Literary Analysis: And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None Essay Imagine being stranded on an island with ten strangers. One by one each person dies until you were the last one left. Ten strangers were brought to the island of Devon to unknowingly serve their time for what they did in their pasts. In the novel And Then There Were None written by Agatha Christie, the mystery elements that were used were: main conflict, setting, characterization, and the author’s techniques of giving clues. As the reader followed the plot of the novel, the main conflict is the person versus person or the deaths of the little Indian boys. Lawrence Wargrave has cancer and has little time left to live. Before he died he needed to know that ten particular people served for what they did in their past. He did this by inviting each person to the mansion, stranding them there and killing each one of them. To get away with all of the killings Wargrave acted as one of the victims in the house. “They know therefore that one of the ten people on the island was not a murderer in any sense of the word, and it follows paradoxically that, that person must logically be the murderer.” (274) As the story went on Wargrave was always blaming other people and thinking foolish of people when someone thought he was guilty ”Her husband was

The reader was always one step ahead of the characters which I personally thought was a great point of view because we got to see how the characters acted while they were trying to figure out who the murderer was. It was interesting how the setting was on the island of Devon because they were stranded with miles of water on each side of them. At the end, we found out the murderer was Wargrave which meant it was a person versus person conflict as Wargrave was against the house members. In all, And Then There Were None was a great mystery book if you’re looking for an intriguing, suspenseful and fast-paced