What Ideas and Values Reflected in and Through Your Texts, and How Do These Texts Challenge the Conventions and Values for the Traditional Crime Story?
What ideas and values reflected in and through your texts, and how do these texts challenge the conventions and values for the traditional crime story?
The purpose of each text and stylistic features
Many crime fiction texts are produced to reflect and explore certain aspects of different societies, and developed conventions have allowed the development of the hard-boiled school. The Golden Age of crime fiction tends to focus on the plot, the setting and the intricate method of detection, while the hard boiled relies more on force and “gut-feelings” than ingenuity. The setting change from locked room conventions to large cities and massive chaos after the crime, taking the reader through a journey of what people envisaged as the experience of America’s exciting cities. The 100th Man houses many classic hard-boiled conventions, but contemporary versions have evolved to suit its culture, e.g instead of living in a rundown office with a type-writer and women seeking aid, the protagonist lives in a modest (but not run down) house near the beach, where women come, but requiring help in a different manner.
Purpose is to satirize conventional crime-fiction genre and does so through parodying The Mousetrap. An example is making the radio extremely specific when it comes to the where-abbots of the criminal, directly relating to the radio in the Mousetrap when it describes the clothes of the suspect which Giles Ralston is wearing, while in the real Inspector Hound the suffix (ish) is added for comic effect and paradoy.
However in The Real Inspector Hound the body isn’t discovered for much of the play, an unusual convention in itself, but also means there is no chaos after the crime, at least, not straight away. This contradicts Christie as in her story the body is found straight away and there is chaos among the characters. Another contradiction of generic conventions is he way justice isn’t applied when the murderer is revealed, which is happens in Christie’s and often
The purpose of each text and stylistic features
Many crime fiction texts are produced to reflect and explore certain aspects of different societies, and developed conventions have allowed the development of the hard-boiled school. The Golden Age of crime fiction tends to focus on the plot, the setting and the intricate method of detection, while the hard boiled relies more on force and “gut-feelings” than ingenuity. The setting change from locked room conventions to large cities and massive chaos after the crime, taking the reader through a journey of what people envisaged as the experience of America’s exciting cities. The 100th Man houses many classic hard-boiled conventions, but contemporary versions have evolved to suit its culture, e.g instead of living in a rundown office with a type-writer and women seeking aid, the protagonist lives in a modest (but not run down) house near the beach, where women come, but requiring help in a different manner.
Purpose is to satirize conventional crime-fiction genre and does so through parodying The Mousetrap. An example is making the radio extremely specific when it comes to the where-abbots of the criminal, directly relating to the radio in the Mousetrap when it describes the clothes of the suspect which Giles Ralston is wearing, while in the real Inspector Hound the suffix (ish) is added for comic effect and paradoy.
However in The Real Inspector Hound the body isn’t discovered for much of the play, an unusual convention in itself, but also means there is no chaos after the crime, at least, not straight away. This contradicts Christie as in her story the body is found straight away and there is chaos among the characters. Another contradiction of generic conventions is he way justice isn’t applied when the murderer is revealed, which is happens in Christie’s and often