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Tommy Needham’s character list

Thomas Needham

November 28, 2022

Death On The Nile Character Sheet

 

First Name

Last Name

Description

 

Linnet

Ridgeway-Doyle

Rich woman who has a remorseless attitude to others. Tends to get whatever she wants. Very selfish and gives an ora of self involvement and self importance.  Has many enemies, is very smart . a somewhat tall woman with blonde hair.

 

Mr. Burnaby

Landlord of the 3 Crowns and the Wode mansion and is  very pleased man because linnet purchased the Wode  Hall from George Wode and expected that Linnet would invest also in the town Wode hall was located by building Ballrooms, gardens and swimming pools in Wode Hall.

 

George

Wode

A person who went bankrupt and sold his estate to Linnet and loves horse racing.

 

Joanna

Southwood

A good friend of Linnet. A very mean spirited,snobby woman who will not be associated with anybody that she feels is not financially stable.  Very superficial and admitted that if Linnet was not wealthy she wouldn’t be friends with her which  was one of thw many points of her superficialness.

 

Tobey

Brice. According the gossip column it has been assumed that he would be with Joanna Southwood.

Very good friend of  Melhuish

 

Melhuish

Ridgeway

Father to Linnet and husband to Anna. Is a financer who almost bankrupted  Ned Robson, he is also good friends with Andrew who has described him in a positive light by saying he was remarkable as well as successful.

 

Anna

Harts-Ridgeway

Mother of Linnet, wife of  Melhuish Daughter of an American millionaire and inherited the family fortune

 

Leopolts

Harts

Father of Anna very rich person. But Mrs. Van Schuyler has stated  to Colonel Race that her or her family would have no dealings with the Harts due to outside their wealth they wouldn’t have anything to do with them because the Van Schuyler family was very exclusive.

 

Charles

Windlesham

A friend of Linnet, Joanna and Tobey. There were rumors that he was engaged to Linnet at one time and he comes from a very rich family.

Is very in love with Linnet. He has said he does not love Linnet because of her money but has a characteristic of a gold digger.

 

Jacqueline

De Bellefort

Very in love with Simon, is Simon’s ex fiancé and very obsessive with both Linnet and Simon. Plans to marry Simon. Used to be a rich heiress who lost a lot of her money, before Linnet married Simon she was Linnets best friend at one point and the trip on The Nile with Simon on their honeymoon if they were married, her father was French and her mother was a woman from the South in the US. Her mom lost of her money which at one time was the windfall for Jackie.  Suspected of wanting to kill Linnet because she has a gun. Described as a short, skinny woman with dark curley  hair.

 

Marie

Linnets former  maid and is apparently getting over a relationship, she was going to marry Fleetwood. But Fleetwood is already married with kids. She believed Linnet ruined her life.

 

Simon

Doyle

Linnets husband but is still in love  with Jackie and married her best friend Linnet and is believed to have married her for her money.  A tall man, with  curly dark hair and dark blue eyes

 

Gaston

Blondin

A Restaurant owner  and one of the customers of the  Chez  Ma  Tante. Even though he owns a restaurant he does not pay any attention to many of his customers. its very rare   times he welcomes customers such as Inspector Poirot  and when he occasionally greets his guest he will talk with them and even show them their table. But in particular she is very welcoming to HP and does treat him as a very important patron.

 

Hercule

Poirot

A very successful private detective,retired police officer from Belgium.       and is rich. Is famously known as a private detective and very good at his job. Has a conscious about people who are guilty or untrustworthy and is one of the reasons he will not help Linnet with her worries about Jackie. Has a thick mustache and is well built and stout

 

Tim

Allerton

A very wealthy man due to the stock market and that is why he is on the cruise liner for The Nile. Very talkative and gossipy, is the second   cousin with Joanna Southwood and is a thief. He is tall, thin and has dark hair

 

Mrs. Allerton

Is tim’s mother and does not like Joanna and untrusting of Tim and Joannas relationship even though they are second cousins. Does not think Tim should go on the trip because people counting their pennies still should not go on such expensive cruises. and also does not like Linnet because Linnet stold Simon from Jackie and has a nice relationship with George who had his estate bought by Linnet due to him losing his money.  A woman in her fifties with shite hair.

 

Mrs. Robson

Mother of Cornelia, is a widow and is related to Van Schuyler and is happy that Van Schuyler takes Cornelia with her on the trip which makes Mrs. Robson very happy.

 

Cornelia

Robson

A very nice woman but her family was ruined by Linnets father and she is poor who lives in New York City and is clumsy, she is a short woman with dark hair and dark eyes. She is the niece of Mrs. Van Schuyler

 

Mrs. Van Schuyler

A mean grouchy woman who is also a kleptomaniac. She is going to tske her niece Cornelia on a trip to The Nile. She is very bossy to anyone she believes is beneath her.

 

Ms. Bowers

A nurse of Van Schuyler not just for health reason but because Van Schuylet is a known  thief of Linnets  pearls.

 

Andrew

Pennington

Linnet’s American  trustee and also does not approve of Linnet marrying Simon. Also gives a suspicion of trying to get Linnets money. A tall man with gray hair  and a clever looking face.

 

Fleetwood

One of  the engineers on board The  Karnak and also likes Marie. Linnet liked him until she found out he was married with three kids. Does not like Linnet because he believes she ruined her chances to marry. He was ssuspected of Linnets murder because of that motive.

 

Sterndale

Rockford

A partner of  Andrew. One of Linnets trustees a very clean cut person in appearance.

 

William

Carmichael

Is james Uncle and is a senior partner in a firm that bears his name and was Linnets English Solicitors

 

Jim

Fanthorp

Works for his Uncle William Carmichael.  Does not like Linnet. Smart and quiet heis also Linnets lawyer.

 

Salom

Otterbourne

A very mean spirited woman from Jerusalim and wants to leave. She is an author and  hates Linnet because of Jealousy and is a drunk.

 

Rosalie

Otterbourne

Is very mean she has the same negative attitude of her mother Salom. She is trying to help her mother through Saloms alcoholism Is the fiancé of Tim Allerton

 

Mr. Richetti

An Architect, has a kind of silent motive such as him not wanting to have Linnet look at his telegrams, seems secretive. He is a killer. He sells weapons and when he received a telegram about weapons and Linnet read it he got real upset with her. He has killed before and is on the run.

 

Carl

Bessner

A doctor in Europe and has  a very large clinic in Czechoslovokia and has bragged that he is well known in Austria. He is somewhat paranoide because he believes that HP believes he is a murderer. He is Cornelia’s fiance

 

Mr. Furgason

An Aristocrat who  is a communist and is very in love  with Cornelia and attended  Oxford and when he proposed Cornelia she rejcted him and said no. He hates rich people he thinks Linnet should be killed gives a very mean spirited attitude towards all. Though he is wealthy he does not live like one.

 

Colonel Race

A friend of HP who helps him figure out who killed Linnet and is a police officer.

 

Louise

Bourget

Maid of Linnet. Very cunning and seems vindictive and wants to find Linnets murderer  by blackmail for money also protected the murderer for HP so she can keep blackmailing for money.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quiz 3 Reminder

Dear Students,

In case you were absent last week, here is Quiz 3–it is a one question quiz. Please submit it to me by email on Monday (Dec 19) by midnight.

Who is the least ethical character between Tim Allerton and Andrew Pennington? Defend your answer by providing concrete examples from the text. [length: approximately 150 words]

Class Info for Monday, Dec 19

Agenda:

–Turn in Final Essay

–Discuss Final Exam

**Note: The last class of the semester is on Wednesday, Dec 21: We will take the final exam during class time. Please arrive on time. 

Study Guide:

Notes on the Final Exam:

Three parts:

Part 1: term identification: define a term and provide a concrete example.

Terms: I will provide seven terms and students will select four.

-Mise en scene

-diagetic and non-diagetic sound

Angles-Bird’s eye; long shot; low angle (from ground up); extreme closeup

Camera movement: tracking shot; shakey and steady;

Lighting:

Color:

Linda Cahir’s three types of translation: l, t, r

5 types of ethics: deontology, virtue, utilitarian, feminist, global

 

Part 2: Quotations: Again, I will list about four quotations and students will select three. Identify: title, author, character names who are involved in the scene and why it is an important scene.

–dotn: Jackie and Simon admit the killing

–dotn: Jackie talks to HP about the sun and moon metaphor and shows him the pistol

–dotn: chapter 12: when Jackie shoots Simon…

 

–tots: when Petruchio begins to woo Katherine and she rebuffs him.

–tots: scene where K and P are going to Padua for Bianca’s wedding and they encounter Lucentio’s father also traveling to Padua.

–tots: bets made…to Katherine’s final speech

 

Part 3: short essay: I will provide two essay prompts, and students will select one. About 250 words, or so. The questions usually ask students to apply a term (such as a type of ethics or exchange concept) to a pairing—text and film.

Class Info for Monday, Dec 12

IMPORTANT NOTE: THE FINAL ESSAY IS DUE MONDAY, DECEMBER 19TH (NOT 14TH). SORRY FOR THE MISTAKE.

Agenda:

–Review last classes:

*Dec 12 Today: watch, discuss, review

*Dec 14–NO CLASS –READING DAY

*Dec 19–Turn in Quiz 3 and Final Essay; review for Final Exam

*Dec 21–Final Exam; last day of class

 

–Go over homework questions

–Watch end of film

–Assign Quiz 3

HOMEWORK due MONDAY, Dec 19: 

1–Quiz 3

2–Final Essay

Thomas Needham’s Coffeehouse 3

Thomas Needham

November 21, 2022

ENG 2400

Assignment 8

 

When discussin the term empathy, at first it would automatically look at a character who might invoke a kind of sympathy for the person or in this character. In both reading of the book The Taming Of The Shrew by William Shakespeare and the film of the same name directed by Frankco Zefferelli there are so many characters and many points of interest including empathy. I decided to focus on Catarina due to most probably assuming due to her character traits that she should probably receive no  empathy. Mean spirited, demanding, very loud in both her attitude and opinion the reader would probably assume she had no empathy and no sympathy from the reader  but should be treated like the villain in the story.  Egotistic empathy which is defined as  empathy translated to having consequences in a negative way despite our feelings for a person. It can vary with it’s consequences such as guilt, shame  and social reasoning. In this essay I will look at the egotistic empathy and the examples of it when relating to Catarina. There are positive conclusions to Catarina but examining her character would show at first to someone on the outside looking in just as a casual reader Catarina might have no empathy.

When we start the story we see the various differences between Bianca and her older sister Caterina. Where Bianca is polite and kind hearted to all Caterina is probably the rudest, demanding shrew. Her father Bauptista lets people know how violent ways and attitude. Egotistic shows that though it is could be understanding to the reader why it would be possible not to feel any empathy for this certain character. Bauptista’s reasoning for wanting someone to marry her shows no compassion as well for he is treating the marriage  like business and  also a kind of experiment with Petruchio  to see if he can keep Catarina :under control” In Bauptista’s explanation of her ways by stating  “Hilding of a devlish spirit.” (Act II, p. 27-28) Bauptista grants the marriage of both his daughter and Petruchio more because of him being fed up with his earstwild daughter. By doing this it does show a form of egotistic empathy knowing there might be negative consequences regardless of how it might look to the reader of aman trying to do right by his daughter.  Evenn during the whole courting period of Catarina her attitude and behavior doesn’t change even when Petruchio starts inflicting his will upon her and being a controller.

Even though it is not shown fully in either the book or the film, instances of Pertruchio’s commands to Catarina kind of gets a little ridiculous. The one example is both of them on their way to the wedding where Pertruchio demands that there  is the moon shining and if she didn’t agree they will not attend Bianca’s wedding. This brings out the shame reasoning of Egotistic empathy. Despite who Catarina is in this story and how she conducts herself it would feel like she had it coming and probably deserves everything she gets from Pertruchio. But what Pertruchio is doing is meant not to just shame her but show her who is in control of the relationship, when walking to the wedding he insists   or better yet demands that it is a full moon shining rather than the sun, evidence shows that it is indeed the sun but Pertruchio’s demands and position trumps any idea that it is the sun and Catarina is forced to agree or miss her own sisters wedding.   Same can be said for his choosing of wardrobe at  the wedding. It is not that Pertruchio has poor taste in clothes but rather he is aware of how  ridiculous and out of the norm his clothes is and he does to basically once again show Catarina who wears the pants in this relationship. There is also enabling facters from other character’s in this story, Portensio shows the control Pertruchio wields by explaining to Catarina  to listen to Pertruchio. Kind of identifies with modern times is that there are people around the abuser who will side and even help the abused abide by the person who is the abuser.

Utter submission of Pertruchio becomes evident where Catarina submits to Petruchio “I pray, since we have  come so far  and be it moon or sun or what you please.” (Act IV and Act V P. 13-15) The funny thing about this story is that Catarina is learned how to ober Pertruchio and now knows how to still  get her way while surrendering to Pertruchio’s commands.  She is still wild,mean spirited,demanding but most importantly manipulative  but in a way is playing Pertruchio just to let him believe he is in  control. This is  what we mean by egotistic empathy is that this is a negative consequence towards the relationship and that it could be a bad idea. Bauptista will not allow Bianca to marry until there is a suiter for Caterina with the idea that whoever marries her will receive Bauptista’s dowry which brings in the social standing for egotistic empathy.Marrying Catarina will make Pertruchio a rich man with 20,000 Crowns and half of Bautpista’s land. Remember at the beginning Catarina wants nothing to do with  Pertruchio by even running away from him in the story ( Act II,scene I P.  255

This essay ends with how egotistic empathy is proven through out the story of Taming Of The Shrew and even today is a very relatable story amongst readers. The empathy felt for Catarina is unusual but meets the criteria of the definition egotistic empathy. Guilt, shame and social standing of why empathy is there and how it is possible to have empathy for a character that shows no redeeming quality.

Class Info for Wednesday, Dec 7

Agenda:

–Student questions from Monday

–Watch film

 

HOMEWORK for Monday, Dec 12: Read to 362

Who stole the pearls and who replaced them with fakes?

Who is found under her bed and what was she holding?

What was Salome Otterbourne about to say when she was shot?

Who is Mr. Ferguson really, and who does he want to marry?

Who does Cornelia Robson marry at the end and why?

Who does Rosalie marry at the end?

Why is the nail polish an important detail near the end of the novel?

Who is the least ethical character between Tim Allerton and Andrew Pennington?

 

 

Class Info for Monday, Dec 5

Agenda:

–return quiz 3

–class questions

–watch film to midpoint

–questions over final essay if time

HOMEWORK DUE WEDNESDAY, DEC 7: Read to page 283 and answer these questions in your notebook and be ready to read your answer in class for participation points.

1–Malia: In chapter 9, who wants Linnet to sign some legal documents and does she decide to do?

2–Miles: What near death incident happens in chapter 10; describe it.

3–Tevin: Who is Colonel Race, and why is he in Egypt?

4–Raymond: Who shoots who in chapter 12 and who else is in the room?

5–Thomas: Who is found dead in Chapter 13, and what has been stolen from her?

6–Julia: What murder weapon has gone missing, and where was it last seen?

7–Olivia: What is found in the Nile and what two other objects are found with it?

Class Info for Monday, Nov 28

Agenda

–Discuss beginning of DOTN. (Five part reading tool)

–Homework Questions

–More about HP

–Character handout

–Chapter summaries

–Watch first 10 minutes?

READING SCHEDULE:

11/28 Read to page 92 (up to chapter 6)

11/30 Read to page 144 (up to chapter 10)

12/5 Read to page 239 (up to chapter 17)

12/7 Read to page 283 (up to chapter 21)

12/12 Read to page 362 (up to chapter 27)

12/14 Read to page 416 (Finish novel)

Class Info for Wednesday, Nov 23

Agenda:

–Quiz 2

–Watch end of 10 things

–Discuss ethics and changes

HOMEWORK DUE Monday, Nov 28: Read up to page 92 (up to ch 6) in Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile. Then, each student has a question to answer below. Please post your answer (about 100 words to the Category “DOTN Characters and Questions”). Make sure to proofread your work before posting. 

Questions:

Malia–Who is Linnet Ridgeway? Describe her.

Miles–Who is Tim Allerton, and what is his relationship with his mother like?

Tevin–Who is Rosalie Robson, and what is her relationship with her mother like?

Raymond–Describe Mrs. Salome Otterbourne and her daughter Rosalie.

Thomas–In the long argument between HP and Linnet, they discuss who is right and wrong: Simon, Jackie, and Linnet. What is HP’s conclusion to the ideas of guilt and choice?

Julia–Explain what is meant by the sun and moon metaphor in chapter 5. Who tells this story and who is listening?

Sonam–Describe Poirot. What is his background?

Olivia–Describe the setting and context, especially the shifts in location.

 

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