the child of a wealthy family and was taken from her room in the night. The support staff in the Lindbergh case was also highly suspicious, and as mentioned in the book, that individual eventually committed suicide after facing so much hate and rash from everyone, only to later be deemed not guilty. I do think this was a very strategic move to reference the Charles Lindbergh case as Daisy Armstrong as it was still fresh in the news at the time which game each of the readers a real like connection to the book. ]]> 2022-05-10 18:06:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2178081133 jbrussard2022 https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2178081581 This piece of art is a sketch of the original, real life Orient Express. I found it very interesting that Christie decided to use a train franchise that began operation in 1883 and existed when the book was being published. ]]> 2022-05-10 18:06:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2178081581 jbrussard2022 https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2178081867 This poem written by Christie in 1973, describes a serine picnic. It can be interpreted that she is coming to terms with the life that she lived and never lost any sense of her good life. I think that this ideology is important when it comes to Christies writing because she stayed consistent with her writing which meant fans continued to love every new book that she published. Out of all of the poems that I read, I liked this one the best because it is from her point of view and she is the one telling the story, unlike her other dozens of books that have the inner monolog Hercule Poirot. ]]> 2022-05-10 18:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2178081867 jbrussard2022 https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2178082637 Christie got most of her inspiration writing, through the world that she knew and saw. She recorded in her notebooks the general plot and the important key, clues before she actually started writing the book. She found that starting with the subtle descriptions, made the grand scheme of the plot fall into place a lot faster. Christie was recorded to have "endless notes in dozens of notebooks" and in an autobiography said "I used to make notes in them of ideas that struck me, or about some poison or drug, or a clever little bit of swindling that I had read about in the paper". ]]> 2022-05-10 18:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2178082637 jbrussard2022 https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2178082795 A common development in Christies novels was the psychological struggles that were experienced by characters who appeared to be crossing a stage. Christie had a tendency to unfold certain scenes where the reader thinks they know what is happening, when in actuality, she goes in an entirely different direction. It was said her story were written so meticulously and so well that the readers felt as if they were watching the book in a play. This also helps the flow and the appeal to read her future works ]]> 2022-05-10 18:07:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2178082795 jbrussard2022 https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2178092347 How did Agatha keep her readers engaged after decades of writing? ]]> 2022-05-10 18:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2178092347 jbrussard2022 https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2181710812 2022-05-12 17:58:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2181710812 jbrussard2022 https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2196878909 2022-05-24 02:49:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jbrussard2022/ebvpvkrsi7gz2d4p/wish/2196878909