And Then There Were None Narrative

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Don’t we all enjoy reading a good murder mystery? All of the suspicion and the thrill can really keep you hooked. You feel as if you could never put the book down because you just need to know what happened next. In And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie divided each chapter into sections and included an epilogue with the murderer’s, Justice Wargrave, point of view. Since she chose this as her style of writing throughout the whole book, I was able to interpret and comprehend the book with a better understanding of the character’s feelings, who the murderer really was, and the reason behind the whole mystery. To begin, by dividing the chapters into sections, I was able to have the knowledge of the emotions that the character felt or went through. “I wanted to kill… Yes, I wanted to kill… The innocent must not suffer” (Christie 288). While reading Justice’s letter, I begin to see his motives, and how he saw things. He described himself as “restrained” and “hampered” stating that “a rhyme of my infancy came back into my mind” (Christie 288). I was confused, to begin, while reading this because I still could not understand the importance of his mission to quickly gather ten victims, nor did I understand how he managed to kill all guests. This epilogue is extremely important towards the book and the mystery. As read in the text, “...we must carry out our plan into effect... That I must appear to be the next victim...once I was supposed to be dead I could move about the house and spy upon the unknown murderer” (Christie 295). He continually goes on to explain how his plan worked. This, to me, explained the whole mystery. In conclusion, the epilogue written in Justice Wargrave’s point of view is influential regarding the whole story, and how I understood many things within the

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