"Twins"

Respond to questions 1-4 on p. 218                                                                              Friday 15 th,2013

1. It has been said that a good detective writer is always honest with the reader.  How does Eric Wright provide his readers with clues to the outcome of the story?                                            Eric Wright was clever while writing "Twins" by giving an insight of the outcome. The wife was the main hero in this story, or was she? It began with her contradicting the husband and questioning his stories. She seemed to know more that we knew at the time was was asking questions to lead the husband on to give her more clues. "How does one come out here so far? I wouldn't"(pg 212), it seems to me that she was trying to question what he was doing with her before she made any drastic choices that she was trying to kill her. While describing how much they look alike, (He doesn't actually have to change much; just put on a blonde wig, lipstick, glasses" He looked down at himself to show what it meant ) This made is seem more realistic to what was supposed to happen. 
2. "Crime does not pay", is it possible that the beginning of the story sets this up?                                                                              This story might reflect that crime does not pay because the villain  is that bad guy in the story and nothing ever turns out right for the bad guy. Showing that a person who does bad things will go nowhere in life. 
3.  In medias res is a Latin phrase meaning "in the middle of things." Explain how the term can be applied to the opening of this story and evaluate the author's choice in employing this technique.                                                                                                                                    The term "getting in the middle of things" can relate to the short story "Twins". Even from the beginning of the story when they characters were at a mine shaft in Sudbury, they were fighting and bickering about how his plot didn't fall through last time, ("I want to get it right," he said. "After making the mistake in the last book about how long it takes to get from Toronto to Detroit, I want this one to be water-tight." 213). This shows the man to man conflict, which can reflect the beginning of the story. 
4. Describe the difference in narrative style between the two parts of the story.  Determine why the author chose each style and the effectiveness of each.                                                               The two narrative styles in the story are a dialogue style and informative styles. Dialogue is in present tense and is the direct word that are spoken. Informative which is past tense and is describing what happened. The author chooses dialogue because it tells the story in great details and chooses informative to cut to the chase.