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Trace the shifts in tones (within the first chapter of this day’s reading. What does Christie achieve through that device?
This section also begins with humor, though more caustic than earlier, largely at the expense of Mrs. Hubbard and her brass Americanism. The tone then shifts to something more ominous (Poirot thinks to himself, “Decidedly I suffer from the nerves” [38]), then something more lighthearted among the travelers gathered in the dining car as “the communal life was felt, at the moment to pass the time better.” One might suggest it all comes to a boil at the end of Part I.
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What is Poirot’s apparent attitude toward the crime?
Poirot's...
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