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    1. Discuss the role of the poem “Ten Little Indians” in And Then There Were None. Why does the murderer choose to follow the poem so closely? What effect does this have on the characters A: The “Ten Little Indians” rhyme guides the progression of the novel. The singsong, childish verses tell the story of the deaths of ten Indian boys and end with the line that gives the novel its title: “and then there were none.” A framed copy of the rhyme hangs in every bedroom, and ten small Indian figures sit

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    Shining and in the story And Then There Were None. The dictionary defines violence as a behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something. As shown in both stories, some people may become violent after being trapped in an area for a long span of time. I believe that some people can become violent and I hope to prove it throughout this claim about human nature. In both The Shining and in the story And Then There Were None both Justice Wargrave and Jack Torrance

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    There Were none. Justice Wargrave is described in the book as a mean and cold old man, who is very commanding. He is known as the “hanging judge”- a ruthless judge who sends guilty verdicts to their deaths. If William Blore were the main character in And Then There were None, there would be a lot more chaos than needed. William Blore was very frantic and immature while Justice Wargrave was calm, emotionless. In the contrary Blore and Wargrave did have one thing in common and that was they were both

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    Pratham Desai And Then There Were None Agatha Christie And Then There Were None is a mysterious book, and growing up in a family that liked mystery; I have grown to like it too. Since I was little, I liked watching and reading about a mystery. One of my favorite movies of all time is Allegiant. It’s about two people that escape the enclosed city of Chicago for the first time they see all the bad stuff that happens to the rest of the world. One of my favorite mystery books is, Gone Girl. It

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    And Then There Were None: There's More Than Meets The Eye By Sophie Cuello-Ziu. “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see”- Edgar Allan Poe. Our perceptions of the things around us are often anything but the whole story. You may gain surface-level knowledge, but must delve beyond the surface to uncover the complete truth. You cannot believe anything you hear without verifying it, while what you see isn’t the truth. This theme is prevalent in a story where ten guests are invited to

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    that her novels like And Then There Were None follow. For instance, in the novel And Then There Were None, Justice Wargrave successfully carried out each of his ten murders without anyone on the island nor the police suspecting him. This shows that Justice Wargrave is an outstanding antagonist as he is able to accomplish his goal of murdering ten people. Justice Wargrave is also able to cover his tracks without anyone suspecting him. Therefore And Then There Were None follows the basic principle

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    And Then There Were None Literary Essay Agatha Christie's mystery story. "And Then There Were None," has an eerie setting that focuses on an isolated island with 10 guests who got a mysterious invitation to stay there. As they settle in, they start to notice that the island isn't as exciting as it seems after people start disappearing one by one. This sinister plot has an effect on the guests, highlighting the extreme paranoia they face throughout the book. The theme focuses on guilt and justice

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    you are thinking I want the reader to put down this book and think hey they really believe in what goes around, comes around. This is a theme, something an author chooses to use in a book to convey a message. Just like in the book, “And Then There Were None.” Sometimes people or things aren’t always who you think they are, people can always have a mask on over their real identity. Agatha Christie used the literary devices characterization and setting through lying, and misdirection to convey this theme

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    the island, regardless of which social class they belong to. And Then There Were None can be contrasted to classical mystery genre as it makes a break from the traditional arrangement in several ways. The generation of crime/mystery writing following Holmes saw many writers relying on a “Holmesian style” form of writing. Meaning that, the story would feature a

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    Ruth Ware’s “In a dark dark wood”, interpretes the ideas in Agatha Christie's novel “And there were None” in a quite similar, yet new way. Both novels are set in isolation. While Christie’s novel is set on an isolated island, hard to reach and impossible to leave alone, Ware decided to create a more mysterious darker setting by mainly focusing on the darkness of an isolated house in a forest. Neither one of the locations has the prerogative to external communication, making the story revolve and

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