And Then There Were None Similarities

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“Your past will come back to haunt you” this quote emphasises my claim that fear can bring out your darkest demons. Throughout this essay I will analyze the similarities between the book And Then There Were None and the movie Devil. These stories have a massive amount of comparisons, but the one I will be mentioning is the similarities between the plot, characters,and the setting. The plot for the movie Devil started with Five strangers' one begins with an elevator ride in an Philadelphia office tower. But, what happens next is anything but ordinary. The elevator gets stuck, and the trapped passengers, who expected to be together just a few minutes, now face And There Were None started off with Ten people, each with a guilty secret, are lured to an isolated island off the Devon coast. Shortly after …show more content…
Tony Janekowski from Devil and Tony Marston shows the strong similarities both Janekowki and Marston was responsible for a hit and run causing the death of two people in the progress. This similarity is too strong to overlook not only is there a similarity in the crime they commit but also in their first names. Sarah Caraway and Vince McCormick from the movie Devil was just as money hungry as Thomas and Ethel Rogers from the story And Then There Were None. Sarah Caraway was convicted of three counts of blackmailing rich married men and was currently in the process of divorcing her husband and squirreling away his money. Vince McCormick started a Ponzi scheme and bilked lots of people out of their money. Thomas and Ethel Rogers let their former employer die because they stood to inherit money from her. Ben Larson from the movie Devil was just as ruthless as Philip Lombard from the story And Then There Were None. Ben Larson had a record of several assaults, including the beating of a guy into a coma with a baseball bat. Philip Lombard killed many in

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