Summer Reading Dialectical Journal

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Summer Reading 1) The book begins describing the main character as he talks to a French lieutenant. He is about to get on a train called the Taurus express. His name is Hercule Poirot the famous detective, but he is not working a case, not yet anyways. On the train it is very quiet with only two other people, Mary Debenham and colonel Arbuthnot. Then when Poirot gets off the train and arrives at the hotel, and very quickly receives a letter summoning him back to London. Soon after he runs into his old friend M.Bouc who is the, director of compagnie Internationale des wagons lits, and offer to give him a ride back to London on the Orient Express. Once he gets on train he notices that there are so many people on the train and all very different in nationality, which for that time of year is very odd. Then at one point one of the passengers Mr. Rachett asks for his help and says that someone is threating him and asks for his help, Poirot not knowing many details obviously declines the offer and also asks to be moved to a different place on the train. That same night that Poirot refuses Mr. Ratchett’s offer he is murdered. The next morning Poirot is informed of the murder and the Doctor tells him that the…show more content…
He is a retired police officer and now does all his work as a private detective who works on specials cases. He is the protagonist of the story and has to figure out what happened after Ratchett is murdered and single handedly takes on the case. Poirot being and extremely good detective searched everything. He is incredibly smart and pretty quickly begins to pick up on what is happening on the train. By the end of the novel he has figured out what happened but is not sure in that would be the right way to approach everyone about it. he also decides that it would be better off for everyone if they lied to policed and all agreed that some random man must have come in while the train was stopped and murdered
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