Abandonment In Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None

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Agatha Christie’s, And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie’s bestselling novel, And Then There Were None, follows the thriller of ten strangers who were all tempted to travel to an island through various forms of enticement. Such lures included offers of employment, a beautiful vacation spot, or to see old friends again, but none of the ten truly knew what was to come of their visit. Between all the guests, they had but one thing in common: their involvement in the deaths of human beings, without their conviction as a result. Each of the group avoided imprisonment through either being able to prove that their involvement was not what caused the fatality, or through bending their way through the eyes of the law, but all the same, they were …show more content…

Wargrave’s plan involved manipulating one of the other characters, Dr. Armstrong, into helping the former fake his own death, and in doing so, fool the others into believing the former judge had died as well. The way he fooled Armstrong was quite brilliant as he convinced the doctor that in staging his own death, the “real murderer” would be so shocked that they would incriminate himself immediately. Unfortunately, when Wargrave was successful with his plan, he was able to kill Armstrong and the others without suspicion as the remainder of the victims thought the man was already dead. Moreover, upon the final death of Vera, Wargrave immediately restaged his death and killed himself upon tossing a confession letter into the ocean within a glass bottle.

Within this work, the most poignant occurrence was undeniably the correspondence of the 10 deaths with the poem that is cited at the beginning of the novel. The poem entitled, Ten Little Indians, appears multiple times in the book as the victims begin to realize the relation of the murders with the poem by Frank Green. The first stanza in the poem states, “Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there

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