BACKGROUND INFORMATION • And then there were none was published on

November 6, 1939. (Before the start of

WWII).

• Takes place in 1930s Britain.

• Christie referred to this novel as the most

difficult novel she has written in her career.

• The novel has gone through a change of

titles after it has been published due to the
acceptance of some words in the English
language.

• The novel is part of the crime/mystery genre.

• When first published, the novel received a

flood of positive reviews because of
Christie's use of mystery and plot twists.
ACKGROUND OF THE AUTHOR Agatha Christie

• Is an English novel writer, short story writer, and

playwright.

• Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born September

5, 1890, in Torquay, England.

• Christie is one of the best-selling novelists of all

time. She is often referred to as "The Queen of
Mystery"

• Two of her most famous novels are Murder on the

Orient Express and "And Then there Were none " .
SYMBOLS

• The Storm

• The mark on Judge Wargraves Forehead.

• Food

CHARACTERS
 Anthony James Marston

• A rich and handsome but irresponsible boy.

• He killed two small children in a car accident

but shows no remorse.

• Reckless driver and thinks highly of himself.

• People admire him for his good looks and nice

car.

• He is a "creature of sensation and of action." He

seems very self-centered.
 Mrs. Ethel Rogers

• Wife of butler and cook, Mr.

Rogers.

• She plotted with her husband and

withholds a former employer's
medicine in order to cause her death
and collect an inheritance.

• "A pale ghost of a woman." "She

looked like a woman who walked in
mortal fear."
General John Gordon MacArthur

• A retired war hero

• He finds that his wife was having an

affair with an officer under his
command, then sent the man on a
mission that would almost certainly
lead to his death.

• Probably military.

• He thinks he is going to the island to

hang out with his old military buddies.
 Mr. Thomas Rogers

• Butler by profession
domineering husband, persuaded
his wife to withhold a former
employer's medicine in order to
cause her death and collect an
inheritance.

• The island's butler and looks

respectable.
 Emily Caroline Brent

• She is a ruthless religious lady who

dismissed her teenage maid for
becoming pregnant out of wedlock
who died later.

• Strict and looks down to others,

especially younger people.

• She thinks she's better than

everyone else.
 Lawrence John Wargrave (Mr.
Justice Wargrave)

• He is a recently retired judge.

• Wargrave is a highly intelligent old man who
has strange psychological issues.
• He thinks he's going to Soldier Island to take a
vacation.
• He's known for getting juries to convict people
on trial.
• He's influential and persuasive.
• He thinks that all women are undependable.
• Describe as "wizened and ugly with a frog-like
face", tortoise-like neck, and pale shrewd little
eyes.
 Dr. Edward George Armstrong

• He is a timid doctor who operated on

a patient while drunk, resulting in his
death.

• He is being paid to be a doctor on the

island.

• He views the island as "a world from

which you might never return."
 William Henry Blore

• A corrupt police inspector who gave

false evidence in court resulting in
an innocent man being convicted
and sentenced to life in prison,
where he died a year later.
• He has a list of every person on the
island.
• He's trying to come up with his
backstory.
• He is going by the name Mr. Davis
and says he is from South Africa.
• An alert and observant.
Philip Lombard/ Captain Phillip
Lombard

• Former military man.

• A strange, mysterious and
resourceful man who seems to
have been a mercenary soldier in
Africa.
• He's being paid to perform a task
on the island.
• He worked some illegal jobs in the
past.
• A world traveler.
• He is described as being "like a
panther."
 Vera Elizabeth
Claythorne

• A young woman on leave from

her position as a sports
mistress at a girls' school.

• She has been hired to go to the

island to perform a job.

• She is going to be U.N.O's

secretary.
 U.N OWEN

• Mysterious person who

invited people to the island.
LESSON/THEMES

• The Administration of Justice

• The effects on guilt on ones conscience

• The Danger of Reliance on class distinction

MOTIFS

• The "Then little Indian Poems"

• Dreams and Hallucinations

• Animal Imagery
SYMBOLS

• The Storm

• The mark on Judge Wargraves Forehead.

• Food
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