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And Then There Were None Essay

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"I like killing people because it is so much fun. It is more fun than killing wild game in the forrest because man is the most dangerous animal of them all." - Zodiac Killer. While And Then There Were None was a story about finding righteousness from the law, the killer wanted the “killers” to serve their sentence that he thought was justifiable. Superstitious is a book about a college grad student who is trying to get her psychology degree while trying to get over her last relationship but falls in love with the charming Professor Liam O’Connor while many brutal murders are taking place. While there are many differences in the different books ranging from the time that they take place to how the author writes about the killings of the characters. …show more content…

Stine did it was either one of the best written by him or it was the worst book he’s written. Personally I think it was a great novel compared to And Then There Were None it was way more graphic, something that I appreciate greatly from an author of the murder mystery genre. One major difference, would be how they set the murders up. R.L. Stine places you with the character that is about to be killed, whereas Agatha Christie places you with the survivors until the murder has already occurred. The authors styles of writing also differ from one another, Agatha Christie writes with a feeling of dread with her suspicion, and R.L. Stine writes with a sense of dread with his suspicion. There are however certain similarities between the two authors writing styles, they both switched between the characters in the chapters. Both of them had their books developed into a movie in the 1900’s, And Then There Were None was made into a movie in 1945 and Superstitious was made into a movie in 1995. They both set the scene with a little back story before getting into the story itself . The authors told the story from the point of view of each character throughout the story, even if that character was only in the book for a chapter or

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