Biography (English Task)
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie was an English writer. She is widely known for her detective novels. Particularly novels about Hercule Poirot and Miss Maple. She was born on September 15 (same as me), 1890 and died on January 12, 1976. Guinness World Record lists her as the best-selling novelist of all time, around 2 billions copies sold.
During the First World War, she served in a Devon Hospital, and during the Second World War, she worked as an assistant pharmacy. She was initially an unsuccessful writer, receiving six consecutive rejections. This changed when The Mysterious Affair at Styles featuring Hercule Poirot, was published in 1920. Hercule Poirot was a former Belgian police officer noted for his twirly large "magnificent moustaches" and egg-shaped head. Poirot had taken refuge in Britain after Germany invaded Belgium. Christie's inspiration for the character stemmed from real Belgian refugees who were living in Torquay and the Belgian soldiers whom she helped to treat as a volunteer nurse in Torquay during the First World War.
Christie's reputation as "The Queen of Crime" was built upon the large number of classic motif that she introduced, or for which she provided the most famous example. Christie built these tropes into what is now considered classic mystery structure: a murder is committed, there are multiple suspects who are all concealing secrets, and the detective gradually uncovers these secrets over the course of the story, discovering the most shocking twists towards the end. Culprits in Christie's mysteries have included children, policemen, narrators, already deceased individuals, and sometimes comprise no known suspects or all of the suspects.
Christie occasionally inserted stereotyped descriptions of characters into her work, particularly before the end of the Second World War (when such attitudes were more commonly expressed publicly), and particularly in regard to Italians, Jews, non-Europeans, and sometimes Americans. For example, she described "Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery " in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr.Quin (1930), in the short story "The Soul of the Croupier"; in later editions, the passage was edited to describe "sallow men" wearing same.
5. Why Agatha Christie resisted the temptation to kill Hercule Poirot?
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Agatha Christie was an English writer. She is widely known for her detective novels. Particularly novels about Hercule Poirot and Miss Maple. She was born on September 15 (same as me), 1890 and died on January 12, 1976. Guinness World Record lists her as the best-selling novelist of all time, around 2 billions copies sold.
During the First World War, she served in a Devon Hospital, and during the Second World War, she worked as an assistant pharmacy. She was initially an unsuccessful writer, receiving six consecutive rejections. This changed when The Mysterious Affair at Styles featuring Hercule Poirot, was published in 1920. Hercule Poirot was a former Belgian police officer noted for his twirly large "magnificent moustaches" and egg-shaped head. Poirot had taken refuge in Britain after Germany invaded Belgium. Christie's inspiration for the character stemmed from real Belgian refugees who were living in Torquay and the Belgian soldiers whom she helped to treat as a volunteer nurse in Torquay during the First World War.
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Christie's reputation as "The Queen of Crime" was built upon the large number of classic motif that she introduced, or for which she provided the most famous example. Christie built these tropes into what is now considered classic mystery structure: a murder is committed, there are multiple suspects who are all concealing secrets, and the detective gradually uncovers these secrets over the course of the story, discovering the most shocking twists towards the end. Culprits in Christie's mysteries have included children, policemen, narrators, already deceased individuals, and sometimes comprise no known suspects or all of the suspects.
Christie occasionally inserted stereotyped descriptions of characters into her work, particularly before the end of the Second World War (when such attitudes were more commonly expressed publicly), and particularly in regard to Italians, Jews, non-Europeans, and sometimes Americans. For example, she described "Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery " in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr.Quin (1930), in the short story "The Soul of the Croupier"; in later editions, the passage was edited to describe "sallow men" wearing same.
She was an amazing author regarding detectives story, no surprises as she looked up to Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, and they formed an unlikely duo although there's not a single record about them talking to each other. However, unlike Conan Doyle, Christie resisted the temptation to kill her detective off while he was still popular. She saw herself as an entertainer whose job was to produce what the public liked, and the public liked Poirot.
I chose Agatha Christie because I love reading detectives stories or novels, I aspire to be a better writer and can write my own detective stories.
Questions:
1. What was the first novel that Agatha Christie published?
2. What was the charateristic of Hercule Poirot?
3. How Agatha Christie become "The Queen of Crime"?
4. Who was the inspiration behind Hercule Poirot?1. What was the first novel that Agatha Christie published?
2. What was the charateristic of Hercule Poirot?
3. How Agatha Christie become "The Queen of Crime"?
5. Why Agatha Christie resisted the temptation to kill Hercule Poirot?
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