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

left, hangs herself. The murderer ends up being revealed through a letter that the murder wrote to explain how he did it. The murderer ends up being someone that you would probably not suspect. Which comes back to our original question, Who is the killer? Agatha Christie uses the characters external conflicts and internal conflicts along with the characters past actions to reveal the theme of how normal people are capable of heinous acts.
Agatha Christie uses the characters never ending past to illustrate how normal people are capable of heinous acts.

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

otherwise.
Agatha christie then uses the characters individual thoughts to paint the picture of how normal people are capable of heinous acts. Throughout the book the characters have thoughts and feelings towards other characters and other conditions. This however is quite normal and is quite expected of the author to do so. But these thoughts and feelings have a deeper meaning. Some may not see it but the thoughts that the charters explain tells you what type of person they really are. This point sort of ties in with the characters pasts in some ways. The way the characters feel or think and what they think about causes you to give an impression that they are either guilty or innocent. Take Dr. Armstrong for example. “He thought: Drunk-that’s what it was-drunk...And I operated!...I killed her all right…”. This thought or even action of his gives you the thought and feeling that perhaps he killed the women on purpose and operated on purpose. This action of Armstrong's also gives you the impression that, just maybe he could be the killer. This ties in with the characters past because there past is also constructing their thoughts and feelings now. There thoughts and feelings are building the characters, showing you sides of them that you probably did not see where there.