Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Agatha Christie's And then there were none

My group has chosen the mystery genre and our first book is And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, one of the bestselling mystery authors. This book is also called Ten Little Indians which, in a way, gives away the book. The book started off with small sections that introduced all the characters for the story, beginning with Mr. Justice Wargrave. From the short one page and a half description about what he was doing, I have noticed (along with the class' help because of a Do Now) that he's of high status, educated, and old. This seems mostly accurate because he was sitting in a "first-class smoking carriage", "lately retired from the bench", and "ran an interested eye through the political news in the Times." Christie writes this book in a format where the history of the characters will be discovered later on through their conversations and actions. So far in the story, people have been dying according to the rhyme and the characters are suspecting one another while trying to save themselves because they don't know who is next, they just know how they are going to die.


The past works I have seen now connects a lot with this book, so I would say that they are using this book as their base since this book was written before all those works were. For example, I watched Angels and Demons and in that movie, all the deaths were planned and hinted. Also the video that Ben posted up about Clues seemed similar to my book as well, everyone in the house for Clues had a certain past that made them all similar, which is the same in my book.

So far I would recommend people reading this because it's pretty interesting. It would be best to not read this at night or maybe if you want, you could...Ten Little Indians is suppose to be a nursery rhyme.

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