Agatha Christie And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie was very happy with her life in the early to the mid nineteen hundreds. This was also a time where she was at the peak of her writings. In nineteen-thirty-nine one of Christies famous works was published. This novel was originally published with the title of, Ten Little N*****s, but was changed to, And Then There Were None, due to offense (Worsley). The whole novel is centered around a nursery rhyme. The nursery rhyme goes through and tells of ten little Indian boys who each die in an awful way. Each of the guests in the house in Christie’s novel follow this nursery rhyme to their death. Lucy Worsley, english historian and author discusses the book as a whole. This novel takes ten people, with secrets of murder to an eerie house on the Devon Coast of Torquay (Hughes). Each person received an invitation from someone with the name, U.N Owens. One by one each guest is accused of a murder that haunts them throughout the story. Every day that the novel progresses so does the number of deaths. Each character is trying to analyze who the killer is, everyone gets questioned as the killer which causes tension with all of the characters. This novel’s focus is strongly on wealth accumulation, occupations and the role of women (N.Page.). In this books Agatha Christie kills off the wealthy first and most importantly makes the murderer a female character. By making a woman …show more content…
With the negativity of her father and her mothers emphasis on being a singer she created some of the strongest works and that remains true today. Her awards and recognitions proved her as a great success who continued writing up until her death, at age eighty-five. Christie still remains popular today in all sixty-six of her novels. Mystery writer, Agatha Christie’s own life and the influence of the twentieth century society greatly impacted the writing of And Then There Were None many