Examples Of Foreshadowing In And Then There Were None

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In the mystery novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, the author utilizes the poem “Ten Little Indians” as foreshadowing. The poem entails the covert plan that Justice Wargrave used to malevolently murder the people on the island. The poem is used as foreshadowing, for it is the guideline for the murders and shows how each murder will be executed. This makes it easy to follow along and see how the next person will be killed. Justice Wargrave decides to follow the poem tenaciously because it serves him some kind of bizarre pleasure. Wargrave sees his grand plan as a type of art, therefore he is very meticulous with what he does. His stealthy tactics throughout the novel causes the characters to be oblivious to the fact that the poem