I am assuming that you all have already read the book, before coming here to the section of the review that includes spoilers. Very well, welcome.
I will not at all talk about any part of the book, or provide any chapter summary, this is not an essay for your English class, this is a review, for you as a person and the way you are evaluating a book you read and coming to conclusions and insightful revelations about your life through the words about the author.
So talking about the various aspects of this book. I would very first like to point out.
THE STRUCTURE-
The entire book is divided into three parts. The Facts, The evidence, and Hercule Poirot sits back and thinks.
The evidence and the facts are laid down in front of the reader, page by page, most delicately, and most cautiously by Agatha Christie, an open invitation card to fulfill every Agatha Christie fan’s fantasy of being Hercule Poirot’s sidekick.
Grab your pens, paper, sticky notes, and maybe even a fake mustache to really delve into the character of Hercule Poirot, and solve the mystery alongside him.
THE 2 SOLUTIONS-
A feature that demarcates this classic novel from the rest of Agatha Christie's books is the ending it brought about. Agatha Christie came up with not just one, but two solutions. To one crime.
One with the truth.
The other one is a lie.
Now this book can be set apart as a defining moment in Hercule Poirot’s life because here, he broke out of his principles, and really felt the situation by heart. His role was not of the one to dust off the crime scene and clean it up for the next, but he really started becoming one with the crime. He listened to his heart, not to the voices inside his head, and went with the first solution, thus giving the killers, a chance to heal.
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT-
The dire need for balance, and the feeling of unrest at the slightest “imbalance” of circumstances drives the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot insane, and quite ironically, might just also be the secret to his being. The secret of Poirot to becoming the greatest detective of all time.
His hamartia is OCD, which is very vividly depicted in the said book’s 2017 movie adaptation.
Murder On the Orient Express is psychologically enlightening for both the sides, the detective, and the killers.
12 people, stabbing one person, not once, not twice, not thrice, but TWELVE TIMES. All over the body, reminds me of the famous quote by the father of Psychoanalytical Analysis
Sigmund Freud
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later in uglier ways”
The trauma inflicted upon the Armstrong family and the need for vengeance that Cassetti was set free, broke the Armstrong family apart, leaving behind scars that never fade away. Each person who stabbed Cassetti had a scar, that they simply passed on to the birthplace of their monster.
“I have seen the fracture of the human soul, so many broken lives, so much pain and anger giving way to the poison of deep grief until one crime became many. I have always wanted to believe that man is rational and civilized. My very existence depends upon this hope upon order and method and the little grey cells. But now perhaps, I am asked to listen instead to my heart”
-Hercule Poirot.
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