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Soldier Island In And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie

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People come to the island in search of the missing. They find ten dead bodies and a note. The title of this mystery novel is, And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie. In this story, ten people with horrible pasts are invited for different reasons to an island called Soldier Island. Most of them are invited for different reasons, for example, one character was supposed to be getting a job as a secretary for a man named Mr. Owen, and other characters thought they were seeing old friends. Soon after they first get dropped off at the island, people start being killed. This leaves the living with one question… Who is the killer? Dr. Armstrong was a recovering alcoholic that did not deserve the fate he met, Emily Brent was an old, religious …show more content…

This quote is from Claythorne’s past, “He had even complimented her on her presence of mind and courage, she remembered. For an inquest it could not have gone better. And Mrs. Hamilton had been kindness itself to her-only Hugo-but she wouldn’t think of Hugo,” (Christie, pg. 16). This quote shows that everyone believed she had not killed the boy and that it was just a freak accident. People praised her for her level-headedness during the incident. Vera had killed the boy because the man she loved would inherit a lot of money. Everyone believed the boy had just drowned, but Hugo, the man Vera loved, knew that she killed the boy, and therefore did not love her back. Even though Vera may have felt guilty and remorse for her actions, she still deserved the fate she met at the end of the story. This quote showed Wargrave’s plan to have Vera kill herself, “It was an interesting psychological experiment. Would the consciousness of her own guilt, the state of nervous tension consequent on having just shot a man, be sufficient, together with the hypnotic suggestion of the surroundings, to cause her to take her own life? I thought it would. I was right. Vera Claythorne hanged herself before my eyes where I stood in the shadow of my wardrobe. (Christie, pgs. 261-262). This quote shows that Claythorne was driven to kill herself because of her own guilt, because she has now not only killed a young child, but she has also killed a man and had tension from that horrific experience. Wargrave killed in a theatrical way with the poem of the Ten Little Indians. Getting Vera to kill herself was the final step to complete the poem and with the suggestion of the noose hanging from the ceiling in her room, she took her

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