The Case for the Defence and the Call Waiting.

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The Case for the Defence and the Call Waiting

 A genre is a type of literature. Genres are defined by their conventions. A detective Genre is a piece of writing or story written in the genre of a “detective Mystery”. A typical detective story will be a murder mystery including a detective who is on the case trying to solve the crime using clues and evidence. The stories I am comparing in my comparative essay are the given class story “ The Case For The Defence” by Graham Greene and other short detective story I have found myself “ The Call Waiting” by    

 The aspects of the stories I will discuss and compare are the plot, the characters, the narrative technique, the setting, the language used and how the genre of ‘detective novel’ fits in with the story.          

In both the stories the plot is based around a murder- one where an old woman was battered to death and there were several witnesses and another where a young successful lawyer was raped, shot in the head and found in her car with no apparent witnesses.

In the C.D. there is an evident murderer but it becomes unevident when the court show the witnesses he is a twin then both of them are let free because no one knows which twin killed Mrs Parker. When they leave the court there is an angry mob one of which pushes one Adam’s win in front of a bus he is then killed and the other brother cries but no one knew if the innocent was dead.

In the C.W. there is no convicted murderer until the husband a year later investigates his wife’s death by ringing his late wife’s mobile number and discovering some evidence to convict the murderer from the woman who answers the phone. He informs the detective who matches the fingerprints to those found at the scene. The mystery phone answerer then gives Jason (husband) information the catch the killer. The detective catches him and then Jason finds out that the mystery phone answerer was the murderer’s wife.

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 The plot in both these stories is a murder in the detective Genre but the stories still vary and are very different one is in court with no detective as such, except the lawyers in the court and the one the C.W. there is as in a traditional detective story, a detective. Also in one the murderer is convicted and in the other there isn’t a convicted murderer but one twin does get killed but whether he was guilty or not- it is not known. In one, fingertips find the murderer and in the other he is tried to find ...

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