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Essay Instructions
The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate your understanding of a literary text through literary analysis and how it fits into the conventions of the genre.
Instructions: Write a minimum 750-word essay including an introduction, body paragraphs to support your thesis, and a conclusion, in MLA format. Use the resources in your , previous assignments, and other online sources to aid you, such as a dictionary and thesaurus.
Base your thesis and analysis on the following:
Discuss how Louise Penny develops her puzzle game in A Rule Against Murder. Refer to at least three main points in the essay “The Puzzle-Game” to support your argument. Connect your analysis to at least two literary techniques or devices used by Penny (such as setting, characterization, narrative point of view, imagery, metaphor, etc.). Be sure to use examples from the text either through paraphrase or direct quotes.
How to organize your essay:
• Introduction that sets up your topic, including a clear thesis statement that outlines the focus of your analysis (must connect Penny and “The Puzzle-Game”).
• Three body paragraphs, each analysing how Penny’s A Rule Against Murder fits one aspect of the puzzle-game style mystery as presented in “The Puzzle-Game.” Include at least two examples of Penny’s use of literary techniques or devices to support your argument in each body paragraph.
• Conclusion that ties your argument together and echoes your thesis.
You will be evaluated on:
• Comprehension and insight (How well did you analyze the story? How well did you relate the text to the genre?)
• Structure and development (How well did you prove your position? Do all of your points tie back to your central thesis? Have you used topic sentences and concluding sentences effectively? How well have you supported your ideas with examples from the story?)
• Expression (How well have you articulated your ideas with clear writing? Have you used proper vocabulary, diction, transitional words, sentence structure and syntax? Is your writing free of grammatical and spelling errors? Have you integrated quotes properly?)
• Formatting (Have you formatted in MLA style? Double-spaced? Provided a Works Cited page with proper citations?)A RULE AGAINST MURDER
ALSO BY LOUISE PENNY
The Cruelest Month
A Fatal Grace
Still Life
LOUISE PENNY
A RULE AGAINST
MURDER
MINOTAUR BOOKS NEW YORK
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations,
and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the
author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
A RULE AGAINST MURDER. Copyright © 2008 by Louise Penny.
All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue,
New York, N.Y. 10010.
www.minotaurbooks.com
Book design by Jonathan Bennett
Excerpt from The Cremation of Sam McGee used by kind
permission of the Estate of Robert Service.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Penny Louise.
A rule against murder / Louise Penny.—1st ed.
p.cm.
http://www.minotaurbooks.com/
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-37702-1
ISBN-10: 0-312-37702-9
1. Gamache, Armand (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2.
Police—Québec (Province)—Fiction. 3. Québec (Province)—
Fiction. 4. Murder—Investigation— Fiction. 5. Resorts—
Fiction. I. Title.
PR9199.4.P464R85 2009
813’.6—dc22
2008030430
First published in Great Britain by Headline Publishing Group
under the title The Murder Stone
First U.S. Edition: January 2009
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For my parents, in love and memory
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I have a few people to thank for this book. The first and
foremost, as always, is my kind and gentle husband, Michael.
It took me a lot longer than it should have to realize that
Armand Gamache isn’t simply my fictional husband, he’s my
real husband. Indeed, without even realizing it I based Chief
Inspector Gamache on Michael. A man who is content and
knows great joy, because he’s known great sorrow. And
mostly, he knows the difference.
I’d also like to thank Rachel Hewitt, who curates the
sculpture collection at the Royal Academy in London.
Hope Dellon of St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur Books and
Sherise Hobbs of Headline are my editors and worked to make
this book what it is. I owe them both a huge debt, as I do the
most wonderful agent in the world, Teresa Chris. She is very
wise.
I owe a great debt to Lise Page, my assistant, who patiently
tends gardens in the summer and tends to us the rest of the
year. Everything she touches flourishes. And she rarely finds
the need to use fertilizer.
And finally Jason, Stephen and Kathy Stafford, who own
and run Manoir Hovey in the village of North Hatley, Quebec.
The Manoir Bellechasse is inspired by Hovey Manor, and by
the many, many wonderful days and nights we’ve spent there.
If you read this book and then visit Hovey you’ll notice that it
is far from an exact replica—of the Inn or the lake. But I hope
I have, at least, captured the feel of Manoir Hovey. In fact,
Michael and I love it so much we got married in the tiny
Anglican Chapel in North Hatley manyA RULE AGAINST MURDER
ALSO BY LOUISE PENNY
The Cruelest Month
A Fatal Grace
Still Life
LOUISE PENNY
A RULE AGAINST
MURDER
MINOTAUR BOOKS NEW YORK
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations,
and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the
author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
A RULE AGAINST MURDER. Copyright © 2008 by Louise Penny.
All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue,
New York, N.Y. 10010.
www.minotaurbooks.com
Book design by Jonathan Bennett
Excerpt from The Cremation of Sam McGee used by kind
permission of the Estate of Robert Service.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Penny Louise.
A rule against murder / Louise Penny.—1st ed.
p.cm.
http://www.minotaurbooks.com/
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-37702-1
ISBN-10: 0-312-37702-9
1. Gamache, Armand (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2.
Police—Québec (Province)—Fiction. 3. Québec (Province)—
Fiction. 4. Murder—Investigation— Fiction. 5. Resorts—
Fiction. I. Title.
PR9199.4.P464R85 2009
813’.6—dc22
2008030430
First published in Great Britain by Headline Publishing Group
under the title The Murder Stone
First U.S. Edition: January 2009
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For my parents, in love and memory
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I have a few people to thank for this book. The first and
foremost, as always, is my kind and gentle husband, Michael.
It took me a lot longer than it should have to realize that
Armand Gamache isn’t simply my fictional husband, he’s my
real husband. Indeed, without even realizing it I based Chief
Inspector Gamache on Michael. A man who is content and
knows great joy, because he’s known great sorrow. And
mostly, he knows the difference.
I’d also like to thank Rachel Hewitt, who curates the
sculpture collection at the Royal Academy in London.
Hope Dellon of St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur Books and
Sherise Hobbs of Headline are my editors and worked to make
this book what it is. I owe them both a huge debt, as I do the
most wonderful agent in the world, Teresa Chris. She is very
wise.
I owe a great debt to Lise Page, my assistant, who patiently
tends gardens in the summer and tends to us the rest of the
year. Everything she touches flourishes. And she rarely finds
the need to use fertilizer.
And finally Jason, Stephen and Kathy Stafford, who own
and run Manoir Hovey in the village of North Hatley, Quebec.
The Manoir Bellechasse is inspired by Hovey Manor, and by
the many, many wonderful days and nights we’ve spent there.
If you read this book and then visit Hovey you’ll notice that it
is far from an exact replica—of the Inn or the lake. But I hope
I have, at least, captured the feel of Manoir Hovey. In fact,
Michael and I love it so much we got married in the tiny
Anglican Chapel in North Hatley manyPenny’s Puzzle-Game
Group Members: Bappi Barua Sraman,
· Return to “The Puzzle-Game” and Death on the Nile assignment
· Revise your main points from “The Puzzle-Game” as necessary based on the highlighted main points on Lea.
· Connect A Rule Against Murder to the main points from “The Puzzle-Game” and Death on the Nile with a brief explanation.
· Include a Works Cited page for all three works (refer to MLA Referencing 8th Edition in coursepack).
Submit one copy per group on the Assignments page on Lea (include names of all contributing members and send a copy to everyone).
Main point 1:
·
Connection(s) to Death on the Nile and A Rule Against Murder: How Christie and Penny focuses the attention on the mystery (who did it) rather than on the murder (violent nature/gory details).
Example (Christie): The crime scene was short and undetailed compared to the investigation, which was slow-paced and built up to the ending.
Example (Penny): The crime scene was detailed, but the investigation focused more on the statue than the corpse itself. It focused more on how the statue fell which brought attention on the investigation more than the murder.
Main point 2:
· Connection(s) to Death on the Nile and A Rule Against Murder: Christie and Penny will often weave games within games to increase the dimension of their work. They use emotional distancing through additional unhelpful clues to make puzzle more challenging to the viewer.
Example (Christie): Most of the investigation focuses on the event of the first killing, Poirot is entirely focused on the person who might have witnessed Jackie shooting Simon right out of the room, distracting us from the truth.
Example (Penny): The investigation first revolves around mainly the family as it is assumed it was one of them who had committed the crime when it was actually the maitre d’. It was also assumed that the murder was personally against Julia when actually it rooted from his hatred towards David Martin.
Main point 3:
· Connection(s) to Death on the Nile and A Rule Against Murder: Christie and Penny exercise a concept of struggle to accomplish a goal or conclusion throughout the investigation.
Example (Christie): The writer uses the main murder and the setting to manipulate the characters into being considered all suspects. She uses unhelpful clues such as the pearls being stolen, and the snake in Poirot’s bathroom, as well as the J written in blood on the bedframe.
Example (Penny): Like Christie, Penny uses unhelpful clues such as the letters found in the fireplace and Elliot’s disappearance to deceive and confuse the reader.
Main point 4:
· Connection(s) to Death on the Nile and A Rule Against Murder: Agatha Christie likes to use nursery rhymes in their books. Penny however, uses poems and stories.
Example (Christie): When Jackie was on the bar, drunkenly talking; she uses this as a scheme to divert the attention off her possibly being the murderer.
Example (Penny): She uses the WW2 Aviator poem as
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