Essay on And Then There Were None by Agatha Chrisitie

Imagine that you, a master murder, and eight other people are stranded on an island. At first, it seems all right, but then people start dropping dead like flies until the very last one. In the novel And Then There Were None (ATTWN) written by Agatha Christie, the mystery elements that were used were: Main conflict, setting, characterization, and the author’s techniques of giving clues.

Fear is an interesting feeling fueled by our mind and imagination. In the book And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, Vera Claythorne and Doctor Armstrong find out just what fear can make a person think and do.

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In fact, the main theme of this story is to be careful of who you trust, for it is easy to be deceived. For example, Justice Wargrave sets traps for all the other guests, he tricks Dr. Armstrong into helping him fake his death and Agatha Christie fools her readers by giving them false impressions. Firstly, the other guests on the island are easily deceived by Justice Wargrave, because they fall for several of his traps. For instance,

In the Novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie I think I would make very good friends with William Blore. I see a lot of him in myself For example he is secretive because when he first goes to Soldier Island he lied to the other visitors about his real name(25).So he could hide his true identity and spy on the others like Mr.Owen told him to do but later on that night a gramophone plays a disc that calls out everyone's names and a crime that they have committed (46-47) but the visitors didn’t hear Mr.Davis name called. They started to suspect who Mr.Davis (William Blore) really was. calm, and a down to earth dude.

Our pasts shape our future, unless we never leave our past to pursue our future. In an ever changing world, humans must adapt and conform to the transformations around them or else they will be left behind. In the short story “A Rose for Emily,” William Faulkner uses the deep inner conflicts of the protagonist, Miss Emily, and her parallelism to the setting, her mansion, to convey the struggles and isolation that accompany a mind and life that refuses to escape the past. Miss Emily struggles with her inner self as she continues to grow older on the outside, but refuses to let go of her past.

“The man fell back instantly and lay with blood bubbling from the hole in his forehead. The boy was lying in his lap with no expression on his face at all” (McCarthy, pg. 66). In other words, the boy was so shocked by the situation he was in; this caused him to change his attitude towards strangers. In the same manner The Island has important character development that causes the protagonists to change their behaviours. For instance, when Jordan Two Delta and Lincoln Six Echo escaped and went to Tom Lincoln’s house. In this scene there was an altercation that resulted in the client –Tom Lincoln- dying, which was a great example of how the characters developed. After this scene the protagonist realized how careless and willing they were to hurt others in order to get the clones back to the facility. The scene allowed the protagonist -Lincoln Six Echo- to develop and take extra precautions to maintain safety. Six Echo would always be on his toes; look back every so often, and though through his plans. This leads into the theme that is related to brute force which is that people will do anything to survive.

And Then There Were None is a plot filled mystery written by Agatha Cristine with over 100 million copies sold.This book was published in 1939 and has forever changed the way we read literature. It is about 10 people that are guilty from different crimes that are trapped on an island together. While they are waiting for their mysterious host to come, one by one they start to die and disappear following the nursery rhyme that they all had hanging in their room. In 1945, René Clair directed and produced the amazing book and transformed it to a life-changing movie.This film won the both the Golden Leopard and Best Direction Award Overall, some of the changes that were made when making the movie were necessary, while others were not effective.

Vera felt as though it was only right to follow the poem. Every time somebody died or disappeared a little china figure would break or disappear but at the end Vera toke the last one standing with her as a token saying that they made it to the end. While she was hanging herself the little figure broke, “The little china figure fell from her hand. It rolled unneeded and broke against the fender” (Christie 268). She also thought that’s what Hugo wanted her to because she was responsible for his nephew death.

In Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Justice Wargrave arranges the death of 10 people in the order of how guilty they are about the crime they have committed. He plans the way each person dies to coincide with the “Ten Little Indians” nursery rhyme. Wargrave also selects special ways for each person to die. The manner in which Dr. William Armstrong dies is slow and painful, just as the way he killed Mrs. Louisa Clees. He gets exactly what he deserves. Mr. Wargrave had selected an appropriate manner of death for Armstrong. The question is “Does Wargrave get the order correct?” For Dr. William Armstrong, he does.

And Then There Were None, written by Agatha Christie, is a thrilling murder mystery that always keeps the reader on the edge of their seat. Ten people, with different backgrounds and occupations, are sent to Soldier Island, which was once known as a party destination. Unknowing of who sent them there and why, the ten people notice a classic nursery rhyme framed, and hanging in each bedroom. The rhyme was about ten soldiers who slowly start to die and then end with none alive. One by one the new people to the island begin to die, dying exactly how the nursery rhyme says each will go. The guests conclude that the murderer must be one of them, since there were no other beings on the island.

Agatha Christie’s mystery novel And Then There Were None lacks a wide variety of themes; however, one theme does prevail through the story, the theme of justice. Traditionally, justice is served through the process of detectives solving a case and the courts ruling to convict a suspected individual. Christie uses an abnormal form of justice in this mystery; she makes the judge, jury, and executioner all one person, Lawrence Wargrave. The killing of the nine other people by Wargrave in And Then There Were None also seems justified in the fact that they all killed or refused to help someone survive an event in his or her past. Wargrave picks people who slipped past convictions and brought justice where it has been avoided. In his manuscript,

And then there were none is a fantastic story chronicling the misery and murders on Indian Island. Throughout the book, we get hints as to what the author, Agatha Christie, is trying to reveal to us as readers. The main theme in this novel is “giving people back the justice that they have earned for themselves”. This theme is evident in the story as initially seen in the protagonist or criminal, Justice Wargrave, who strongly believes in justice and gives it to all the people invited on the island. They were once murders and he thinks they deserve to be punished for their actions because that is how justice works in his mind. Agatha shows danger in justice and presents it as a harsh, rigid concept. A quote that demonstrates this idea being

Although every well-written murder mystery does not have fixed mode because the writers of detective story always want to give their readers a unique feeling, suspense and surprise are essential and indispensable features in a well-written murder mystery. (Alewyn 184) In Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, she fully combines suspense and surprise, through the omniscient point of view and poignant plot. Therefore, And Then There Were None is a well-written murder mystery. The omniscient point of view means a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story. (Abrams 233) Plot is the series of events that form the story of a novel, play, and film (Abrams 294). I will show the suspense and surprise through the analysis of the narrative, rising action, climax, and falling action as well as use specific textual evidence from this fiction novel to prove it.

The book “And then there were None,” by Agatha Christie, thus far, I feel has an unrealistic plot, but the format and writing style of this story makes it very intriguing to read. I find it odd how ten strangers get a letter from someone they are not too familiar with and regardless of the fact that some of them haven 't even meet the host’s, all ten characters decide to accept the invitation to Soldier Island. It seems unrealistic because almost no one would offer you a free vacation unless it was a scam, but the characters didn 't seem faced by the sudden and odd invitation or thought to look any further into the matter at hand. I believe the story takes place in Europe, because the letter said the train was from