chapter 5-murder

Question 1

“murder”…

Answer 1

• title name establishes the novel as a detective fiction

- crime element

Question 2

“if, as you say, your…

Answer 2

master has been murdered”

Question 3

“impossible…

Answer 3

sir” RARKER

• Parker clearly confused
• suspense as the reader want to know if this is true

Question 4

“it was my…

Answer 4

turn to stare”

• Sheppard playing the role of an outsider.. as though he has no involvement in the murder
• dual persona evident here

Question 5

“I’ll take…

Answer 5

responsibility”

• Sheppard to Parker.
• Shows how reputation is key as if Parker we’re to break down the door it would be a problem
• Ironic as Sheppard then pins the murder on everyone else and is last to take responsibility

Question 6

“Ackroyd was sitting as I had left him…

Answer 6

in the armchair before the fire”

• very telling on a second read as he literally says how he left Ackroyd in the chair
• place is significant
• Sheppard seems quite confident

Question 7

“just below the collar of his coat, was…

Answer 7

a shining piece of twisted metalwork”

• inclusion of violence
• tells us about the killer, that he is brutal and sinister to murder someone this way

Question 8

“I did what little had to be…

Answer 8

done. I was careful not to disturb the position of the body.”
- telling of the murder…again very incriminating to Sheppard, we just don’t know this yet.

Question 9

“nothing must…

Answer 9

be moved”

-detection of the murder

Question 10

” ‘no man could stab himself in such a way,’…

Answer 10

i said confidently”

-eliminates suicide. perhaps proud of his murder? could guess that from ‘confidently’

Question 11

“the blue envelope containing…

Answer 11

Mrs. ferrars letter had disappeared”

• motive for the murder
• golden age-puzzle driven

Question 12

“terribly sorry…

Answer 12

for this”

-comments on society at the time…murder of manners. Many people we’re polite.

Question 13

“i explained the..

Answer 13

circumstances carefully”

• Sheppard doing this allows his voice to be heard, therefore most likely wont be a suspect
• lack of assertiveness from the detective.. allows Sheppard to take control
• police seem very amateur

Question 14

“a telephone…

Answer 14

message”

-detection of murder

Question 15

“well it’s open now…

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anyway”

-Inspectors detection of the murder

Question 16

“I met a…

Answer 16

man this evening”

-Sheppard’s first opportunity to fixate blame on someone

Question 17

“no thanks…

Answer 17

I’ll do my own inquiring”

• detection of the criminal
• inspector feels the need to make his own inquiries

Question 18

“parker was most suspiciously…

Answer 18

flustered”
-Although Sheppard makes Parker seem guilty here, it was most likely due to his master being murdered
-see the affect a point of view can have on the reader
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Question 19

“gave a little cry, and I hurried…

Answer 19

to catch her as she fell. She had fainted”

• not used to crime taking place in this town
• women viewed as weak and in need of assistance
• she don’t stray from stereotypes-depicted as cute and helpful
• comment on society.. women are weak compared to men