https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65 Murder On The Orient Express - Agatha Christie en-us 2021-01-20 16:32:01 UTC 2025-09-26 16:39:53 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f50e.png mtaft22 https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1106531456 Similes, Metaphors, Personification, Hyperboles, Idioms]]> 2021-01-20 16:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1106531456 mtaft22 https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1106531460 Exposition, Conflict, Rising Actions, Climax, Falling Actions, Resolution]]> 2021-01-20 16:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1106531460 mtaft22 https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1106531462 -What do the characters say?
-What do the characters do?
-How do the characters react to each other?
-What do the characters look like?
-What do the characters think?]]> 2021-01-20 16:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1106531462 mtaft22 https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1106531464 First, "Remake" this Padlet. DO NOT EDIT THIS PADLET.  Enter your name and the title and author of your novel.  Ensure you click on "Copy Posts" and "Copy Design." Then, SHARE your Padlet with me (TMichaud@rochester3a.net). 
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Using this Padlet, you will collect evidence from your mystery novel that will help you write your essay.  In addition to listing your evidence, you will want to note what it is and why you are citing it.  Don't rely on your memory weeks from now when you begin to use your evidence and you can't remember why you listed it.  An example is in the second post under this column.

Remember, this is your prompt for the essay-
Analyze specific ways in which the author elicits feelings of terror and horror within the reader. Based on this analysis, how do terror and horror impact the novel as a whole?

Much like we are practicing the analysis of horror and terror in class through the author's writing, you will be doing the same here with your novel.

]]> 2021-01-20 16:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1106531464 mtaft22 https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1106531465 Evidence for Figurative Language
Personification from "A Vine on a House"

"...a long vine that covered half the front of the house and dangled its branches from the edge of the porch abvove them was visibly and audibly agitated, shaking violently..."
"...the vine was violently agitated while under the closest scrutiny..."

These two quotes personify the vine.  Giving them human-like characteristics makes the vine seem mysterious.  At the end of the story, the reader learns that the vine could be a representation of the wife, Mrs. Harding.  While a  shaking and agitated vine may not seem that important, knowing that Mrs. Harding may have been murdered by her husband makes the vine, her earthly representation, that much more ominous.  Perhaps the vine is shaking violently because Mrs. Harding, although dead, is traumatized by her own death.]]> 2021-01-20 16:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1106531465 mtaft22 https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1106531468 Flashback, Flash-forward, Symbolism, Tone, Allusion, Irony ]]> 2021-01-20 16:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1106531468 mtaft22 https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1107437016 Almost all of the story takes place on some kind of train, as different characters hop from line to line towards their destination. The murder occurs on the orient express, as per the title of the book. We are told towards the beginning that the train is frequently held up in this time of year due to snowstorms that sometimes last days. A stuck train on it's own isn't that scary, but when our favorite characters are stuck on it along with a more than capable murderer, that's when it turns into nightmare fuel. The passengers feel like fish stuck in a barrel.]]> 2021-01-20 19:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1107437016 mtaft22 https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1107573133 From the very first time we as readers meet the man known as "Ratchett", He is presented as a very dangerous man. Even when walking by the main character's friend, M. Bouc, he is compared to an animal hidden within a pleasant suit. We later find out he is a criminal and has many enemies, making his carrying of a pistol necessary. When the murder happens, the victim is none other than Ratchett himself. He is found stabbed to death in his compartment bedroom. because he is this dangerous criminal, we grow fearful that he was killed in such a hands-on manner, and also that whoever had the ability to end his life may still be on the train.]]> 2021-01-20 20:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1107573133 mtaft22 https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1107663610 As soon as the story begins, we are warned of snow storms further up the route. These storms could stop the train for days or even weeks if they do not let up. Because of the title of the book, we know that one such stoppage could provide an ample opportunity for foul play. One character, Mary Debenham, stays up on night only to watch the storm rage outside the train, unable to sleep because of her nervousness. The train doesn't stop for a while, letting us as readers sit in suspense, wondering when the train will stop, putting the passengers in danger.]]> 2021-01-20 20:38:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1107663610 mtaft22 https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1142138816 While interviewing the passengers of the train about the murder, none of their stories make any sense. No two people saw the same thing, and the passengers besides M. Bouc or Poirot all seem to have some kind of freindship or connection. ]]> 2021-01-29 19:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1142138816 mtaft22 https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1142174138 Even when the character dubbed as "Ratchett" is first introduced to us and the characters, he is written as if he will be a threat later on. He carries a pistol when the other passengers are assumed to be unarmed, and says that he has made many an enemy. He tells all of this to Poirot because he is, as he puts it, a man that can take care of himself but also knows that it never hurts to have a second person at your side. Given the title and nature of this book, this man is given a lot of attention - His very identity is a mystery to us until the murder.]]> 2021-01-29 19:21:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1142174138 mtaft22 https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1142322551 One of the passages in the book that cements Ratchett as a point of suspense and mystery is when Poirot and his partner run into him at the dining cart. Both Poirot and his partner M. Bouc agree that his seems to be a dangerous man. Bouc states that, when Ratchett walked past him, he felt as if he was near a wild animal, even though he looked to be a distinguished man.]]> 2021-01-29 19:59:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1142322551 mtaft22 https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1142377466 As Poirot and his crew of trusted men begin to put two and two together, they realize that there are only two possible options as to what happened and who murdered Ratchett. Either the killer came into the train and escaped in the same night, during a blizzard in the middle of nowhere, or everybody on the train is in on the killing. The terror and dread of that situation would be paralyzing. Poirot doesn't know what the passengers know. If they catch on, or have already caught on, then Poirot and his friends' lives are very in danger.]]> 2021-01-29 20:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1142377466 mtaft22 https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1142446919 Before the snowstorm hit, the train made a few stops at stations along the route. At every stop, a couple more persons of interest board the orient. With every stop, a new element is added to the already suspenseful story, with each being a potential suspect in the later murder.]]> 2021-01-29 20:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1142446919 mtaft22 https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1164809855 Ms. Debenham has been a person of much interest since the beginning of the story. Near the beginning, she says to her amirer Colonel Arbuthnot, "not until it has passed," as to why she wasn't going to sleep that night on the train. Before the murder, we assume that she is referring to the incoming storm. Later in the story, though, when Poirot is interviewing her she refuses to ellaborate on what she meant. She could be part of the murder scheme against Ratchett.]]> 2021-02-04 16:54:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1164809855 mtaft22 https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1165017545 Starting at the beginning of the novel, Arbuthnot gets into a sort of one-sided love interest with Ms. Debenham, and it shows when it comes time for the detective to interview the passengers after the murder. He grows protective of Debenham when she comes close to having her secret found out. She admits that she lied to the detective before, and this is when the colonel starts to shelter her and grow extremely angry with the investigating team.]]> 2021-02-04 17:29:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1165017545 mtaft22 https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1165086357 Princess Dragomiroff is a mysterious character throughout the story. Everybody on the train seems to do her bidding, showing some kind of previous connection. When Ratchett is murdered, the investigating team finds one of her hankerchiefs in the room/compartment the victim was murdered in. She asks for it back from Poirot, either not knowing where it came from or trying to tell others that she is ignorant to the evidence against her. This just mashes together with the many pieces of conflicting evidence already at the scene, serving only to confuse the reader and possibly incriminate the princess, her maid, and maybe even the whole list of passengers.]]> 2021-02-04 17:41:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1165086357 mtaft22 https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1165161596 A main issue that has caused much confusion in the investigation is the problem of the red kimono-wearing individual seen by some heading towards Ratchett's compartment in the middle of the night; this time is proved to be after the murder. Presumably this person might have went to the scene in order to break Ratchett's wristwatch to throw the investigators off of the actual time of the murder. Some passengers, when interviewed, claimed to have seen this person, while some others who should've been in the right position claimed to have seen nothing. Poirot and his team have been told many lies so far, and we have no way of telling if this is another tale spun by a scheming crew of murderers or just plain ingorance. ]]> 2021-02-04 17:53:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1165161596 mtaft22 https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1170291916 When we reach the end of the story, we uncover that Mary Debenham and Colonel Arbuthnot are in on the murder and were merely pretending to be strangers in the beginning. When the Colonel is overheard asking for Mary to get some good sleep, she responds with, thinking that nobody can hear her, "Not until it is done."]]> 2021-02-05 21:03:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mtaft22/gfkur3owwy8gvj65/wish/1170291916