How doth the little crocodile
As in so many mystery novels, Roger Ackroyd is set in a small, isolated community where everybody knows everybody else. The isolated, close-knit setting 1) suggests that the criminal is someone who everybody knows, and 2) creates a paranoid, suspenseful mood, since the criminal is hiding a big secret from their neighbors. It’s also telling that the owners of the two most “important houses” in town are also the two main victims of the novel.
Explanation:
" I was nothing but a body. Perhaps even less: a famished stomach." 52
Here we see that in just a few days Elie feels like he has lost everything. He feels he has lost hope,faith, and his will to live.
A. an original research report. Hope this helped u hunn =^.^=
The meaning of cryptic in this sentence is - mysterious
