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Murder On The Orient Express Analysis

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Expository Essay: The Murder on the Orient Express
From the beginning of human history, culture has been defined by the arts. The arts give people an understanding of culture at a given time, how people lived, and what their interests were. The Western Canon is a compilation of literature, art, and music that has the greatest influence on Western culture. This list contains only the best of the best in literature and any author that finds their book on this list is guaranteed to have had a great influence on western culture (“Classics and the Western Canon”). Due to the Western Canon being able to accurately recognize extraordinary literature from many texts, all members of the Canon are at the highest level of literature.
One book that deserves to be regarded as a member of the Western Canon is Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. The plot of this book is a murder mystery, …show more content…

This is a conversation that arises when reading Murder on the Orient Express. The debate about whether morality can rightfully trump the justice system and whether vigilante justice is an acceptable way of dealing with crime are controversial subjects of which many people are unsure how to respond to. Christie approaches this subject from the medium of a murder mystery novel (a genre that a wide-range of people enjoy) and includes a considerable amount of information about the specific case in the novel. Knowing all the information about the event, readers are able to decide for themselves whether or not the murder of Casetti was justified. This forces the reader to build a connection to the book, physically and mentally interacting with the author, who, when Poirot and his two sidekicks reveal that they support the murder and even lie to the Yugoslav police, covering up the murder, is shown to support vigilante justice (Christie

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