Outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible, Agatha Christie has sold the third-most books at four billion worldwide (Facts about her life, n.d.). Many people ask how she was able to achieve this profound achievement. Clearly, her writing style and process are pivotal facets of this success. Agatha Christie crafted such famous mystery novels through her extensive planning, detailed and recognizable characters, and unexpected twists. Agatha’s extensive planning of her books led to the making of complex stories. One way she planned was by using notebooks to keep track of ideas and plots. She had over one hundred of these notebooks, of which seventy-three survived, and would write down an idea as soon as she thought of it (AgathaChristie.com, n.d.). The notebooks were a decisive part of her writing process and “show that stories didn’t spring forth … her famously writerly voice was entirely constructed” (Kenneally C., 2010, para. 12). She also slowly developed her plots over long periods of time to be able to work on them extensively. One reason for her slow development was that her writing style was very random, although it was how she worked best. For example, Agatha would not even start with who the murderer …show more content…
One way she did this was by making all of her plots different (Barnett D., 2017) with surprise endings that could still make sense of everything in the end (Kenneally C., 2010). Consequently, in almost every single one of her book endings, it is impossible to guess who the murderer is. Her stories make people ask important questions such as who did it and why they did it (Barnett D., 2017) as Christie’s characters were unpredictable and impossible to guess for the murderer. For instance, one of the narrators of her books is actually the murderer (Kenneally C., 2010). Her twist endings make all of her stories so much fun to read and hold one’s attention to the very
At only 17 years old Susan eloise hinton became one of the most successful authors of the 1960’s she broke the barriers of being a female writer by writing her award winning book the outsiders and is still one of the most popular writers of young adult fiction. Once published the outsiders gave her a lot of publicity and fame, and also a lot of pressure. She was becoming ¨the voice of the youth¨ The pressure of that title resulted in a 3 year writer 's block. Her boyfriend (and now, her husband),who had gotten sick of her being depressed all the time, eventually broke this block.
She was tired of reading books that were filled with clichés and fairy-tale endings. She wanted her readers to relate to the stories she wrote by using real
placed in their rooms and it was all meant to tie into the idea that the name of the island is Soldier Island. While the guests were relaxing in the drawing room after dinner The Voice came on accusing each of the guests of a crime but when they looked to see who was talking, they found nothing but a gramophone playing a record. After this, Mrs. Rogers, the butler’s wife, fainted but Tony Marston was the first to die. The Dr. Armstrong determined the cause of death was asphyxiation from drinking potassium cyanide.
Agatha Christie’s cherished novel Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a classic mystery which captures the hearts of readers. In this story, Dr. Sheppard assists detective Hercule Poirot as he deciphers clues in order to find out who killed Roger Ackroyd. Christie integrates plot, motifs, and tone into this story to captivate readers all around the world. First, Christie’s use of plot creates a logical series of events for the story to center around and connects the events; moreover, plot keeps exasperated readers from giving up on this novel due to lack of understanding. For instance, “Mrs. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September” (1).
She even got lost in her imagination, and was often found reading beside her
The question is who is the killer? With an original plot of the story, the author adds an exciting twist to the story with suspense. One way Christie builds suspense is through the following repeated punctuation: ellipsis and question marks. Additionally, the author portrays many flashbacks that the main characters are having as their death inches closer.
However, she had actually wanted to become an author, and, six months before finishing her studies, she began her writing career. She penned several short stories and submitted them to a literary agent. At his suggestion, she expanded one of
She didn’t grow up in a very wealthy family and wanted to go to college and be more educated than them. Although they all wrote in different ways and for different reasons, they all share the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for literature.
Then S.E Hinton decided that she wanted to be an author. Then became an amazing author that writes books about her high school life. S.E Susan Eloise is an American writer best known for her novels that she mad one of the most famous novels was the outsider, she wrote this novel during he years of high school. Many other different novels she wrote were rumble fish, Tex, that was then this is now.
Another point mentioned would be her loss of her first child. Around the time she lost her child you could imagine she was writing Frankenstein's monster trying to fit in but being shunned; turning to murder while she grieved her dead
Agatha Christie was one of the best macabre writers, she was encouraged to write, her characters are very famous and so is she. Agatha Christie was encouraged to write as a child.
DETECTIVE FICTION “ The term ‘Golden Age’ stands for a particular blessed era of crime writing” – Susan Rowland. Golden Age of Detective fiction is regarded as the period between World Wars I and II, an era of classic murder mystery novels of similar patterns and styles, predominantly in the 1920s and 1930s; however, classic novels had been written since 1911 and still, are being written. Most of the Golden Age writers are British, however, in America the genre of ‘Hard-Boiled’ fiction is dominant. In this age, the major theme is ‘whodunit’ or the ‘clue puzzles’ in which the reader solves the mystery of a codified game.
As is known about Agatha Christie, she always makes the reader interested in the novel that between his hands, her exciting way of writing, and her unique style, which raises the concentration of the reader and full senses to begin to think in mystery that implied between the lines and operated by the analysis of important events in the novel. All of that things make just trying to predict what will Agatha's stories talk about so difficult. Also, because they rely on the element of surprise in writing so that make you doubt of all the characters and end to be a neglected character in the novel is the real cause of the events. About my first impression I thought that it will be a murder story in a big family, their men are fighting for the money
Her new way of writing draws readers in and keeps them questioning every character. In Agatha's book ten very different characters are invited to Indian Island. Little do the readers know that these characters all have one thing in common. Agatha shows off her new way of writing through inner monologues, themes of inner animals, and unreliable narrators.
All characters are accused and redeemed of guilt but the murderer is still elusive. Much to the shock of the readers of detective fiction of that time, it turns out that the murderer is the Watson figure, and the narrator, the one person on whose first-person account the reader 's’ entire access to all events depends -- Dr. Sheppard. In a novel that reiterates the significance of confession to unearth the truth, Christie throws the veracity of all confessions contained therein in danger by depicting how easily the readers can be taken in by