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Joseph Dotta
Starry
H English
15 September 2015
And Then There Were None Essay

I have a definite sadistic delight in seeing or causing death(Christie 285). Mr. Justice
Wargrave was the person who said that in the epilogue in the book And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie. Mr. Justice Wargrave had wanted to kill for some time so he invited nine
other people and killed them one by one on Soldier Island. Wargrave had wanted his murder to
be on a grand scale and almost unsolvable. He wrote a letter describing how he had done it but
he put it in a bottle in the ocean. The ones invited all had done something involved with a death
but none served time for them. Wargrave believed each one was guilty and killed them from least
guilty to most guilty. Wargraves case could be considered the desire to kill or vigilante justice.
Mr. Justice Wargrave was a smoker, pale, and quite possibly one of the oldest on the island.
He had succeeded in his plan of vigilante justice for each character. As for how he got them all to
the island he wrote them a letter under the name Owens. He also wrote himself a letter to avoid
immediate suspicion. He did use his real name on the island and told the truth about his former
occupation. How he was partially described in the epilogue did not stray from the main storyline,
but of course the motive for vigilante justice against all of them was kept secret.
There are not many things to learn from Wargrave that are positive. One thing learned is to
stay determined and on track with the goal in sight. And I determined to commit not one
murder, but murder on a grand scale(Christie 289). Something to learn positive about Wargrave
is that he did not settle for one murder he wanted much more. Something to take away from that

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is to set personal goals higher. Wargrave was cunning with a plan and because of that he
succeeded.

Works Cited
Christie, Agatha. And Then There Were None. New York: Harper Collins Publisher, 1940.
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