Be Careful Who You Trust

Authors Note: This piece is for my District Assessment. It is about the novel "And Then There Were None" and how you have to be careful who you trust.

Trust is a key element of life. You never know who you can trust, ever. Throughout the novel “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie is based upon trust. Ten people get invited by a mysterious man for vacation on Indian Island. They notice that there are statues of ten little Indians and the poem Ten Little Indians in each room not knowing why. Later each visitor disappears by murder one by one…. And then there were none. But do we really know who the suspect is?

The ten people on the island are in a tough situation. They don’t know who to trust because of the mysterious murdering. What if it was their closest friend killing everyone and what if you were next? You can’t even trust your best friend, especially in this case. Some people in life actually care what you have to say, but others are just curious.

We need to choose who we can confide and believe in. If the ten people on the island want to stay alive, they need to be aware of those who are truly loyal, but they need to choose wisely, for one out of the ten is a murderer. Everyone in the house has their suspicions. Having no trust makes all of them a nervous wreck, making each of them more susceptible of being the next victim of murder. Having no trust only digs us a deeper hole, and when we trust the wrong person, you never know what the outcome will be.

This novel reminds me of the movie The Woman In Black. That movie is about a man that gets asked to work in a haunted building alone. Little did he know that the whole city has been haunted by the woman in black, this started after her sister had killed her son. At the end, the main mans little boy comes to the city and gets possessed to kill himself... He shouldn’t have trusted the man that brought him to the city because what if the whole thing was a set up?

“And Then There Were None” is a book that teaches us not to trust anyone. Trust is something that is so valuable to life, that if we don’t have it, we can fail in something that matters greatly to us. We need to pick and choose which ones we want to believe in, but we have to be careful. This novel also relates to The Woman In Black because it is a haunted city just like the island and it has to do with trusting. This was a good mystery novel with easy reading for all ages. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to be on the edge of their seat the entire book.