Murder on orient express summery

Week B

Summary:

I am on page 37 of a total 69 pages.

The main event of chapter 3 and 4 that I read for this week is that detective Poirot started to interrogate every one of the passengers on the carriage where the murder of Mr Ratchett took place. During the interrogations that he did he was able to discover a lot of facts that helped him in his investigations. Nevertheless, some of the information that he got had increased his doubts about different persons to be engaged in the murder. In the main time he became more and more confused.  

Reflection:

• The decision that I find interesting and strange in the main time is the fact that detective Poirot kept delaying the interrogation of the Italian passenger to the end, even though Mr Bouc was requesting him again and again to call him for interrogation. I cannot judge if this decision is right or wrong. But what I strongly believe is that the intuitions of Poirot are guiding in the right direction.
• I don’t recall having experienced any personal experience related to this story. However, if it was me I would think about the closest people to me as a detective like Mr Bouc to be one of the main suspected persons in this crime. Maybe the friendship between Poirot and Bouc from one side, and that he is one of the first people to ask Poirot to investigate about this crime.
• Three new words:

1. I chose to take the overland route for reasons of my own.

Part of speech: Adjective.

Meaning: (of travel) across the land in a vehicle, on foot, or on a horse; not by sea or air:

1.  The woman with a sheep – like face and fair hair interred.

Part of speech: Adjective.

Meaning: well-behaved; submissive.

1.  Well, I told the conductor what had happened, and he didn’t seem to believe me.  

 Part of speech: noun.

Meaning: a person in charge of a train, streetcar, or other public conveyance, who collects fares and sells tickets

Week C:

Summary:  

• I am on page 51 out of total of 69 pages.
• The first important event that I can relate is that detective Poirot found that there has been a man on the train wearing the uniform of one of the conductors, and he has a voice of a woman. This discovery changed the direction of his interrogations and doubts about the suspected murderer.
• The second main event in this part of the story is that Mrs Hubbard had found a knife full of blood all over in her sponge bag.

Reflection:

Part A:

Chapter after another I am becoming more interested by this book. The mysterious aspect of the crime is attracting me to read more. It is very different than my first book about inventions. That one was more scientific and academic. I was able to understand 80% minimum of the text. When I picked up this book at the library I was looking for something related more to my culture or region other than to read this kind of books about mysterious crimes.

Part B:

• Agatha Christie was born in the south of England on 1890. She was one of the famous writers of murder mysteries. She did in 1976. Her books war translated into more than 45 languages. She produced 66 murder mystery novels. The most famous ones are: The murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), Murder on the Orient Express (1934), and death on the Nile (1937). Other than writing crime novels, Agatha Christie was interested in traveling. In the early 1920s she went around the world by sea with her first husband. Then in 1930 she traveled for several times on the Orient Express. The secret of her success, according the analysts, is that she used to write only about the world and people that she knows. For instance, we find the characters of rich Englishman and Englishwoman present in most of her novels. It is the reflection of the characters of her parents.  
• As will as a lot of analysts, I think that there is a strong connection between the personal live of Agatha Christie and most of her books. First of all she was married to Colonel Archibald Christie. Secondly, she works for a while is a hospital during the First World War. This gave her a wide experience in medicine. Finally, her travelling rich experience inspired her most of the characters and the scenes for her novels.

Week D:

Summary:

I have already finished the story. I was really shocked myself about the intelligence of detective Poirot. He wasable to relate all the indices, signs and evidences together in such a way that he discovered that the crime was done by all the passengers on the carriage in which Mr Ratchett was killed.  

Reflection:

First of all, Mr Poirot was not known by all the passengers in the train. Slowly more passengers

started to know him, especially when they were interrogated by him.  

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