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Comparison Of Death On The Nile And And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie
In both ‘Death on the Nile’ and ‘And Then There Were None’ author Agatha Christie's characters are very naive. All of her novels have a common theme. In the author’s view, humanity is portrayed as gullible, with too much faith in the world. These traits, in the author’s view, lead to their destruction.
In 'And Then There Were None’ the characters receive a letter that invites them to a vacation island. Every last character accepts without ever knowing the host, and arrive at the island as they were asked. The only way that the characters would have gone to the island would be if they were naive enough to believe the obviously fake cover story. In 'Death On The Nile’ the main character Linnet, believes that Simon loves her and not Jackie.

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