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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Elements of Mystery in Joanne Fluke Books

Discuss the following in your group today:
  1. Define the elements in mystery stories.
  2. What elements are evident in Fluke's book. Give specific examples from your book and fully elaborate.

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When answering, remember to include:
  • Your group's complete answer
  • The title of the book you're reading with your group
  • Your first names only, no last names

12 comments:

  1. Members: Henry Jonathon Cesar

    The elements of mystery of mystery are suspects, a problem, a victim and the crime on the mystery.

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  2. Members:ME:Jonathan,Cesar,and Henry

    The elements of a mystery are suspects,problem,and a victim.
    A crime makes a mystery.

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  3. Members:Me,Jonathan and Henry

    The elements of a mystery are suspects, problems, a victom

    A crime makes a mystery

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  4. club: SHINIGAMI
    members: Abidur, Matthew, Oscar, Mitchelangelo, Abraham
    book: Cream puff Murder
    mystery elements in book: suspense, crime/murder, detective, clues, motivation, suspects

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  5. john,miguel,juan
    in the book cream puff murder it has real characters like hannah.it also have a catchy intro because it has action.

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  6. Title:The Fudge Cupcake Murder

    Author:Joanne Fluke

    Suspence makes a story a mystery.Red hearings or false clues is a mysteryelement.A crime is part of a mystery.

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  7. Members: Mireya & Jaqueline

    The elements of a mystery are; clues, red hearings,suspects, victims, a crime,suspense, tragedies and terror elements, possible criminals, believable characters, background information, catchy introduction, stories can be based on real life.

    :)

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  8. So, John, Juan, and Miguel, don't other genres have "catchy" introductions? What precisely makes a mystery a mystery? And, can you clever detectives, prove it using evidence from your book?

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  9. So, everyone, let's use some information from the text to prove that these elements are actually in our book.

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  10. Oscar
    Members: Oscar, Mitchelangelo, Abidur, Abraham, Matthew
    The elements of the book The Cream Puff Murder are murder, suspects, Suspense, and victims.

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  11. The conflict in my book is that a black woman called Clara Brown heading for Colorado in hope to get rich from the gold rush and to find her long lost child. Brown does get rich and with her money, she buys slave from owners and gives them freedom. But after buying slaves, Brown forgets about her child and goes looking for her daughter.

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  12. the book i am reading is called the cat that eat my gym clothes and it,s conflict is that tow families from to religions become 1 and it was good news until now. The to girls in the house are in 8th grade but will there friendship stay on place. the problem is that they can live together as best friends but as step sisters they cant they have to find a way to make their friendship like if it was a regular day before they became step sister or try to find a way to live together

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