And Then There Were None - Book Review

Compton

An eye for an eye.

The book, "And then there were none", is a great murder mystery novel. The mastermind U.N Owen decided to create a thrilling story for his amusement and curiosity in murder. He executed many plans that in the end made the story very excellent. One of these many plans included how the least guilty die first and the guiltiest die last, and suffer the most. U.N killed these people in a specific order, which was least guilty first and guiltiest last. Two characters that showed different levels of guilt, and completely different deaths, are Marston, and Vera. Marston was the first to die, and Vera was the last. These characters show Owens plan was effective. These characters also show different levels of guilt, and how their crimes affect them.

Marston is a young man in his prime that drives a nice car and is living a good life. He is full of pride and he is full of himself. He thinks he is good looking and rich and basically a God. His crime was running over two kids while speeding. This is a bad crime for a man like him, a young man. He was guilty of this crime, but he didn't show any guilt. He didn't seem to care that much about his murders. In the story all of the characters were sharing their history, when he was asked about his murder he said, " Well I was talking about bad luck for me, but of course you're right, sir, it was bad luck for them." This quote shows how he cared more about his car than those lives. His death was quick and easy, he died from drinking cyanide. This death was quick, after a chug of his drink he died fast and easy. He died first because his crime wasn't that bad compared to the others, and he showed least guilt. He wasn't going to suffer more than anyone else because he didn't care about it.

Vera is a woman that had a bad history, she is scared most of the time of her murder, her guilt makes her experience on the island ten times worse. Her murder was a horrible one, she was involved in a dramatic story that ended very badly for her. She spent most of her days watching a child of Hugo That she was in love with. She got tired of watching the kid and wanted to be with Hugo. Everyday the boy asked to swim out to the sandbar. One day she convinced the boy to swim out there. She knew he would die, she tried to play it off. She wanted to use this to get to Hugo. This plan failed miserably and she was accused of murder. When she was on the island she always thought about Hugo and the boy. They haunted her, when's he was in the bathroom and the seaweed touched her neck she went crazy. She thought the child was going to kill her, and she also thought Hugo was with her. Vera died from hanging herself, she was convinced she was by herself on the island. When she hung herself Wargrave didn't have to lift a finger. Vera thought Hugo was in the room and she killed herself.