And Then There Were None Book Report

John just stood in shock. Two Englishmen came out the trees, one was named Daniel Smith and the other was named Walter Kelly. They had thought Little Hawk was attacking John so they killed him. They threw Little Hawk’s body aside, and started hacking at the branch to free John’s father. John began to cry and shrieked at the men, saying that Little Hawk was just trying to help. John started to grow a sense of hatred towards the two Englishmen. People carried John’s father away in a litter and nobody noticed John taking Little Hawk’s tomahawk and sliding it under his jacket. That night, John’s father died. Soon after, Daniel Smith married John’s mother. One year later, Daniel sent John away to be an apprentice to a cooper named Master Medlycott. On the way, he met a pretty girl named Huldah Bates who was going to live with the Kelly household and help the mistress there. When John arrived to the Medlycott household, Master Medlycott greeted him and gave him tasks to do. The schedule was same every week. On Sundays, John and the Medlycotts went to the meetinghouse for a sermon. John rarely had the chance to speak to Huldah Bates but they exchanged smiles in the meetinghouse. One Sunday, a preacher named Roger Williams arrived at the meetinghouse and talked about freedom of religion and stated that everyone are all brothers and sisters, including the Indians. This disturbed many

On August 28, 1955, fourteen year old Emmett Till was beaten, tortured and shot. Then with barbed wire wrapped around his neck and tied to a large fan, his body was discarded into the Tallahatchi River. What was young Emmett’s offense that brought on this heinous reaction of two grown white men? When he went into a store to buy some bubble gum he allegedly whistled at a white female store clerk, who happened to be the store owner’s wife. That is the story of the end of Emmett Till’s life. Lynchings, beatings and cross-burning had been happening in the United States for years. But it was not until this young boy suffered an appalling murder in Mississippi that the eyes of a nation were irrevocably opened to the ongoing horrors of racism in

The lynching of Mary Turner is quite similar to the one Mame Lamkins experiences in “Kabnis.” There were mere changes Toomer did in retelling the Turner’s story, such as the “baby being impaled to a tree rather than ground underfoot (161). Impaling a person to a tree is a common trope regarding the lynchings that were occurring during that time. Regardless of the minor difference Turner’s real lynching story is similar to Lamkins’s in Cane, proving that Toomer acknowledged what was occurring in the South prior to his visit in 1921, and he based Lamkins on a real historic

It was hot, and sticky July afternoon in 1895 Lunenburg, Virginia when Edward Pollard found his wife’s, Lucy Jane Pollard, dead body lying on the ground with an axe next to it. She was on her way to set her hens when the murder happened. There were immediately suspects thrown into the case, three being African American women, Pokey Barnes, Mary Barnes, and Mary Abernathy, all of which had connections to the Pollard’s farm. Mary Barnes and Mary Abernathy both worked on the farm and Pokey Barnes was the Pollards neighbor and lived next to the farm. Mary Abernathy was the last person to see Lucy Jane Pollard alive and within 24 of the murder, she was in custody. The other suspect was Solomon Marable, the only male suspect in the case. He was

The “Lizzie Borden” nursery rhyme is about a daughter murdering her father and stepmother. The poem references the violent murder of Lizzie Borden’s parents in Massachusetts, in 1892. Although Lizzie was accused of the crime, the Borden case went unsolved due to lack of evidence. The police reports say that Lizzie murdered her stepmother, Abby Durfree Gray Borden, then her father, Andrew Jackson Borden with an axe, and due to its unsolved status, the case has gained infamy over the years. Because of its horrific details, the case gained great notoriety during its day, and as it has gone unsolved for 123 years, as well as the fact the “Lizzie Borden” rhyme has continued to circulate, it remains a topic of interest to the present day.

My class and I recently read the book And Then There Were None. In the story, there was a poem about indians that was put on the wall. This poem had a significant role upon the story that we read. This poem was what the murderer followed when he was killing the people in the story. I will discuss a few of the lines of the poem and how that person died in accordance to the line. The first line of the poem reads: Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. This was prefiguring when one of the people was poisoned when him and the others were eating and drinking. The killer followed closely to this line of the poem so he could strike fear into the guests, and so he could also let the people start

“Her scream went on, only to end in sudden silence as she struck the rocks 200 feet below” (Saul 35). The book I am reading Guardian is about a string of “accidental” deaths of people at the El Monte ranch and Sugarloaf campgrounds. Two of the deaths just so happen to be Maryanne Carpenter’s very good friends and put a giant twist in the lives of her family and her friends’ son who is also her godson. Not only is Maryanne now responsible for Joey she was also left a fortune because of the deaths. In this journal I will predict what the is actually murdering the people in sugarloaf, I will question who the “mountain man” is, and will evaluate the reasons for which Joey is under a watchful eye and why some people, including himself, suspect his

Spreading blood all over there walls and doors, one women threw a chicken’s head to represent the aunt. When the villagers were in the house the destroyed everything in it; the kitchen was filled with shatter glasses from the bowls and throwing the pots. The women next door entered their house with a broom swiping the negative dust above Kingston’s families head giving those negative spirts and every one of the villagers looking down upon Kingston’s family. When leaving their house, the villagers made sure that they took sugar and oranges and rubbed it upon the selves; it made sure they weren’t cursed from the disgrace the family had. Some stole the rest of the bowls and clothes that were not broken or torn. It was time for the baby to arrive and the no name women gave birth to her new born baby in a pit. Kingston’s remembers the next morning going to the family well noticing that it was plugged and noticed that the aunt had killed herself and her newborn baby in the family well. Making sure that Maxine Kingston doesn’t say a word to her father, her mother repeats again to her to not say a word to her father or to

Intuitively, the night that the group of Native American men were going to revenge Little Margaret’s death and kill Clarence, the Native American women were so in tune with what was happening even though there were not a part of the planning that one of the Native American women, Sadie, Silas’ girlfriend, takes it upon herself to kill Clarence before Silas does because she knows that if Silas kills Clarence, he will not be able to fulfill his dreams of becoming a mechanic and would spend his life in jail. She knew that if she killed him, she would not be a suspect and Silas would have an alibi.

The movie then ends, but from there you could predict that they took the boat and went off. That was the biggest difference made to the movie, but a similarity is that when each guest died another Indian figurine went

American Hugh Lombard and the beautiful Ann Clyde try to determine the identity of the murderer before they become the next victims. In the ten little Indians and then there were none, they both are very similar, they both have 10 people in it and one by one someone is being killed. Both all ten of the guest are all murderers and the host wants to make them punish for what they have done in their past. So the host kills one by one and however the poem goes that is how the next victim dies in both the ten little Indians and then there were

Consequently, the guests, one by one, are mysteriously murdered. The guests that remain soon realize that all of the deaths are linked to one thing: the nursery rhyme located in each of the bedrooms in the house. Unbelievable as that may be, the guests begin to turn on each other becoming very paranoid and suspecting everyone that poses a threat. And Then There Were None keeps the reader guessing until the very end when the unlikely subject, Justice Wargrave, the retired judge, is the mastermind behind the mass murders. Through his sense of justice and longing to invent the perfect murder mystery, Wargrave succeeded in killing all nine guests going unsuspected. In his confession, he describes how he constructed his perfect murders and how he killed himself so that no inspector could solve the mystery. The strange mystery of Indian Island remains unsolved for the detectives, but the guilt of knowing the murderer will linger on the reader’s lips.

In the suspenseful murder mystery entitled, “And Then There Were None”, 10 strangers all wonder “why are we here?” The people are invited to this to stay in a mansion on soldier island. Each person was invited to the island because they each committed some kind of murder. One by one they all die.

Agatha Christie, author of And Then There Were None used characterization and internal and external conflicts to portray the theme that when a person has done wrong, there is no way to escape punishment. Christie creatively developed these elements in And Then There Were None to teach her readers this lesson. Christie’s creativity and success as a murder mystery writer is why she is still considered the “Queen of Mystery”.

Now, if, during this brief period, Nelson had been surrounded by goblin grandmother's, killer dolls, scary clowns, and ghostface doctors of profound wisdom in killing, he would most inevitably and indubitably have been killed in no time. There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old witch, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of little children; and a killer clown who did such matter of collecting children and eating them; Nelson and Nature fought out the point between them. The result was, that, after a few struggles, Nelson breathed, sneezed, and proceeded to advertise to the inmates of the workhouse the fact of a new burden having been imposed upon the parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage, a voice, for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter. As Nelson gave this first proof of the free and proper action of his lungs, the patchwork coverlet which was carelessly flung over the iron bedstead, rustled; the pale face of a young woman was raised feebly from the pillow; and a faint voice imperfectly articulated the words, ‘Let me see the child, and kiss him before I die.’ Pennywise had been sitting with a scary smile on