And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie is a deceptive and engaging novel regarding ten suspicious individuals who arrive on a mysterious island. This inexplicable setting was established at the start of the story to have been named Soldier Island. On arrival, each of the ten individuals was accused, seemingly incontrovertibly, guilty of committing murder prior to their disembarkation. The accuser claims that although the characters may not have committed murder directly, they have each perpetrated the immorality in their own ways. As the story progresses, people begin to be murdered themselves in strange correspondence with the disappearance of ten small china figures shaped like soldiers. As these characters perish, the perplexing true

Through her riveting fiction, Agatha Christie has crafted a story in which her tone is undoubtedly responsible for the conquering of the sanity and wit of the characters. By allowing this remorseful accountability to surprisingly overcome and warp some characters’ actions, it allows the plot to further develop and the identity of the killer to remain concealed amidst anarchy and turmoil. This is delineated on page 1, when the narrator said, “A picture rose clearly before her mind. Cyril’s head, bobbing up and down, swimming to the rock…” The reader is able to undoubtedly observe how the author has illustrated a feeling of remorse through the dialogue. The author's tone is clearly tense, and unstable. Agatha Christie impressively uses the narrator to express Vera’s thoughts and emotions that allow the reader to experience what the other characters could not. The author's tone in characters’ thoughts are quite dark and remorseful. This portrays the remorseful accountability that the characters experience for their guilty actions and the consequences being executed because of them. Agatha Christie demonstrates her capability of constructing enigmatic conditions in which her fictional identities interact and

Many characters in the novel drastically evolved from their initial demeanor from the beginning of the novel. A prime of example of this is the character General John Macarthur, who at the start of the story was intent and determined of his innocence. At the beginning of the novel, on page the narrator stated, “Yes he’d sent Richmond to his death and he wasn’t sorry.” Here, we can see that Christie is laying the base characteristics of the characters, preparing them for events to come. This allows the reader to have an underlying understanding of the characters in order to judge the alteration in thoughts and demeanor later in the novel. Conjointly, Agatha Christie’s use of characterization has allowed the reader to infer the deception of Macarthur's words. Christie’s terse and concise dialogue demonstrated on page Macarthur cried, “But it does come! The blessed relief when you know that you’ve done with it all… you haven’t got to carry the burden any longer.” Christie has conveyed Macarthur’s genuine understanding of his actions and the remorse it warrants. Christie’s development of Macarthur is extreme and dramatic, but vital to her unprecedented