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A table including key quotes from Agatha Christie's 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' sorted by themes (Violence, Detection, Gossip, and Law vs Ethics)

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Alienation Family
"Hissing and crying 'Shoo!' like a "His sister began to sob"
savage"
"That [being a bug] made his "Oh sir do spare my parents"
mother cry"



"No one was likely to visit him" "Perhaps his father noted his
good intentions, for he did not
interfere except every now and
then to help him in the
manoeuvre from a distance"
"She was so startled that without "was certainly why his sister had
being able to help it she slammed set it there for him" [Food]
the door shut again"

"Realised how replusive the sight of "Family vainly urging another to
him still was to her" [Grete] eat"



"misfortune such as had never "This was the first time she had
happened to any of their relations or addressed him since his
acquaintances" metamorphosis" [Grete]
"It's such a long time since he's "Embracing him in complete
eaten anything" union with him- but here Gregor's
sight began to fail- with her hands
clasped around his father's neck
as she begged for her son's life"


"his father did recollect that
Gregor was a member of the
family"
"family duty required the
suppression of disgust and the
excersise of patience, nothing but
patience"
"misfortune such as had never
happened to any of their relations
or acquaintances"
"He would never let her out of his
room, at least, not so long as he
lived"
"that because of the disgusting
conditions prevailing in this
household and family"

, "I won't utter my brother's name
in the presence of this creature,
and so all i say is: we must get rid
of it"
"Rotting apple in his back"

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