ANSWERS+TO+QUESTIONS

1. Why have you chosen this writer?
I have chosen Dashiell Hammet because he's a very little-know writer.(Amanda) I have choosed a Dashiell hammet because I didn't know writter.(Juanma) I have chosen Dashiell Hammet because I like black novel and I didn't know writter( Jaber) I have chose Dashiell Hammet because writer the novel black.(Adriana) I have chosen Dashiell Hammet because I want to know about he (Verónica) I have chosen Dashiell Hammet because i like the literary genre that he use. (Julie) I have chosen Dashiell Hammet because I like to read black novels and because I like him because he done in his life whatever he proposed to do. (Magalí)


 * **chosen** is correct
 * **about him**
 * **because he writes the black novel**

2.Did he have a happy life?
Dashiel Hammet had a very hard life. He had tuberculosis during the World War I. He was sick all his life and he get drunk. (Amanda) Dashiell Hammett did not have a happy childhood, suffered two World Wars. But even though that was a great writer of black novels(JuanMa) Dashiell Hammet had a troubled life because he suffered from tuberculosis and alcoholism. (Julie)
 * **he** was

Dashiell Hammet didn't have a happy life. H e had tuberculosis and he was alcoholic. (Verónica)  Samuel Dashiell Hammett doesn't had a happy childhood because he left the school at 13 years and he goes to work, and he suffered the first World War.(Jaber)  Dashiell Hammet did not have live, and childhood, because he left school for go to work. He suffered of Tuberculosis, alcoholic and the first Word War.(Adriana)
 *  doesn´t **have**
 *  **went (** use the past simple, it is a biography )
 *  **life_** vida
 *  for **going / to go**
 *  sufferend **from**


 *  I agree with you, he had an unlucky and very hard life. His health was very poor because of tuberculosis, and moreover he was addicted to drinking. Furthermore, he lived the consequences of the two World Wars.

 More or less, because he had good and bad experiences in his l ife. He had in his life poor health due to sporadic outbreaks of tuberculosis and his alcoholism. But he was happy when, in 1931, Hammet begins a relationship with the playwright Lillian Hellman that became in a marriage that lasted 33 years. (magalí)

3.What is a detective story?
This kind of story has an atmosphere of fear, violence, corruption of the power and insecurity. It's born in the first decades of the 20th century in The United States. The protagonist always is a detective. (Verónica) The detective story are stories about one or more unknowns to be solved, the detective is the person who solved unknowns. This stories were born in the first decades of the XX century.(Jaber)
 * **It was** born
 * **is always (** adeverbs of frequency after the verb to be **)**

The detective story are stories about investigation of some event to resolve unknow. The detective is a person ordinary. The detective story were incorporate the first decades of the XX century.(Adriana) It's born in the first decades of the 20th century in The United States.The detective story are stories about investigation of some event to resolve unknow.(juanma)
 * **these** stories
 * who solve**s**
 * ? unknowns?
 * ordinary person

It's a story about detectives where is investigated a case unknown. These stories has born in the first decades 20th century.(Julie)

Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction in which a detective (or detectives), either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder. (Amanda)

 A detective story is a novel whose main objective is the resolution of a case. The main character, a cop or a detective, solves the case using the reason based on investigation and observation, and also using intuition, feelings and deduction. (Magalí)

**4.Difference beetween supense and detective fiction**
In the detective fiction, the protagonist is a detective (or detectives) who they have to investigate crimes. In the suspense fiction, the novel is based to suspense and intrigue.(Amanda)
 * In the fiction of usally scares supense ,is a not investigation, but in a fiction detective is a detective investigate crimes.(juanma)**
 * rewrite these two sentences
 * In the suspense fiction the protagonist isn't a detective, during the story are intrigue. (Verónica)**
 * rewrite the long sentence
 * The stories of suspense detective have more fear and desire to know the final and the fiction stories of detective don't have these emotions.(Jaber)**
 * during the story **there is**
 * The stories of suspense detective have more fear and desire to know the final and the fiction stories of detective don't have these emotions.(Jaber)**
 * during the story **there is**

5.Main works to read and analyse
red harvest publishet 1929, The dain curse(1929), The malese falcon(1930),The thin man(1934), Blood Money(1943)(JUANMA) //Cosecha Roja//, El halcón maltés, //La maldición de los Dain//, //El hombre delgado// and //La llave de cristal//. (Verónica) Red Harvest, The Dain Cursehe, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Thin Man, Blood Money, The Continental Op. (Jaber) The Maltese Falcon(1930), The continental agent(1924), The thin man(1934), The glass key(1931), Red harvest(1929), The Dain curse(1929), Nigthmare city(1925), A woman in the dark(1933).(Adriana)


 * Verónica has written the works in Spanish, so you can read them in Spanish. What are their real titles in English? Look for them.

// Red Harvest // (published on February 1, 1929),// The Dain Curse // (July 19, 1929),// The Maltese Falcon // (February 14, 1930),// The Glass Key // (April 24, 1931),// The Thin Man // (January 8, 1934)(Julie)

(Amanda)
 * Novels:** //Red Harvest// (published on February 1, 1929), //The Dain Curse// (July 19, 1929), //The Maltese Falcon// (February 14, 1930), //The Glass Key// (April 24, 1931) and //The Thin Man// (January 8, 1934)

 Hammett won the literary prestige through their novels published between 1929 and 1931: The first two were Red Harvest and The Dain Curse. However, it was The Maltese Falcon his most famous novel. (Magalí)

HHe's a detective created by Dashiell Hammett, and was a hard detective. (Jaber)
Sam Spade is a detective of fiction by the writer the black novel Dashiell Hammett. He is a hard detective, because the face violent and danger situations for a group of criminals.(Adriana)


 * rewrite: because the face violent and danger situations for a group of criminals?
 * ====You are right, but why do you think Sam Spade is a hard hero? Find out and tell me here.====

Sam Spade is a fictional character who is the protagonist of Dashiell Hammet's novel The Maltese Falcon (1930).Especially his cold detachment, keen eye for detailand unwavering determination to achieve his ownjustice.(Julie)

Sam Spade is a fictional character who is the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's novel The Maltese Falcon (1930) and the various films and adaptations based on it, as well as in three lesser know short stories by Hammett. He's a hard detective.(Amanda)

 Sam Spade is a fiction detective inflexible and ironic. In the magazine Black Mask the character is widely cited as the crystallizing figure in the development of the hard-boiled private detective genre. (Magalí)

**7.Explain how the time he was living influenced on him**
He was living a hard moment on his live by disease and turned to drinking, advertising, and, eventually, writing. The majority of his characters were based on people was known personally. (Jaber)
 * moment **of** his life
 * rewrite: turned to drinking, advertising, and, eventually, writing.?

He lived in a really bad moment in the history. During his life, he lived two World Wars (in which he participated directly) and during the World War I, he became ill of tuberculosis. This made that he started to drink alcohol. (Amanda)

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.38in; margin-top: 2.4pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline;"> After the war, he began to drink, tried to work with advertising and, finally, with literature. His experience in the Pinkerton detective agency when he was young, gave him inspiration for his works. (Magalí)

8.Golden age from the 1920s to1950s: why?
Because in this time it is the popular kind to the Literature of SCIENCE-FICTION.(Adriana)
 * kind of **science fiction literature**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Because in this age, the science fiction literature is more popular. (Amanda)

9.Origins of the American detective novel with Edgar Allan Poe: 1841 //The Murders in the Rue Morgue//
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">It has been claimed that //The Murders in the Rue Morgue// was the first detective story. (Amanda)

10.His successors: Raymond Chandler -author of the hero Phillip Marlowe
Tried to imitate Dashiell Hammett, but his style is very different , Hammett is dry and impressionistic , and Chandler ironic and cynical. Raymond copied the American society of the time, where money and the pursuit of power are the real engines of human relations , with the resulting consequences of crime , marginalization and injustice of hammet novel. (Jaber)
 * **He** tried

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Chandler tried to imitate to Dashiell Hammett, but his style was very different: Dahsiell Hammett was a dry and impressionistic author, and Chandler was a ironic and cynical writer. Chandler adopted the complaint to the american society of the age of Dashiell's style, where the money and the searching of the power are the real motors of the humans relationships, with their consequential sequelae of crimes, margination and injustice. (Amanda)

==11.Compare British detective novels: first detective fiction writers ( Wilkie Collins //The Moonstone// and Charles Dickens B//leak House//),Sir Arthur Conan Doyle //Sherlock Holmes//, G.K. Chesterton //Father Bro//wn, Agatha Christie //Her//cules //Poirot//, P. D. James-a woman mystery writer)==