And Then There Were None Conflict
Stuck on an island. All guilty of murder. Each are dying one at a time left and right. Who is causing all of this, why are we here? In, “And Then There Were None”, a fiction mystery novel by Agatha Christie 10 guests are invited to Indian Island. Each guest dies one by one and leaves the remaining guests in fear and suspicion.
In this mystery novel, the main conflict is person versus person, otherwise known as the guests versus the murderer. All the guests that are invited to the island are guilty of killing another person or persons. The house, on the island, there is nursery rhymes of the 10 little indians on walls in every guest's room. (Page 31) The centerpiece of the table in the dining room is 10 little china figures of 10 little indian boys. (Page 40) Each death goes accordingly with the nursery rhyme. All that the guests know is that the murderer goes by the name of U. N. Owen, until Wargrave made an inference. Wargrave stated, “Nevertheless I am strongly of the opinion that ‘Mr.Owen’ is on the island.” and “It is perfectly clear. Mr.Owen is one of us…” (Page 135) The guests don’t know who Mr.Owen is. This is a problem to all of the guest characters because eventually as they quickly find out, each one of them are going to somehow die. The conflict isn’t necessarily resolved as all the guests ended up dead. Including the murderer …show more content…
The novel went back and forth reeling in the reader then slowing down the pace again with a person versus person conflict. The setting was in the early 1900’s, England on a fictional island, Indian Island. Which made it so none of the guests could get back to the mainland and are stuck on the island with a murderer who which they don’t know. And lastly the author hinted clues throughout the novel involving a characters feelings about the island. Over all, And Then There Were None, is surely a hard book to put down for any mystery
In this mystery novel, the main conflict is person versus person, otherwise known as the guests versus the murderer. All the guests that are invited to the island are guilty of killing another person or persons. The house, on the island, there is nursery rhymes of the 10 little indians on walls in every guest's room. (Page 31) The centerpiece of the table in the dining room is 10 little china figures of 10 little indian boys. (Page 40) Each death goes accordingly with the nursery rhyme. All that the guests know is that the murderer goes by the name of U. N. Owen, until Wargrave made an inference. Wargrave stated, “Nevertheless I am strongly of the opinion that ‘Mr.Owen’ is on the island.” and “It is perfectly clear. Mr.Owen is one of us…” (Page 135) The guests don’t know who Mr.Owen is. This is a problem to all of the guest characters because eventually as they quickly find out, each one of them are going to somehow die. The conflict isn’t necessarily resolved as all the guests ended up dead. Including the murderer …show more content…
The novel went back and forth reeling in the reader then slowing down the pace again with a person versus person conflict. The setting was in the early 1900’s, England on a fictional island, Indian Island. Which made it so none of the guests could get back to the mainland and are stuck on the island with a murderer who which they don’t know. And lastly the author hinted clues throughout the novel involving a characters feelings about the island. Over all, And Then There Were None, is surely a hard book to put down for any mystery