And Then There Were None Analysis

10 guests receive an invitation to a mysterious island called soldier island, which has recently been bought by an unknown buyer. But all of these guests had different reasons to come to the island, but they all have a dirty secret. Each one of them is guilty and has killed a person intentionally. But the guests slowly die 1 by 1, day by day, minute by minute, trying to figure out who the killer is and if he is among one of them. "He said we were all going to die - he said he was waiting for the end. He - he frightened me..."(Christie 163). Vera was starting to worry and thought that everyone would pay for their sins and die. Even though they all start dying, their deaths correlate to the poem “Ten Little Indians poem” but the china dolls start missing as well as the people start dying. There were a handful of guests that were suspicious, but Wargrave was a highly suspected guest. In the book And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie, Justice Wargrave is portrayed as a naive guest, but inside he truly is a psychopath with a strange urge to kill.

If he didn’t utilize his cunningness and his intelligence, he would’ve been caught red-handed, and would have only been able to execute 2-3 people. He used his intelligence to gain Armstrong’s and Lombard’s trust, taking advantage of their gullibleness. He made his death look misleading and deceived the other guests to make it look like someone killed him as well. This made him look like an innocent guest and not a homicidal fool. He said in front of everyone "From now on, it is our task to suspect each and every one amongst us.” (Christie 165). It looked like he was simply trying to make it look like he knew nothing about the killer and he was just trying to pinpoint this