And Then There Were None And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie is a murder mystery in which none of the victims are innocent and all the characters have strong feelings of guilt about themselves. ... I believe that Agatha Christie tried to show two main ideas in this novel: how our conscience affects all of us and that justice will always be served in the end. All the characters (invited guests) on Indian Island were guilty of murdering someone but were never found guilty by a court of law. The quote "There was a silence - a comfortable replete silence. ... Christie shows that th...

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Of all the books I "ve read this year I most enjoyed And Then Their was None by: Agatha Christie. ... The setting was very realsitc, it was almost as if you were there. ... You get so caught up in all the descriptions that it's almost like you were watching a movie. ... And how they each were persecuted for killing another person or persons. ... The setting is so real that it feels like you are there experiencing it with the characters. ...

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Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" takes place on Indian Island, off the coast of England. ... There are ten main characters in this story, some more protaganistic then others, but all play a role in the story. ... Also they first take notice of little Indian statues on the dinning room table, where once they are sure were ten, there only stand six. ... He then sites how he killed himself in such a way that it looks as though he had been shot and then laid on the bed, rather then it seeming like he committed suicide. Reading this I believe that Christie wanted the reader to l...

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Series such as "The Babysitters Club ", "A Series of Unfortunate Events ", and "Ramona Quimby " were several to thousands that I enjoyed reading. In the seventh grade my literacy took an abrupt change from fantasy to mystery when my English class read the book "And Then There Were None " by Agatha Christie. ... After reading this book, I became very fond of mystery novels; I continued to read mystery novels by Nancy Drew and Agatha Christie, as well as the Sherlock Holmes novels. ... My middle school years were the toughest years of writing for me. ...

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Detective fiction always contain similar elements, since the Edgar Poe wrote "Murders in the Rue morgue" in 1841, and although "the adventure of the speckled band- by Conan Doyle and "The Affair at the Victory Ball- by Agatha Christie, were written many years apart, they share the same elements of those in "Murders in the Rue morgue." ... The costumes were based on a set of china figures forming part of Eustace Beltane's collection. ... Mr Davidson then returned to the ball, not as his original character Pierrot but Harlequin another character. ... As the ball was masked, and there were l...

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Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. ... By the time of the First World War there was a whole new generation of young soldiers who not only could read but, very important, were able for the first time in the history of war to write letters home describing war in all its unheroic horror. ... There is also the fact that there is much more literature, more cultural production in general, in the twentieth century than in any previous period. ... But all through what might be term...

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