6th Posting

I finished the book, and OMG. WOW. AMAZING. WONDERFUL. This book is the best!! The murder was more than a couple of people, like I predicted. It was all the passengers on the train. Most of the passengers of Orient Express were victims of some things lost by Rachette's deeds with Mr. Armstrong, and they were planning and training everything together to kill Rachette and avenge the Armstrongs.
I was very touched by the last chapter of this book. When everything was found out and their sentences were obvious, Mrs. Hubbard, who is taking the greatest part in this whole story, asks Mr. Poirot to let the others go and just arrest her alone. Even though it was cruel and wrong to murder a person, I still feel sympathy towards the murderers. While reading about the Armstrongs in the previous chapters, I found out that they just had to kill Ratchett. The feeling of having to do something that they know is wrong because it is tolerating is pretty awful, just from thinking about it.

5th Posting

I finished the Part 2 this time. All the clues that are there are discovered by now. It is time for Mr. Poirot to put them together and solve this case. I can feel it coming to an end because more and more connections between Rachette and the passengers are getting discovered.
I feel really glad because now something more interesting is about to happen. Who is the murderer? What is the importance of the scarf, pipe, etc.? In my opinion, I think there is more than one, probably several, murderer to this crime. I have no clue who those people are yet however.

4th Posting

I read the next four chapters this week. In those four chapters Poirot calls in specific people for more detailed inquiries. He gets more and more details and informations about this murder case, and the case gets deeper and deeper into oblivion.
There is absolutely no clue about the murderer yet. Small things of his doings are getting uncovered, but the clues do not match perfectly. I really wonder what new clues are going to get discovered, and what the identity of the murderer is.

3rd Posting

I read the next 4 chapters last week, until the 1st chapter of PART 2. I am currently loving this book. This is actually the first suspense, murder book that I read in my entire life, and I love it. There is this suspense all the time, and I cannot tell what is going to happen or whether the characters are telling the truth.
In the 4 chapters I read, Poirot is meeting the passengers one by one and asking each of them questions. Then he goes to Ratchett's compartment to look at the crime scene. There he finds some questionable things that leads him to think that there were many people involved in killing Ratchett. Then he hears some background informations about him.

2nd Posting

I read the next three chapters this time. Like I expected, things are getting more and more suspense and interesting. I love this book. Agatha Christie is one of the greatest bookwriter that I have ever known. Her writings, how she describe things, are adding more and more suspense to the story.
The murder that I was looking forward to finally happened in chapter 5. Like I expected, it was Ratchett who got murdered, the guy who came to Poirot the day before, saying that he might get murdered. I wonder about the plots to come. Who killed the guy? Why did the victim get stabbed 10 to 15 times, with different power? This is making me want to finish this book quickly.

1st Posting

I am reading the book "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie. I have only read the first 3 chapters last week. Though I just started it, I already started liking it: it's full of suspense from the beginning.
I like the way the author describes the characters and the situations. They are full of suspense and irony. The author already convinced me enough that this is going to be a good suspense, crime book from the first few chapters just by her ways of describing things. Her way of writing is making me want to read more and more. Too bad I have so much homework.
In chapter 2, the main character, Poirot, gets on the Orient Express. I can guess from the title of the book that there is going to be a murder happening on that train, and that he is going to solve the mystery of the incident. I wonder in what chapter the big event, in this case the murder, is going to happen, because I want to get to that chapter real soon.

Indirect Characterization

Okonkwo kills a white man because he was held as captive and was humiliated by them.
He was expecting his people to support him and stand up against the whites, but none of them did. Okonkwo just walks home alone without saying a word.
His sadness, the disappointments towards his people, his weakness, and the fact that he is becoming a failure like his dad made him want to commit suicide as a result.