I have read the murder mystery novel And Then There Were None, that is written by English writer Agatha Christie, publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, year of the first publication: 1939 (as Ten Little Niggers), number of pages: 252. This novel is known as her masterpiece and said to be the most difficult and popular of her books.
In this excellent book by narrative techniques she describes the Soldier Island’s landscape, the weather that sometimes seems gloomy and threatening, each of the character. They have some paragraphs with hidden information that reveal their personality, iniquity and history. She begins restoring the past, and we readers discover secrets in the main characters’ life…
Ten people as guests are invited to an island by different pretexts, e.g. to get offer of employment, to have a great holiday, to meet friends. Christie uses this special island as a motif. All of them have been involved in criminal actions and deaths of others, but either escaped justice or committed an act that was not subject to legal sanction. They are informed by a gramophone recording after dinner the first night that they are invited to the island to pay for their „crimes”. They are the only people on the island, and cannot escape due to the distance from the …show more content…
She can skillfully uses the narrative techniques to express the main information and control the progress of the story. In this case, this murder mystery examines justice in a strange way: by making the victims of murder who committed murder themselves and through the act of murder. The action of a detective solves the crime and ensures that the murderer pays for his or her deed. Judge Wargrave does the work of detective and murderer by picking out those who are guilty and punishing them. I think that these acts of justice on Indian Island are unacceptable and
In this excellent book by narrative techniques she describes the Soldier Island’s landscape, the weather that sometimes seems gloomy and threatening, each of the character. They have some paragraphs with hidden information that reveal their personality, iniquity and history. She begins restoring the past, and we readers discover secrets in the main characters’ life…
Ten people as guests are invited to an island by different pretexts, e.g. to get offer of employment, to have a great holiday, to meet friends. Christie uses this special island as a motif. All of them have been involved in criminal actions and deaths of others, but either escaped justice or committed an act that was not subject to legal sanction. They are informed by a gramophone recording after dinner the first night that they are invited to the island to pay for their „crimes”. They are the only people on the island, and cannot escape due to the distance from the …show more content…
She can skillfully uses the narrative techniques to express the main information and control the progress of the story. In this case, this murder mystery examines justice in a strange way: by making the victims of murder who committed murder themselves and through the act of murder. The action of a detective solves the crime and ensures that the murderer pays for his or her deed. Judge Wargrave does the work of detective and murderer by picking out those who are guilty and punishing them. I think that these acts of justice on Indian Island are unacceptable and