Discussion Section

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 491.

1.A good story requires the beginning which will catch the reader's attention. Which of the sentences at the beginning of the story was such to you?

2.Arrange the facts of the story in the logical order.

3.How many people were under suspicion in the case of kidnapping? Whom did you suspect when you read the first half of the story and why?

4.Did the story told by Mr. Waverly sound true to you? Pick up the words from his narration when he described his emotional state and decide whether they were really the feelings of a father whose child had been kidnapped?

5.Imagine you are a police officer. You are interviewing Mrs. Waverly. What questions would you ask?

6.You are a young journalist of a local newspaper. Interview the Scotland Yard inspector about the case of kidnapping at Waverly Court, Surrey. Find out as much as you can about this case. First of all ask the inspector questions to which you know the answer, but you are not sure of it, then the questions to which you don't know the answer, for example:

Little Johnnie was kidnapped, wasn't he?

You must have thought the child was kidnapped by a stranger, haven't you?

7.What features of Poirot's character have you seen in this story?

8.Give a short sketch of each main character of the story.

9.What did Hercule Poirot call his little joke?

10.Comment on the play of words and the way it is used in the story to mislead Hastings. Did it mislead you?

11.What did Hercule Poirot mean when he used his famous expression “grey cells”?

12.Do you think Hercule Poirot was right in letting Mr. Waverly go unpunished?

13.Do you find the explanation of the case which Hercule Poirot gave to Hastings convincing? Give your arguments.

14.What points are left out, to your mind? What else would you like to know about the case?

15.Comment on Hercule Poirot's advice to sweep in the corners which he gave to Mr. Waverly.

16.Do you think Mr. Waverly will take another chance given to him by Hercule Poirot? Are Mr. and Mrs. Waverly going to be a happy family?

17.Do you think Mr. Waverly was really a good father?

18.Can the lack of money justify any unjust action to get it, even if no real harm is meant? Give your arguments.

19.Pick up the lines from the story where the author's attitude towards the personages is most vividly felt and decide whether this attitude is sympathetic, humorous, ironical or other?

20.Why do you think Agatha Christie uses French words in Hercule Poirot's speech?