I Don't Regret Reading the Wheel Spins

Last Monday, my roommate recommended a fiction to me, in which I had no interest at all, because I am only interested in new things, but the story was created in the last century while the story happened in the 1930s. So old! However, it is a thriller. That's my favorite. Now I've finished reading and want to thank my roommate. It is a good story. Please allow me to talk something about The Wheel Spins, or I will always be thinking about it.The thriller was written by Ethel Lina White in 1936, and was made into a movie named The Lady Vanishes in 1938. I guess not many have seen this film, also because it is old. Still I want to say, feeling a book is different from feeling a film.The writer, Ethel Lina White, was born in England and worked for the government for some years. She began writing fictions in the 1920s, most of which were thrillers, such as Twill Soon Be Dark (1929), The Eternal Journey (1930), and Fear Stalks the Village (1932). She was good at telling stories ful
l of thriller, mystery and intrigue.The major character of The Lady Vanishes is a young woman named Iris Henderson, heading home on a train after spending the holidays in the Balkans. On the train, she becomes friends with Miss Froy, a kindly old lady. After knowing each other, Iris falls asleep quickly, because she gets sunstroke before getting on the train. When she awakens, Miss Froy has vanished, replaced by someone else in Miss Froy's clothing. Iris asks the other passengers, but everyone denies having ever seen the old woman, insisting there isn't any Miss Froy as Iris describes, except a sincere young musician.The passengers have different backgrounds, including a wealthy British official lady, a couple, a stylish young lady, a nurse-nun wearing high heel shoes, a extremely slim doctor with a patient in wraps throughout, a professor and others. All of them are cold and follow the woman authority. Then is Iris really crazy to claim there being a Miss Froy that has been
missing? Does she go into illusion because of tiredness? If Iris is right, then where is Miss Froy and is she murdered or hided? How can a person suddenly vanish in a running train? Iris's brain is filled with such questions. Struggling with both others and herself, Iris eventually finds a clue to Miss Froy's whereabouts. She is kidnapped because she knows something unusual by accident. The journey is a cabal.Reading the book, the readers will surely focus their attention on the heroine, Iris, who leads the readers to walk through one another forest full of fog. And she deserves the admiration for her helpfulness, integrity and perseverance. While other passengers follow the authority's decision regardless of Miss Fory's security, Iris stands up and insists on searching on the noisy train. Though once giving up and nearly breaking down, she eventually saves Miss Froy's life. Her courage and helpfulness should be advocated in our society.It is interesting to find a missing l
ady in the always running train following the writer's excellent mind. One of the advantages of this thriller is the vivid description. The description of the surrounding and the passengers is very detailed throughout the story, especially the negative description of the main character's health state and her fascinating former experience, which sets up many doubts for the readers and makes them wonder if the old lady doesn't exist at all or weather she is murdered, and if all the things are just something of Iris's intrigue but not some other passenger's. The more suspects the more successful as a thriller.As the idea kidnapping on a running train is quite attractive. But still there is something frustrating should be put forward. The writer reveals the truth too early when she focuses a lot on describing the real kidnapper. It is a pity for a thriller to give out the result so quickly, not considering readers' feeling. Besides, If the story develops as most people expect th
at Miss Fory doesn't exit and all the things are heroine's intrigue, it will attracts more eyes.

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