Why Is And Then There Were None Important To The Book

And Then There Were None is a classic mystery novel by Agatha Christie where 10 people receive letters from a mysterious U.N. Owen asking them to Soldier Island to stay for the summer holiday. In each of their rooms they find a nursery rhyme telling of the deaths of 10 soldiers. The first night on the island during dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of murder. Then one by one they all begin to die. I believe that And Then There Were None would be a good addition to the curriculum for many reasons. One reason is, it is a very interesting book. First, it takes almost no time for the action to start happening. The very first person is killed in chapter three on the first night. Also, there are no parts in the book where nothing important is happening. There is rarely any fluff throughout the book, nearly everything written is important to the comprehension of the book. Also, the book moves along very quickly. There are no opportunities for readers to get bored because the murders happened very close once the first two took place. I believe that a book being interesting is very important for a book in the curriculum.
One possible theme could be vigilante justice. At the end of the book, it is revealed that Lawrence Wargrave chose to kill these people because of a lust to cause death, but he would not kill an innocent creature so he picked out nine people that he knew were guilty of murder to kill. Another possible theme could be guilt. On the very first night when the message plays Mrs. Rogers faints presumably because she is scared someone knows her secret. Also near the very end of the book as Vera Claythorne re-enters the house she finds a noose hanging from the ceiling where Wargrave had left it for her as a test to see if her own guilt would drive her to hang herself, he was not disappointed. This is one reason it would be a good addition to the