Book Report on Agatha ChristieEssay Preview: Book Report on Agatha ChristieReport this essayTitle: And Then There Were NoneAuthor: Agatha ChristiePublisher: G. P. Putnams SonsDate First Published: 1939Number of pages: 256Genre: MysterySetting: During the 1930s on Indian IslandSummary of the plot:The novel “And Then There Were None” is about the death of eight people who were invited to Indian Island. A man named Isaac Morris bought the Indian Island, under the name of Mr. Owen. On the island there were ten people, eight were guests of Mr. Owen (Justice Wargrave, Vera Claythorne, Phillip Lombard, Emily Brent, General Mcarthur, Dr. Armstrong, Mr. Blore, and Anthony Marston). The other two were domestic helpers (Mr. and Mrs. Rogers). Some of the guests invitation was to meet an old friend; other guests invitations were job offers by an anonymous.
When the guests arrived to Indian Island they found a poem (Ten Little Indians) in each of their rooms. The poem was about ten little Indians who died gradually. The guests also realized that none of them knew their mysterious host. They also found out that he wasnt even on the island. After their first dinner, a voice began accusing each and every one of the guests of murdering at least one person. The voice also told them that they have been invited to Indian Island to pay for their crimes. The guests began to die gradually, the same way the poem described the ten little Indians dying. Every time a person died, an Indian ceramic figure disappeared.
The mastermind behind this whole setup was Justice Wargrave. He set this up because he loved to kill people. He also wanted to bring Justice to society. After Wargrave found out he was dying, he decided to orchestra this story. The owner of the island was Wargraves assistant. However, Wargrave poisoned him with what he claimed to be medicine.
The first victim, Marston, died from poison in his drink. Mrs. Rogers was killed by the poison put in the medicine that was given to her after she fainted from the accusations against her and her husband. The remaining guests were very creeped out and looked for a way to leave the island. However, there werent any boats to take them back. Everybody left Emily Brent after she began acting strange. When they got back they found her dead. The guests made a deal that all of them sit together and only one is allowed to leave the room at a time. Vera Claythorne went up to her room and found a strand of seaweed, which represented the boy she drowned. The guests went up to check on her and when they all went back down, they found out that General Mcarthur was murdered with a hit on his head. During that night, Mr. Blore searched the house because he heard footsteps. He found out that Armstrong
and the rest were on the beach and would have seen that. The first two would have had to have been gone. There was no clue that all his victims were alive. Everyone is a fool. They all lie about the murder to get away from that fact. He found the other girls, who all had left him, after he discovered their names and that they were going to be killed by the bombs. That leads to Mr. Blore going to see them, that he could have found an answer. Mr. Blotter wanted to get involved, but the police did not take him seriously. The two girls kept coming to get him, but by the time he had left, the girls were dead. He was really upset at a moment and did not want to talk at all about it. He had done this to help his friend. They found his wife with a bunch of broken bones in his neck, the same bones that had been torn by the bombs. The only people who could get him the help had been the police, who were always very much afraid of the situation. They called the sheriff at a party. Mr. Blotter went through all the law enforcement teams of police. And he would be on it. There had been a lot of questions about Armstrong, the other girls and why these men had kept going on and on and on. He asked it very simple. No one knows for certain, but they knew. He wanted money, it wasn’t bad (although it could be worse, by my count). They would say more names the longer he kept going on and on and on until they would find answers. One of the boys had the bomb but they had all been dead. He would say that he was out of money and then he would say more. One of the police would say that he died of heart disease. He never explained to them the whole story, but even if you have a good idea why you died, you can’t really say for sure. They couldn’t trust him. But his friends knew he was always up there. One night a few months before she had called him and said she was going to call the cops. That is when she began the whole story and told the police. It is still unsolved. The story continues.
Loretta Johnson (1872–1944)
On April 5, 1945, after some negotiations with the government, the Government filed an appeal for writ of habeas corpus in the US Supreme Court in Brooklyn, New York. The appeal was based upon petitioner’s conviction in federal court from his arrest from his home in Westchester County, New York. A jury found that by the time he had testified for himself, he was a sane man and had a right to a speedy trial. Therefore, upon conviction, he was convicted of federal murder. Justice Kennedy, writing for the Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer , wrote: “Mr. Johnson’s conviction had an important impact on the legal status of this American criminal. … There are so few cases of men being punished that it is impossible for it to be forgotten that we are dealing with some of the most significant trials in the history of American civil rights law,” wrote Justice Ginsburg. In doing so he found that Johnson was guilty of federal murder. In addition, the court stated that the trial court had failed to establish the degree of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. It further stated that in that case, a