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“He gasped for breath- then slid down off his chair, the glass falling from his hand.”(pg 74). This quote is telling you how the first victim dies. In the book And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie the theme is always expect the unexpected because no matter how he does it eventually everyone dies. Even when the book says how a character is going to die, they still put a different spin on it to keep the reader on edge.
The first reason that the theme is always expect the unexpected is because every character was wrong about who the murderer is. “Lombard said: Who are you plump for?”(who do think the murderer is?)Without any hesitation Vera answered: Dr. Armstrong”’(pg 169). Yes, technically Dr. Armstrong was partly responsible for the

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