Blog Post 7: TEAM WHY Detective Themed Texts

For this week’s weblog post I would like to concentrate on the topic of Detective text. This has been one of the main topics of this week’s readings. Some of the main themes that are included in Detective novels is that there is dead bodies or a crime, clues, investigation and of course suspects of the crime. This was especially a popular type of text in the 19^th century and there themes are still re-occurring in current films and novels that involves detective work. One of the main points I would like to bring up is the difference from now and back then how these types of texts are created. For most of today’s detective type creations they are based off of old true story crimes (Zodiac, Ted Bundy, Green River Killer), which occurred before technology really started hitting the scene. However, these modern creations still use the type of methods and procedures that occur in our reading “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” They both pay attention to detail, think as if they are the criminal themselves and use their past experiences to solve their current problem or situation. The texts from the 19^th century are more based on their modern real life experiences and methods that they have developed, but this is due to the fact that they are the ones who led the way of this Detective themed texts. This brings us to the next point of how impressive the detective novels were for their time. With the lack of technology during their time and the way in which they used what they had; mostly their knowledge and hard work to accomplish what we do today. Whether it is a fiction novel or a real one. In our modern day novels for this theme technology takes over the hard work of the humans for the most part. This makes for the authors in the 19^th century to come up with more creative ways in order to make the story not only exciting, exhilarating, but also satisfying in the sense that they get the job done. It’s important to compare the two different time periods because it gives a much deeper appreciation of the work that was created in the 19^th century. It also gives a bigger shout out to the authors that created these novels such as: Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe and Wilkie Collins among others. This has been one of my favorite themes discussed this far and is one that should be analyzed like as discussed above. I would highly recommend reading some of these older works that involve detective work as a theme. Contains more than what meets the eye.