And Then There Were None Literary Analysis

He is said to look intimidating, as the author says “Carefully, Mr. Justice Wargrave removed his false teeth and dropped them into a glass of water. The shrunken lips fell in. It was a cruel mouth now, cruel and predatory.” (81). When things start heading south and the guests begin to die they look to the judge for guidance. The judge agrees to help the remaining guests under the circumstance that all dangerous items are locked away in his possession, thus giving him more power over them. The Judge soon faked his own death leaving Vera to hang herself. In a way the author is portraying herself into the judge by describing him as one who tries to play the role of a higher

“Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were Nine…One little soldier boy left all alone; he went and hanged himself And then there were None” (Green). A group of 10 strangers are sent to the mysterious Soldier Island for a so called vacation. What they don’t know is that there is one murderer among them. During their first night on the island, a mysterious record reveals the darkest secret of each person, they are murderers. Soon after that, the first murder is committed and death is among them. As the crowd of ten diminishes, the china soldiers on the table do as well, until there are none. In And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, the theme of guilt is portrayed when Vera Claythorne hangs herself, when the record is played on the gramophone, and when Miss Emily Brent has flashbacks.

The first element that the author developed is suspense. The author had many examples of this literary element. On page 59 in Liberty it states, “ ‘You haven’t seen us, you understand?’ ” The 2 men in the glasses she had never seen before wanted to stay unknown. The text on page 57 says, “ ‘Trouble,’ Mami suggested, kicking the puppy away.” This makes you wonder will she start to ever like the dog or not. On page 58 the text says, “….Mister Victor coming around our house and going off to study with Papi to talk over important things in low, worried voices.” This causes a lot of suspense because why would he come around their house acting suspicious? It makes you as yourself. All of these quotes above give good examples of suspense. These quotes make the story interesting and add more details to the story.

Judge wrote the letter and explained that he was the killer because he wanted everyone to suffer and pay for the crimes that they have committed. He also admitted to pushing Dr. Armstrong off of a cliff, when in reality he promised to meet him by the cliff to discuss a plan. Then he returned back to the house, planted a noose on Vera’s bed and pretended to be dead. After Vera hung herself, he arranged a way of shooting himself that would look like someone else had done it and his body had been laid onto the bed. Judge did this with the desire for seeing the guilty being punished for what they have done and he was also dying and wanted to leave the world doing one last insanely crazy thing that he without a doubt achieved.

Both the television show and short story are murder mysteries. There was a way to know someone would die next in each type of murder mystery. In the short story an Indian figure would go missing. Mr. Rogers stated “It’s those little figures, sir. In the middle of the table. The little china figures. Ten of them, there were. I’ll swear to that, ten of them” (Christie 51). George Foyet from Criminal Minds would take an item from who he would kill next, and leave it with the most recent body (Davis). Also, both have a character that use to be in the military. Philip Lombard, General MacArthur and David Rossi have military experience. The time in which these were created come from different time periods. In And Then There Were None all the victims were trapped on an island, and had no way of getting out. Vera Claythorne noticed how the death goes along with the poem, and points it out several times throughout the story (Christie). In the television show, the victims were killed at random, throughout the city of Brooklyn (Davis). The contrasts between the short story and the episode of Criminal Minds shows that not all murder mysteries are

thematically by having the story and another that is behind it. The theme of the story is of one that is of love and how it reflects Shakespeare. The theme in it was love after grief. Due too the main characters loss. Having read this story brings aspects of Shakespeare's literature. The theme in itself can reflect through the works.

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.

ways as the each author’s intentions are to direct the reader to the main plot by describing the

The novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie was first published in 1939. The novel is about 10 people who were falsely led to an Indian Island by a man who goes by the name “U.N. Owen”, which the guests later found out stood for UNKNOWN. The 10 people were accused of murdering someone in their past. Slowly, the people each get murdered one by one. The people's guilt causes some to go crazy. One of the ten, Vera Claythorne, caught onto the way the people were being murdered. A nursery rhyme which was placed in each one of the guest's rooms told the way in which each person would be murdered. Ten Indian figurines, which stood for each one of the guests, sat on the table each one disappearing whenever someone died. Justice Wargrave tried to lead the guests into believing that since there was nobody else but them on the island one of the 10 people had to be the murderer. The people began to turn on each other and act very frantic and worrisome. As the last person, Vera Claythorne, died and the police noticed the island, a letter was found in a bottle in the ocean. The letter contained the confession of Lawrence Wargrave. Justice Wargrave said in the letter how he plotted the murder of the 10 people to fulfill his desire to murder and his desire to create justice. Each of the 10 guest's murders couldn’t be proven by the law but they were guilty. Wargrave used a childhood nursery rhyme, “Ten Little Indians”, to show the way he would murder each person. Wargrave faked

The Hound of the Baskervilles executes this through Dr. Mortimer’s report to Holmes and Watson. The entire chapter is the dialogue between the three and serves to introduce the reader into the story. While a more casual approach, it does not serve as a mysterious opening to a mysterious novel. And Then There Were None, has an unusual invitation to a secluded island. It does not give many details away and each character has their traits shown through their travels to the island. For

In moments of anxiety and uncertainty such as an unknown test grade or the buzzer beater in a sports game, suspense is felt in everybody's everyday life. In And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, suspense is used in a variety of situations to create a more engrossing plot. On a remote yet expensive island, ten guests are invited for reasons varying from chatting with old friends to getting a job as a servant. However, all the guests have something in common. They all have guilty consciences of murder!

Ten people were invited to Indian Island by U.N. Owen, a fake name for a maniac who has invited them to kill them. They have to survive with the items they brought and make alliances to survive. Who will be ‘the last little indian boy’ to survive? In the novel

The mystery novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie displayed and array of methods of suspense. One of the many ways the author created suspense was by dropping hints about the future and the final outcome. For instance, “‘Watch and pray. The day of judgement is at hand ... From recumbent position, he looked up at Mr. Blore with immense dignity: ‘I’m talking to you, young man. The day of judgement is very close at hand’ … But there as it happens, he is wrong” (Christie 17). This evidence is a perfect example of suspense since the author hints that Mr. Blore will die soon and unexpectedly. The author does a great job at using suspense to foreshadow Mr. Blore’s death by having a mysterious man tell him that “his day of judgement is

Most gothic literature novels show several similarities in their writing compared to one another. In the novel And Then There Were None and short story ¨The Rats in the Walls¨ the authors develop a gothic theme by expressing dark and mysterious tones. Christie and Lovecraft’s stories both have several similarities and differences. In And Then There Were None, Christie shows how abandoned houses that are isolated from surrounding places and people usually hold a mysterious history and stories. Although several years separate these writings in literature, both explore how ancient houses typically lead to secrets and mysteries.

Many deaths were caused on his hands. Trials weren’t allowed anymore and the idea of someone defending them. Just being accused of