And Then There Were None Analysis

At some point in your life you will probably see sides of people you have never seen before. That could be a heroic side or an adventurous side or even a beastly side. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie is all about mystery and suspense building up to bring out the major question, Who is the killer? There are ten people on Soldier Island who don’t have the indication that they are all victims of a murderer who is out to kill them for their crimes. The strange thing is, that the murderer is killing everyone according to the “Ten Little Soldier Boys” poem. Once there is only two people left on the island, Vera and Lombard, because of human consciousness Vera suspects that Lombard is the killer And shoots him. Then Vera, the last person

The characters had a reason of being on Soldier Island. That reason was quite clear when a voice on a radio player says, “You were charged with the following indictments…”(Christie 46). After the voice states all of the crimes that the each character is guilty for, there reason of being on the island is because of the crimes each one has committed. Although not every character was guilty of the innocent soul that he or she aussimily killed; more than many of them were undoubtedly guilty of there crimes of killing poor innocent souls for there own well doing. These crimes just show you what type of person there really are. For example Vera Claythorne was responsible for assumedly being guilty of drowning a little boy. In Veras case she really did not commit the crime but she still witnessed it. She told the little boy not to go too far into the water but the little boy still did anyway; drowning himself as a punishment for the act. But later into the book Vera suspects Lombard as the killer and kills him even after concluding that her nature is quite the opposite of what she had just done. All of this concludes how exactly seemingly innocent, normal people like me and you are capable of heinous acts when there nature will tell you